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Mel Gibson and Leonardo DiCaprio join forces for Viking flick

15 December 2009 2 Comments

Posted by Sherwin

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What do we know about the Vikings? They came from Scandinavia. Check. They wore helmets with thorns. Check. They were great travelers— raiding, trading and settling in other lands. Check. Oh, did I mention Brett Favre sucks?

All kidding aside, Norse history is going to hit in a big way next year. First, there’s Thor, a live-action flick featuring the Marvel Comics character set to be released in May. And now, according to Variety, Mel Gibson is slated to direct a film about the Vikings starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

The movie is untitled at the moment, but will feature a screenplay written by William Monahan who penned The Departed and Body of Lies, two motion pictures that Leo had starred in.

The principals won’t reveal many details but we can presume this will be a bloody action epic. I haven’t seen a decent Viking flick since Richard Fleischer’s The Vikings (1958) so I’m very excited about this upcoming film.

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  • renee

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  • renee

    the viking men wore jewlery and the viking women wore jewellery, the men wore linen clothes and the women wore linen clothes, they also wore leather and faux furs derived from linens. the vikings were farmers and crop sharers, the vikings pickled all their meats and dehydrated all that they grew and shared and had coming in from their crop shares. the vikings lived without disease and with medicines. the vikings are from europe, they are anglo saxon, they were sailers and each marriage typically produced two children, a male and a female. life span was typically up to 73 years. children also had their own jewlery, jewellery and clothes. they lived in tight communities of typically altogether 72 people, even split with males and females. religion was mythology about the borders of existence.