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Today, in Tunisia....
...filming began on a project I was sure was dead as a doornail.
According to a couple of different news outlets, location shooting begins this week in Tunisia on Tales of the Ancient Empire, a sword-and-sorcery action epic directed by Albert Pyun and starring Kevin Sorbo, Christopher Lambert, and Lee Horsley, among others.
So what?
Well, if you're a lover of trashy B-movies (I am) and a huge nerd with a long memory (like I even need to demonstrate THOSE credentials) then perhaps you, too, will remember that this is the long-promised sequel to Pyun's 1980's epic The Sword and the Sorcerer.
I'm sort of torn between being overjoyed and being appalled. But Lee Horsley sure is a good sport for coming back for another turn in the loincloth.... last I heard, he was making a good living writing Westerns.
No word on Richard Moll returning, but I have hopes.
- Posted on October 13, 2008 @ 07:57 AM
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Andrew Collins
October 13, 2008 at 8:50 am
Sweet! I just saw Sword & The Sorcerer recently for the first time in years and it wasn't as bad as I remembered it being. I was always thrown off by the announcement at the end of the film for a sequel that never happened, but it's nice to know that's finally being rectified.
Greg Burgas
October 13, 2008 at 9:01 am
Kevin Sorbo, Christopher Lambert, Richard Moll (possibly), AND Lee Horsley? Holy crap, that sounds awesome. Trashy, but awesome!
Scavenger
October 13, 2008 at 9:41 am
Hercules, Highlander, and (Matt) Huston team up and kick H?
Ha cha cha!
Melton
October 13, 2008 at 10:22 am
Considering that Pyun hasn't made even a trashy good movie since, my hopes aren't very high. That, however, does not mean my butt won't be in the seat when it opens (or more than likely drops on dvd).
Now if only we can get that other promised '80s sequel, "Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League" going...
Brad Curran
October 13, 2008 at 3:41 pm
I have an unholy love of his movie "Mean Guns". I'm not saying it was good or trashy good, even, but still. I think the combo of Ice-T, Lambert, and a salsa music soundtrack are what did it. Well, that and Tina Cote. There was that. Never seen Sword and the Sorcerer, but I am a big fan of the lusty epic. Pretty much my favorite kind of epic, really.
Teebore
October 14, 2008 at 7:19 am
I agree; I think the world needs more "lusty epics" proudly hailed as such.
Nancy
October 14, 2008 at 8:33 am
*does handstands and backflips*
WOOHOO!!! I love all them men's. ;-}
Esp Sorbo and Lambert. Can't wait for this movie!