Mar 4 2010Marco Polo: The Movie, 'National Treasure'-Style
No, not the swimming pool game of your childhood (though that, and Red Rover and Red Light/Green Light, will be movies soon enough). Marco Polo, the Venetian merchant and explorer, is going to be a movie, now. But don't worry: this isn't going to be some boring thing based on "facts" and "history"; this shit is all awesome and made up!
Warner Bros. is traveling back to the 13th century journey of Marco Polo for a feature, attaching Francis Lawrence ("I Am Legend") to direct and setting up the project with Erwin Stoff at 3 Arts Entertainment.Untitled project's seen as a fantasy-adventure rather than a biopic, with the logline under wraps. "We see this as something that takes place in the Orient of our imagination amid the cultural clash of the East and the West," [writer Adam] Cooper told Daily Variety.
Yay, I love the Orient of our imagination! So much better than the actual, boring Orient that no one refers to as the "Orient" anymore. I prefer my Orient to be vaguely racist, stuffed with ninjas, samurais, and geisha, and constantly playing that song movies always play when you're in China.
Reader Comments
1. George Costanza - March 4, 2010 12:59 PM
I'm still waiting for "Ponce De Leon"
C'mon people, GEORGE IS GETTING UPSET!
2. merilhepburn - March 4, 2010 1:12 PM
Finally a movie for blind mermaids! And mermen of course.
3. John - March 4, 2010 2:29 PM
So basically they want to make an Asia themed Terry Giliam movie that isn't very good and claim it's a historical period piece.
4. cbobgo - March 4, 2010 3:40 PM
I know that this will reveal me as being "old", but does anyone else remember the Marco Polo mini-series that aired in 1982? I remember watching it on TV several times and thinking it was incredible.
Of course, that was mainly because I was 13 and I think there was like 1 second of side-boob halfway through
5. Leonidas - March 4, 2010 4:30 PM
Maa-aarcoo??
6. Jas - March 4, 2010 11:20 PM
Pooooooooolooooooo
7. Jas - March 4, 2010 11:21 PM
Nice post the BTW!!
Thanks IWS!
8. Sam - March 5, 2010 7:16 AM
The eggheads in academia have conspired to make history as boring as possible.
Did you know that Marco Polo was a master of kung-fu, and they had industrial music back then (that played during the fight scenes)? And the conflict between east and west wasn't based on trade. It was the neverending struggle for a secret artifact that granted unlimited POWER to whoever possessed it.
Spices, silk, and opium? Pfffffft.
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