Why is there no interest among Hollywood types to make movie in lreland based on lei

Fighting leprechaun 20

Brian boru, Rory O'connor , red Hugh O'Neil , etc .

Even mythology based warriors like , cu chuliann and finn mac cool.
Ect.

There seems to be a large interest in Scottish and even English histriocal films from that time , but not Eire?

Am l the only one that notices this , what's the reason for this ?

Not sure this is the right category.

Pretty sure the 9 years war is fairly important in world history and so is boru , so why no interest ? Even in lreland no one even knows what lm talking about ..

Black Swan

Finn Mac Cool, Steven Aldridge director, with actor Cian Murchu as Finn Mac Cool. B-movie. Cannes Film Festival 13 May 2005. Perhaps a Hollywood remake if producers could be found, and released on Paddy's Day in America, which would speak to the millions there claiming Irish culture and ancestry?

Black Swan

Fighting leprechaun 20 wrote: »

Not sure this is the right category.

MOD: Moved to Films LOCKED so that mods may review this OP for appropriateness.

Tigger

they should make an Iron Druid movie

Technocentral

Probably because they know that they will never top that social realist classic "Darby O'Gill and the Little People"?

strelok

can we get idris elba to play cu chulainn?

FloatingVoter

No movies about Vercingetorix (France), Garibaldi (Italy) or Charlemagne (Europe) either. All three historical rather than mythical characters.
You're looking at shedloads of extras and battle scenes, getting it wrong politically (someone always has the hump), and a potential blockbuster in one country alone (Michael Collins is still the most misunderstood astronaut movie in the US).
With longform TV coming into its own, it might be feasible to cover some of these saga like characters. But universally recognisable ones like Hercules (12 easily scripted tasks and already been done), Julius Caesar and Alexander will come long before minor local tales.

Agricola

Vercingetorix would make a wonderful historical epic, theres little need to deviate from the true story at all. It's probably a little to close to Braveheart maybe.

737max

After seeing the terrible King Arthur movie with Clive Owen I tried to write a Hugh O'Neill screenplay. I thought surely I could do better than that lazy cynical b0llix Bruckheimer.
I spent months on it. It was not good. Too much narration, too much exposition, too much character amalgamation, too much politics, too many characters, too much time to compress in to a screenplay, no love story to weave in for a subplot. It wasn't a good subject for a screenplay.
I was happy with some of the scenes and subplots but on the whole it was just not a good screenplay due to the subject matter(and maybe my lack of talent).
There aren't many good historical epics out there and fewer still which are true to history.

Fighting leprechaun 20

737max wrote: »

After seeing the terrible King Arthur movie with Clive Owen I tried to write a Hugh O'Neill screenplay. I thought surely I could do better than that lazy cynical b0llix Bruckheimer.
I spent months on it. It was not good. Too much narration, too much exposition, too much character amalgamation, too much politics, too many characters, too much time to compress in to a screenplay, no love story to weave in for a subplot. It wasn't a good subject for a screenplay.
I was happy with some of the scenes and subplots but on the whole it was just not a good screenplay due to the subject matter(and maybe my lack of talent).
There aren't many good historical epics out there and fewer still which are true to history.

Wasn't red huge O'Neil married?

Fighting leprechaun 20

strelok wrote: »

can we get idris elba to play cu chulainn?

Wow he would be perfect lok