Tom Hanks as Caesar

[Anonymous]

Anyone heard any updates on this?<br>
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filmforce.ign.com/article...?fromint=1<br>
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Has it died in preproduction?<br>
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Britannicus <p></p><i></i>

[Robert Vermaat]

Tom Hanks as Caesar:<br>
"Mama always said Gaul was like a box a chocolates, never know what you're gonna get."....<br>
<img src="http://www.fectio.org.uk/tom_caesar.jpg" style="border:0;"/> <p>Valete,<br>
Valerius/Robert<br>
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[Theodosius the Great]

I hope Hanks can convincingly feign an English accent<br>
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I shutter when hearing an American accent from an actor playing a Roman<br>
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[Anonymous]

No, we'll just get the villainous Romans with British accents...... <p></p><i></i>

[Anonymous]

Maybe it should be Sean Connery as Caesar.<br>
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I'll tahk mah gauls shaken not shtirred.. <p>Valete,<br>
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Dave/Cicero<br>
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[Anonymous]

Heh. ACtually, I hope if he plays Caesar he won't *try* an accent. I prefer no accent to a badly done accent any day.<br>
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Besides, would Caesar have a british accent? What did a Roman accent sound like anyway? A mix of italian/german/british/french?<br>
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WoW!<br>
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Uale!<br>
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Gaius <p></p><i></i>

[Theodosius the Great]

Quote:</em></strong><hr>I hope if he plays Caesar he won't *try* an accent. I prefer no accent to a badly done accent any day<hr><br>
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I assume you mean an American neutral accent when you say "no accent". I agree with that.<br>
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Quote:</em></strong><hr>Besides, would Caesar have a british accent? <hr><br>
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Well, I said "English accent". By that I mean a high London accent. Not Irish brogue, Cockney, Scottish or Welch accent. (Just my personal preference)<br>
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The answer to your question is of course "No". But if you want complete accuracy you'd have to do what Mel Gibson did with "Passion of the Christ" - all in Latin (plus other ancient languages). Fine with me, but it won't happen.<br>
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It's just that when I hear an American accent from an actor playing a Roman or a Greek it just kills the fantasy.<br>
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[Anonymous]

Oh come on, I'm sure Caesar would sound GREAT with a slow, southern Texas drawl...just like John Wayne!<br>
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I can just see it now "Welllllll, Veni, Vidi, Vici pilllllgrim".<br>
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Speaking of religious movies, did anyone see the movie about Christ that had John Wayne as the centurion who escorted Jesus to the cross? Can't remember the name, but I think Teli Savalis (sp?) was Pontius Pilat.<br>
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At the end he looks up at Jesus and says, "He truly was the son of God" in an accent only John Wayne could pull off. I was flipping channels about 15 years ago and WHAM! I heard his drawl and what he said...it took me 5 minutes to figure out that he was a Roman soldier in a religious movie.<br>
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And yes, I am a big John Wayne fan.<br>
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Britannicus <p></p><i></i>

[John Maddox Roberts]

That movie was "The Greatest Story Ever Told," a pretty hubristic title if you ask me. Max Von Sydow was Jesus. Telly Savalas later said that he first shaved his head for that role. If it hadn't been for that movie, Kojac might have had hair, which is horrible to contemplate. <p></p><i></i>

[Marcus Seneca Cato]

John Wayne did play Genghis Khan once... movie called the Conqueror (I think).<br>
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Wu ellO thare Batu <p></p><i></i>

[Robert Vermaat]

Yep, and it killed him, as I recall.<br>
Because during the filming of this movie, the crew and cast rode through fallout from nuclear testing that had taken place two years earlier..<br>
Of the 220 persons who worked on The Conqueror on location in Utah in 1955, 91 had contracted cancer as of the early 1980s and 46 died of it, including stars John Wayne, Susan Hayward, and Agnes Moorehead, and director Dick Powell. Experts say under ordinary circumstances only 30 people out of a group of that size should have gotten cancer. The cause? No one can say for sure, but many attribute the cancers to 1953 radioactive fallout from nuclear tests in nearby Nevada.<br>
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Valerius/Robert<br>
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[Theodosius the Great]

Wow, what an article.<br>
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I saw that movie not too long ago - YUCK .<br>
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I hate it when they use white actors to play mongoloids (e.g. : Huns & Monguls). It never works. I think Yul Brenner could've pulled it off though. He was really exotic-looking ; he could've played Attila the Hun or Genghis Khan, IMO. <p><img src="http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/RCasti998/CHI-RO2.jpg" style="border:0;"/></p><i></i>

[Anonymous]

And do you know the most ironic thing about his dying of cancer from that?<br>
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Well, two ironic things...first was that he had already 'beaten' lung cancer years earlier and was diagnosed as being 'in the clear', and second, when he was dying, Congress awarded him a medal of outstanding citizenship...I think they felt guilty for having not done anything to investigate the possible health hazards of anyone using that site...and they were greatful he was such a 'good American' and wouldn't turn around and sue the pants off the gov. for what happened.<br>
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Britannicus<br>
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[Octavianvs]

I dont think tom hanks will be able to pull off caesar. not that hes not a good actor he is not the type to be caesar. actually the connery thing would be closer much more so than Hanks. Anyone else think of a better caesar

[Lucius Aurelius Metellus]

I dont think tom hanks will be able to pull off caesar. not that hes not a good actor he is not the type to be caesar. actually the connery thing would be closer much more so than Hanks. Anyone else think of a better caesar

Well...except for the fact that I think Sean Connery is quite a bit too old to play Caesar...