568. Hannibal: Rome's Greatest Enemy (Part 1)

My reality, he says, is I wake up and go, I haven't done the Hannibal trilogy. He first started talking about this 18 years ago. His desire to make a trilogy about Hannibal Barker, the Carthaginian general, one of the greatest wartime generals in history, the man who in 218 BC led a troop of elephants over the Alps to invade Italy. I promised myself I would try to make the Hannibal trilogy. Part of creating mythology in Riddick and creating worlds like Fiest in some bizarre way was preparation.

for the ultimate task. He will do it, he says. So that's a a profile of the actor Vin Diesel, one of your favourite actors, Tom, in Men's Health in 2021. So in that article, Vin Diesel is talking about his great ambition to do a trilogy about the life of Hannibal, the Carthaginian general, and four years on, Diesel has not yet delivered.

No, he hasn't. We're still waiting for that Hannibal masterpiece. And why on earth, Tom, when it's such an amazing story, hasn't he done it? Because it's a story that would involve him. taking an army, including 37 elephants, over the Alps, winning three of the most celebrated battles of all time, slaughtering enormous numbers of Romans, and bringing Rome almost to her knees.

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