Originally posted by Candy
Colin Farell is a great actor but i'm not really sure whether he is THE gux fpor alexander...well anyway more imagineable than leonardo diecaprio (whose idea was THAT!!!!)
Well i heard the other alexander movie wont be contiuned but maybe it's gonna come out in 2006...(well the wanted to release it 2005)
well stones laxander might be good, but maybe it's just like troy... good popcorn cinema but nothing more... 😉
a few things
heres why oliver stone picked farell:
Oliver Stone: He was the man. He's destined to play Alexander. It just felt right. He was Irish, beautiful, poetic, determined, a scrapper, a winner and frankly, very, very handsome, physically attractive, sexual. He's got a charge.
Baz Lurman is the guy doing the other Alexander project which is in production right now but is still untitled with leo dicarpio as alexander and nichole kidman as olympias
Stone's Alexander is nothing like Troy.. the battles are far more brutal, the story is more in depth, its more historical accurate
and i actually remember thinking during the movie that someones teeth looked pretty disgusting.. phillip i think off hand but i cant remember too great
thought this was interesting too from Jared Letto:
What were the battle sequences like?
Jared Leto: Insane. Very insane and I can tell you something, I'm surprised that nobody died on the movie. I really am. I really am honestly; I thought in Thailand that somebody-a good potential for someone to be killed. Not because of anyone being unsafe. Completely uncontrollable circumstances and it wasn't just the elephants, it was the horses and the elephants. Every single take we would go, I haven't seen the movie yet, but I'm sure it's still in, they would have us riding in a line through the forest, through the trees. When horses come up on trees, they get confused. They don't know which way to go. So one simple thing they'll do is switch gaits and it throws you off cause you're bareback remember with a skirt on, sandals or whatever. So they switch gaits, but not only that, we have these horses in Morocco which were the best horses in the world. They were these Spanish horses, Andalusia's, beautiful horses. Colin's was a three-generation horse or something. But, then we went to Thailand and we used the Thai Army horses or something and they were very young and skittish, and some of them were running right into trees at full speed. You wouldn't think a horse would do that but run right into a tree. They would be maybe injured for a little bit. But people would, every single take, every take, someone would come off a horse. So we'd do a take; we're galloping through, you have to gallop full speed, and it was so precarious and you wouldn't know what your horse is going to do, and you're holding on for dear life. And you're going through the trees and not only are the elephants up there and they are scaring the horses and the elephants are scared of the horses, but people were falling off, breaking legs, arms, shattering ribcages and everybody went down. It would be after every take on loudspeaker, "OK, everybody." And you'd see a horse, running off without its rider.