Ａｇｒｅｅｄ.He also directed \”Shanghai Knights\” and \”Fred Claus\”.Not that great films.However he seems like he wrote the script himself.I think that’s why he will direct,According his another comment in the Collider interview,probably his script not bad.

>[i]David Dobkin[/i]: \”I had this idea for almost a decade about how to reinvent it and I sat down and wrote that script over the last few years. It went out on the town about a month ago and there was an—you know I’m sure it’s been in the trades and everything—there was a big bidding war for it. Warner Bros. scooped it up and they said “we’ll make it right away,” so we are in the process of casting and crewing up the movie and you know we’re off to the races, we’re looking at a sometime in the first quarter, hopefully January, start to that.\”

But anyway,I\’m rather glad Jim Sturgess won\’t star in it.This project doesn’t sound good.

Yeah good choice. Perhaps in an experiment at a lower budget, but this just doesn\’t seem smart.

Also, the birth of democracy? Last time I checked the origins of democracy were far earlier than the 6th century, and the origins of universal rights in modern times are from the Magna Carta era centuries later. I know it\’s putting a spin on what is a myth, but this seems like a poor excuse to re-do the story.