As I don’t have the time to see and post any movie reviews until *at least* Monday night, I’ll just write something short for tonight. It has to do with this article from chud.com.
In short, it deals with a movie that was filmed in 1992 involving Genghis Khan and it had some famous faces attached to it. Problem is, despite the fact that the budget was either 45 million or 55 million bucks (depends on who’s telling the story), they ran out of money either way and it wasn’t until just this year (!) that it was finished by director Ken Annakin (he directed, amongst other things, Swiss Family Robinson and Battle of the Bulge; yes, he was 94 when he passed away a few months ago) and “soon” it’s supposed to come out to DVD.
That’s interesting enough, but note that it has Charlton Heston and Pat Morita in the cast, so you get to see something new from these late actors. The guy who played the title role of this motion picture, though, will shock you. It’s Richard Tyson. Don’t recognize the name? I know him best for being the villain in Kindergarten Cop. Yes, this guy. No offense to him, but he looks SO European that he could never pass for any sort of Asian, let alone a Mongol. It’s even more ridiculous than The Conqueror, that mid 50’s movie where John Wayne (!) played Khan. Yes I’ve seen that and it IS as bad as you may have heard. I’ll need to rent it again from the library so that I can talk about it more in depth here, and how it was so putrid and how it allegedly caused cancer for many of the cast members due to where they shot it, and some of the howlingly goofy dialogue that Wayne uttered.
Anyway, even better is that the upcoming Khan motion picture has a trailer out already and it’s something else, to say the very least. Seeing CHARLTON HESTON as a Mongol is pretty laughable. Thus, I can’t wait to see this flick ASAP.
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