Richard Branson to Produce Christopher Columbus Biopic, COLUMBUS; McG Attached to Direct

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Billionaire Richard Branson is in negotiations to acquire T.S. Nowlin’s script, Columbus, which is a biopic of explorer Christopher Columbus. According to Deadline, McG is attached to direct and produce. Eight years ago, Hollywood raced to get Christopher Columbus pics into theaters in order to commemorate/capitalize-on the 500th anniversary of his “discovery” of America. Both 1492: Conquest of Paradise and Christopher Columbus: The Discovery tanked because, unsurprisingly, no one really cares enough about Christopher Columbus to pay to see a movie about him. Deadline says that this new version will be in the style of 300 and that perhaps advances in visual effects and 3D will lure audiences back. I disagree. Columbus is boring and giving him a slow-motion 3D movie just makes him boring in slow-motion and in three dimensions.

McG is currently directing the action romantic comedy This Means War starring Chris Pine, Tom Hardy, and Reese Witherspoon. Branson is currently trying to launch rich people into space with his Virgin Galactic Airways.

Dogg

Whoa, that picture of Branson looks CG.
Elitist Prick

Columbus had no definite way of knowing if one could reach any sort of land by sailing West and risked the lives of the crews of three ships to satisfy his mad dream. He also initiated the European rush-of-conquest of the New World, not to mention to genocide of many of the ethnicities living there already. Even if he was a major tool and delusional assbag, how is he boring?
- Ringbearer1420
  
  Well, he’s boring because he already had a host of films made about him, his own holiday, and he get’s discussed in nearly every history class.
  Magellan, Cook, Drake, their a lot of explorers who haven’t had so much as a TV movie and whose stories are fascinating. And Columbus is such a gray figure, Cortez was a much better assbag.
Ringbearer1420

How about a movie about the Indians and how they suffered when he came, or how about a movie about Leif Erikson, so discovered Newfoundland, which is a little closer to north America that the Caribbean and most likely landed in Virginia and Maryland. Either way the viking own Columbus.
Or how about a epic about Sir Francis Drake, privater and professional badass.
Anonymous

As long as they get the story right, sure, why not.
bigLbo

I dont think they should do this movie cause you already know that they are not going to keep the story realistic at all! They are not going to show what he truly did to the indians and if they are not going to show that then know body is going to want to see it!
Abel Cardoso

Dear Sir,
Be honest on treating this subject so there has been a lot of mistakes about CRISTÓVÃO COLON (not Cristóphoro Colimbus), the PORTUGUESE who (it is said) arrived first in America at the Catholics Kings’ service.
Read the message sent by the ASSOCIATION DR. MANUEL LUCIANO DA SILVA, I subscribe myself and read the books existing in Portugal and Brasil to know about this so important figure.
Many books, demonstrating this thesis, have been written, and I can send you a copy of one of them free.
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Evan

Way late to this party, but I think Columbus is interesting if you focus on the cool parts– how he alienated all the Spanish governors of the Indies, so much so that they denied him entry to their ports. That’s the part of the story that people might care about– hearing about a crazy and cruel visionary who was generally loathed by all of his compatriots.
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