That classic swashbuckler, CAPTAIN BLOOD remade!
73 years ago, before any Obsessed With Film reader was likely to have been born (do we have any over 70's reading... that would be cool!) an adventure movie quite unlike any other was released in theatres. It was promoted as thus...
THE MOST MAGNIFICENT & THRILLING SEA ADVENTURE EVER FILMED!
The movie was the awesome titled Captain Blood, the first movie made by the trio Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone and director Michael Curtiz, and one of the greatest adventure films of the 20th century.
That was of course three years before the trio made The Adventures of Robin Hood, the ABSOLUTE greatest adventure movie of the 20th century!
Anyway, in this remake obsessed land, the word out of Variety is that veteran filmmaker Phillip Noyce (Catch a Fire, Clear and Present Danger, The Bone Collector, The Saint, Patriot Games, Dead Calm) is adapting a remake with a view to direct at Warner Bros.
That's all we know right now, except that it's been setup as a potential U.K/Australia production.
Nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards, Errol Flynn in one of the most impressive leading role debuts in film history, starred as a doctor wrongly sentenced to slavery in the Caribbean, where he and his comrades become avenging pirates.
The movie (which was actually based on a earlier book by Rafael Sabatini) was noted for it's epic sense of adventure and terrific swordsmanship from it's two stars, as can be seen in this terrific scene below. Though massive spoilers, you have to watch this as it kicks the ass out of any sword fight in any of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies...
Noyce is currently in pre-production on Mary Queen of Scots which will see American Scarlett Johansson play the famous Scot queen, and he has a few more projects on his potential schedule including Edwin A. Salt (a C.I.A. thriller passed on by Peter Berg, which still has Tom Cruise set to star) The Art of Making Money, and others.
It may be he is too busy to helm this and hopefully it will never get made. I can't see how they would be unable to resist cloning Pirates of the Caribbean and forgetting about what made the original so damn great. Great storytelling and great acting.