The reprise of Surprise?

Jawgap

"The Surprise is not old; no one would call her old. She has a bluff bow, lovely lines. She's a fine sea-boat: weatherly, stiff and fast … very fast, if she's well handled. No, she's not old; she's in her prime."

.....and more than good enough for a potential sequel....


https://twitter.com/russellcrowe/status/935076365065269248

....great if it happened - I always wondered why it never did.

mikhail

Great movie, and there's loads of great material for a sequel. It hasn't had one because the original was fairly expensive to make and while it did okay, it was no cash cow.

elWizard

This would be incredible if true, but there's no chance Peter Weir would come back for it is there?
Wiki tells me he's 73, not that old. Oh sure, someone else could probably do a fine, different job, but c'mon, he's Peter Frickin Weir; my fear is they might try for someone "classy" like Joe Wright or bloody Sam Mendes or someone like that...
And if, less likely, it turns out they're thinking of replacing Paul Bettany's Maturin, well, such a project would be dead to me.

I know there's 20 books in the series but I don't envy whoever gets the adaptation gig; I realised, reading the books after seeing the film, that they took incidents and bits and pieces from like the first 10 to make up the original. Still, there's plenty left of course.

Um, Is the Croweser trying to pastiche the O'Brian style in that tweet? Cringe!