Comments on: Steven Spielberg’s Next Could Be ‘Montezuma’ With Javier Bardem, Based On Script By ‘Spartacus’ Writer Dalton Trumbo

By: MJ

MJ — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:23:59 +0000

I think you're jumping the gun a bit, perhaps not without good reason given Hollywoood history, but take a step back. They aren't using Trumbo's screenplay, they've put Steven Zallian to work at adapting it. Also you say you respect Spielberg, then remember what recent efforts of his that took on real life events have been like in Munich and Lincoln, one sided and manipulative? Hardly.

By: Juayitl

Juayitl — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:23:59 +0000

This sounds dreadful. Although I have huge respect for Spielberg and Bardem, I'm worried about the antropological misrepresetnations of a 50 year old script written by an US-american focusing only on CortÃS (that's the correct spelling) and, obviously, a narrow western-civilization-only point of view. I am mexican, I'm a film buff as much as a history buff and I've studied The Conquest Period for decades now (it's part of my identity and other 130 million mexicans out there) and I can assure you, this story cannot be properly told in just one movie without being a washed-down and manipulative version of what it happened. CortÃ©s was no intellectual, he abandoned his abogacy studies in Salamanca and decided to come to the american continent as a "cane entrepeneur" or whatever worked for him. He was smart for sure but more manipulative than enlightned.. so to say it more precisely, he was only looking to exploit the land at all costs, not to make a spiritual conversion (THAT was his method). So I'd be very skeptical about the way this movie could come out… as propaganda? The world needs a revision of its history (that's why it's falling apart) and quite honestly I don't trust american filmmakers for that matter.

By: Truth Powell

Truth Powell — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:23:59 +0000

Spielberg needs to do a Superhero movie. He is a master of action and adventure and if he gave the studios a huge hit, he can get funding for movies like this and Lincoln (Yes I wonder why a man with over $100 million can't fund his own movie but that's another monster).

Imagine Captain America 3 directed by Spielberg set in WW2 with Nazis as the villains. It would be amazing.

By: Deardevil

Deardevil — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:23:59 +0000

Sounds awesome. I'd rather watch this than some sci-fi spectacle or another war film. Bring the epic adventure back, Steve.