{"id":2346,"date":"2006-03-14T07:09:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-14T07:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2006\/03\/hannibal-coming-soon-in-ancient-punic\/"},"modified":"2006-03-14T07:09:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-14T07:09:00","slug":"hannibal-coming-soon-in-ancient-punic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2006\/03\/hannibal-coming-soon-in-ancient-punic.html","title":{"rendered":"Hannibal — coming soon, in ancient Punic!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

What hath Mel Gibson wrought? He famously shot The Passion of the Christ<\/a><\/i> in Latin and Aramaic, and is now making Apocalypto<\/a><\/i> in ancient Mayan. And now, it seems, he is inspiring other<\/i> period filmmakers to pursue linguistic verisimilitude. From a report on Vin Diesel<\/a>\u2018s upcoming projects, via the Associated Press<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

Diesel is going the Mel Gibson route with the \u201cBraveheart\u201d-like epic \u201cHannibal,\u201d about the 3rd century B.C. Carthaginian leader who led an army riding elephants across the Alps in an assault on Rome.<\/p>\n

With plans to direct \u201cHannibal\u201d himself, Diesel will star in the title role, the film also will take a cue from Gibson\u2019s \u201cThe Passion of the Christ.\u201d Diesel aims to shoot the film in Greek, Latin and ancient Punic.<\/p>\n

He hopes to begin production next fall, with the film debuting in 2007.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a passion project,\u201d Diesel said. \u201cThe whole point of doing an epic auteur picture, directing an epic film, it\u2019s one thing to do the Woody Allen thing. It\u2019s another thing to do `Braveheart.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you do something like that, you want to go all the way. Usually, you want to go all the way when the subject matter or topic speaks to you so much that you have these scenes playing out in your head all the time. That\u2019s usually a pretty good indication that you need to find a way to make it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wouldn\u2019t it be nice if, one day, somebody just mixed the languages up a little? Like, say, perhaps someone could make a movie about ancient Egypt in Phoenician or Latin, and then the DVD could have a bonus feature on the controversy that erupted as ancient Egyptians protested their colonization by the Roman Empire, or something, but nobody knew what the protestors were talking about because their placards were all in hieroglyphics.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: The link between Gibson and Diesel is even closer than I thought. Contact Music<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n

VIN DIESEL has hired the ancient language expert who helped MEL GIBSON conquer Aramaic in THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST to rework his HANNIBAL biopic into Greek, Latin and Punic. The XXX star was so impressed with BILL FULCO\u2019s work on Gibson\u2019s religious epic he asked him to help him perfect other languages for his upcoming masterpiece, which is set in 200BC. He says, \u201cTo do it the way that I planned to do it, I hired a guy named Bill Fulco, who translated The Passion of The Christ from English into Aramaic to translate Hannibal The Conqueror into Greek, Latin and Punic. \u201cHopefully, taking an honest approach to making Hannibal will make the difference in trying to be as accurate as possible to the point of reconstructing a language (Punic) we haven\u2019t heard on this planet for 2,000 years.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Um, is \u201caccuracy\u201d what Gibson or Diesel movies are all about?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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