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Three Filmmakers Race To Do Battle Of Hastings Movies
Almost 1,000 years after King Harold took an arrow in the eye, one of the most dramatic turning points in English history is finally to receive the cinema treatment.Three feature films, with big-name backers and creative teams, are preparing to refight the battle of Hastings. They all plan to show the clash between Harold and William as the falling out of two comrades, using the trusted cinema combination of violence and contrasting love lives. Other key battles in English history -- such as Agincourt, Waterloo, Trafalgar, the Spanish Armada and countless fights from the two world wars -- have been filmed, but Hastings has been ignored. "It has everything -- a big-scale event, a turning point in European history and great human stories," said Tom Holland, the historian and author of Millennium. At the core of all three films will be the friendship of two "buddies" in which Harold goes to help William, Duke of Normandy, in battles against the Bretons before they fall out and come to blows at Hastings shortly afterwards. The English king was killed just months after coming to the throne, opening the way to the Norman conquest. Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-12-21 |
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