"Lions of Al-Rassan" to be made into a movie
gde...@gmail.com
direct the period epic "The Lions of Al-Rassan," an adaptation of a Guy
Gavriel Kay novel about the collision of religions in Spain during the
Middle Ages reports today's Variety.
Warners acquired the book which Vera Blasi ("Woman On Top", "Tortilla
Soup") is adapting into a script. The novel is a historical fantasy set
at the beginning of the Christian re-conquest of Moorish Spain. A
triangle forms between two warrior princes and a female doctor in the
fictional locale of Al-Rassan. There are allusions to the Crusades-era
religious clashes between Jewish, Catholic and Muslim factions. But the
author veils the faiths and introduces magical elements into the
historical framework.
"He has done something remarkable in imagining a very compelling world,
which has some basis in history, and yet departs in a way that adds a
kind of magical realism," Zwick said. "That is a blend I've never seen
before and feels like a different way to approach an epic story" says
Zwick who looks likely to be working on another project this year,
while "The Lions of Al-Rassan" is being written.
JJ Karhu
>Warner Bros. has attached Ed Zwick ("The Last Samurai", "The Siege") to
>direct the period epic "The Lions of Al-Rassan," an adaptation of a Guy
>Gavriel Kay novel about the collision of religions in Spain during the
>Middle Ages reports today's Variety.
Jesu Kristu!
I'm *so* there. Well. Unless the vibe is EarthSea-y.
// JJ
Thomas Womack
Even if done badly, it'll be a current-tech remake of El Cid, with great
battles raging over the plains of Spain (filmed in Morocco where the
deserts are cheaper to use and the Moorish cities less reconquista'd).
Tom
John S. Novak, III
gde...@gmail.com wrote:
> Warner Bros. has attached Ed Zwick ("The Last Samurai", "The Siege") to
> direct the period epic "The Lions of Al-Rassan," an adaptation of a Guy
> Gavriel Kay novel about the collision of religions in Spain during the
> Middle Ages reports today's Variety.
So my first thought was, "Okay, why that one and not, say, _Tigana_?"
> Warners acquired the book which Vera Blasi ("Woman On Top", "Tortilla
> Soup") is adapting into a script. The novel is a historical fantasy set
> at the beginning of the Christian re-conquest of Moorish Spain. A
> triangle forms between two warrior princes and a female doctor in the
> fictional locale of Al-Rassan. There are allusions to the Crusades-era
> religious clashes between Jewish, Catholic and Muslim factions. But the
> author veils the faiths and introduces magical elements into the
> historical framework.
And then I realized why.
One hopes the adaptation does not bend the story in service of social
commentary that Kay wasn't making-- in fact, almost certainly could
not have been making, since the book was written well before September
11, and other current events.
--
John S. Novak, III j...@cegt201.bradley.edu
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Beowulf Bolt
>
> One hopes the adaptation does not bend the story in service of social
> commentary that Kay wasn't making-- in fact, almost certainly could
> not have been making, since the book was written well before September
> 11, and other current events.
I am very, very, *very* skeptical that anything worthwile will come of
this adaptation. More so than for any other ongoing adaptation of which
I am aware, save perhaps _Watchmen_.
In short, I expect this movie to suck. Hard.
Biff
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Sean O'Hara
declared:
> Warner Bros. has attached Ed Zwick ("The Last Samurai", "The Siege") to
> direct the period epic "The Lions of Al-Rassan," an adaptation of a Guy
> Gavriel Kay novel about the collision of religions in Spain during the
> Middle Ages reports today's Variety.
>
keep their nation from abandoning the feudal system, is going to try
his hand at Guy Gavriel Kay. Yeah, that should be good.
--
Sean O'Hara | http://diogenes-sinope.blogspot.com
Fisk: The passengers should be your first concern, yet I find you
drunkenly looking on as they are attacked and killed. Well?
Rigg: They're only economy class; what's all the fuss about?
-Doctor Who
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Sean O'Hara wrote:
> In the Year of the Monkey, the Great and Powerful gde...@gmail.com
> declared:
> > Warner Bros. has attached Ed Zwick ("The Last Samurai", "The
Siege") to
> > direct the period epic "The Lions of Al-Rassan," an adaptation of a
Guy
> > Gavriel Kay novel about the collision of religions in Spain during
the
> > Middle Ages reports today's Variety.
> >
> The guy who romanticized a bunch of thuggish warlords who wanted to
> keep their nation from abandoning the feudal system, is going to try
> his hand at Guy Gavriel Kay. Yeah, that should be good.
>
more complicated than that. They did not mind most modernization, what
they did mind was the abolishment of their class and the creation of a
conscript army, or as they called it a peasant army. I think they are
wrong but no group likes to be eliminated by fiat.
Ryan Klippenstine
wrote:
>John S. Novak, III wrote:
>>
>> One hopes the adaptation does not bend the story in service of social
>> commentary that Kay wasn't making-- in fact, almost certainly could
>> not have been making, since the book was written well before September
>> 11, and other current events.
>
> I am very, very, *very* skeptical that anything worthwile will come of
>this adaptation. More so than for any other ongoing adaptation of which
>I am aware, save perhaps _Watchmen_.
Is there a word for the dreadful certainty of impending doom one
experiences while falling from a great height? I feel that in regards
to the Wachowski's "V for Vendetta" adaptation. Except that instead of
the sweet relief of death, I get to look forward to witnessing a fine
and seminal work being foully violated by a pair of pseudo-
intellectual hacks.
--
Ryan Klippenstine