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07-18-2002, 04:24 PM
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="5" color="#000099"><!- FILM TITLE START ->The Alamo<! - FILM TITLE END -></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000099"><!- SUBTITLE START ->Aragorn at the Alamo<!- SUBTITLE END -></font>
<!-BEGIN IMAGE URL -><img src="http://www.filmhobbit.com/moviereviews/images/LOTR/twotowers/viggo1.jpg" align="right" WIDTH=200 ALT="Viggo in Fellowship of the Ring"><!-END IMAGE URL -><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><!- ENTER STORY TEXT HERE -> Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers isn't the only upcoming film in which you'll find Viggo Mortenson (LOTR's Aragorn) making a stand against impossible odds. Not so surprisingly, his rising fame has led to talks between he and Ron Howard, the on again off again director of the upcoming big screen saga The Alamo.
The in-development Disney epic may have an opening for him in the role if Jim Bowie, knife fighter, land pirate, and rough and tough slave trader who was one of the big three (Davy Crocket, Jim Bowie, and Col. Travis) to perish in the 1836 siege by the Mexican army on a small garrison stationed at a Texas fort named "Alamo". Other actors potentially linked to the project are Russell Crowe as Sam Houston, Ethan Hawke as Col. William B. Travis, and Billy Bob Thorton as Davy Crocket.
If like me, you were raised deep in the heart of Texas, you've been raised with the battle of the Alamo as an important and almost mythic part of your heritage. There's not a kid in Texas that hasn't at some point sat in the back yard aruging over who would have to play Santa Ana, and who would get stuck hamming it up as the "pretty boy" Travis again. In my mind, the only decent film version of it ever done involved John Wayne, and even that has it's failures. This is a chance to do it up right.
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<!-BEGIN IMAGE URL -><img src="http://www.filmhobbit.com/moviereviews/images/LOTR/twotowers/viggo1.jpg" align="right" WIDTH=200 ALT="Viggo in Fellowship of the Ring"><!-END IMAGE URL -><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><!- ENTER STORY TEXT HERE -> Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers isn't the only upcoming film in which you'll find Viggo Mortenson (LOTR's Aragorn) making a stand against impossible odds. Not so surprisingly, his rising fame has led to talks between he and Ron Howard, the on again off again director of the upcoming big screen saga The Alamo.
The in-development Disney epic may have an opening for him in the role if Jim Bowie, knife fighter, land pirate, and rough and tough slave trader who was one of the big three (Davy Crocket, Jim Bowie, and Col. Travis) to perish in the 1836 siege by the Mexican army on a small garrison stationed at a Texas fort named "Alamo". Other actors potentially linked to the project are Russell Crowe as Sam Houston, Ethan Hawke as Col. William B. Travis, and Billy Bob Thorton as Davy Crocket.
If like me, you were raised deep in the heart of Texas, you've been raised with the battle of the Alamo as an important and almost mythic part of your heritage. There's not a kid in Texas that hasn't at some point sat in the back yard aruging over who would have to play Santa Ana, and who would get stuck hamming it up as the "pretty boy" Travis again. In my mind, the only decent film version of it ever done involved John Wayne, and even that has it's failures. This is a chance to do it up right.
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