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Alexander The Great needs a new epic series
Posted on 1/26/23 at 5:21 pm
Posted on 1/26/23 at 5:21 pm
With the budgets and quality of TV today and Alexander the Great Series would be absolutely incredible given the Game of Thrones style treatment.
You don’t even have to stray from the actual history, the guys life was incredible enough.
Season 1 - heavy focus on Phillip II, his rise to power, conquest of Greece, Macedonian court dealings. Meanwhile Alexander is growing up, taming Bucephalus, learning from Aristotle, dealing with the fallout of his mom and dad hating each other, moving away, coming back etc… Will he stay heir, won’t he. Season ends with Phillips assassination (was Alex/his mom involved?), and Alexander becomes king.
Season 2 - He sacks Thebes, invades Persia, almost dies at The Grannicus and several other times. Gordian knot, Battle of Issus Siege of Tyre (he moves the fricking sea!), into Egypt. Political turmoil as we start to see a rift between him and Parmenion/older Macedonians. Show him filling ranks with Persians and having some Greeks sail home Season either ends with him being declared a god and starting to believe it, we see his greatness and his arrogance at the same time.
Season 3 - battle of Guagemela, sack of Persepolis, into Babylon. Dealing with the assassination attempt, him killing Philotas. The execution of Parmenion, death of Darius III, Alexander is king of Persia. Chasing down Besos, marrying Roxanna, to end the season?
Season 4 - into India, battle of Hydaspes (RIP Bucephalus). Mutiny of troops, traveling back, dealing with his mental issues and not fighting. He becomes self absorbed, loses confidence of his troops. Famous speech outside Susa during final mutiny, then death in Babylon.
Could do a 5th season on his successor kingdoms or just end it there.
Bonus points the could show Phillip’s gay love affairs and make Hephaestion Alexander’s lover so everyone will eat that shite up
You don’t even have to stray from the actual history, the guys life was incredible enough.
Season 1 - heavy focus on Phillip II, his rise to power, conquest of Greece, Macedonian court dealings. Meanwhile Alexander is growing up, taming Bucephalus, learning from Aristotle, dealing with the fallout of his mom and dad hating each other, moving away, coming back etc… Will he stay heir, won’t he. Season ends with Phillips assassination (was Alex/his mom involved?), and Alexander becomes king.
Season 2 - He sacks Thebes, invades Persia, almost dies at The Grannicus and several other times. Gordian knot, Battle of Issus Siege of Tyre (he moves the fricking sea!), into Egypt. Political turmoil as we start to see a rift between him and Parmenion/older Macedonians. Show him filling ranks with Persians and having some Greeks sail home Season either ends with him being declared a god and starting to believe it, we see his greatness and his arrogance at the same time.
Season 3 - battle of Guagemela, sack of Persepolis, into Babylon. Dealing with the assassination attempt, him killing Philotas. The execution of Parmenion, death of Darius III, Alexander is king of Persia. Chasing down Besos, marrying Roxanna, to end the season?
Season 4 - into India, battle of Hydaspes (RIP Bucephalus). Mutiny of troops, traveling back, dealing with his mental issues and not fighting. He becomes self absorbed, loses confidence of his troops. Famous speech outside Susa during final mutiny, then death in Babylon.
Could do a 5th season on his successor kingdoms or just end it there.
Bonus points the could show Phillip’s gay love affairs and make Hephaestion Alexander’s lover so everyone will eat that shite up
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Posted on 1/26/23 at 5:30 pm to Tiger1242
Can’t wait for the gay sex scenes
Posted on 1/26/23 at 6:15 pm to Tiger1242
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Alexander The Great
Apparently Colin Farrell can act now, he couldnt when that movie came out. Terrible movie.
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Could do a 5th season on his successor kingdoms or just end it there.
This could be good, 150 years of non stop warfare and intrigue after Alexanders death. Asia, Egypt, could be interesting.
Posted on 1/26/23 at 6:33 pm to Tiger1242
fricking war elephants baw
Posted on 1/26/23 at 6:44 pm to Tiger1242
That would be … great.
Posted on 1/26/23 at 6:52 pm to Lakeboy7
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150 years of non stop warfare and intrigue after Alexanders death. Asia, Egypt, could be interesting.
Won’t happen but would be great. Cleopatra has been done but I'd love to see more of a focus on the Seleucids or Macedonians. Plus both powers had major battles with Rome.
Posted on 1/26/23 at 6:57 pm to Tiger1242
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You don’t even have to stray from the actual history,
Don’t worry, they still would. If nothing else there’ll be lots and lots of gay orgies
Posted on 1/26/23 at 7:23 pm to Tiger1242
Very much would like his story well made and high budget.
Can we get Rosario nekkid again?
Can we get Rosario nekkid again?
Posted on 1/26/23 at 7:24 pm to Tiger1242
No it doesn’t. They’d be shite at doing it. They
Posted on 1/26/23 at 7:29 pm to Tiger1242
His life story is absolutely wild.
Posted on 1/26/23 at 7:34 pm to Tiger1242
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Alexander the Great Series would be absolutely incredible
Hell yes. Some of the greatest military accomplishments in human history.
I would also love to see a 5+ season series on the rise and fall of the Mongol Empire.
Posted on 1/26/23 at 7:34 pm to Tiger1242
Too expensive, too long to produce, it would have to be more like Rome.
Posted on 1/26/23 at 7:42 pm to Tiger1242
The siege of Tyre alone would be 5 seasons.
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The Macedonian army was unable to capture the city, which was a strategic coastal base on the Mediterranean Sea, through conventional means because it was on an island and had walls right up to the sea.
Alexander responded to this problem by first blockading and besieging Tyre for seven months.
As Alexander could not attack the city from the sea, he built a kilometre-long two hundred foot wide(as claimed by Diodorus) causeway stretching out to the island on a natural land bridge no more than two meters deep.
Posted on 1/26/23 at 10:20 pm to biglego
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Can’t wait for the gay sex scenes
I mean, I agree this is over done in movies and TV today, but they could stick to the actual history and include a bunch of gay sex scenes, and probably be pretty accurate. I’m not saying Alexander was straight up a homosexual, but there is pretty good evidence that his dad‘s assassination had partially to do with a male lovers quarrel. And go read about all of the ways Alexander mourned the death of Hephasteon, that’s not something you do for someone who is just a “best friend”. I do think the trope of “everyone from antiquity had a gay lover” is overblown, but it was way more common for otherwise straight men to have gay lovers back then.
So there you go, something for everyone! And there are tons of different races and religions involved in this story, it really does check all the boxes!
And yes, the siege of Tyre was absolutely bad arse. The dude literally dammed up the ocean just so he could sack a city to pray in its temple and leave.
Posted on 1/26/23 at 10:33 pm to Tiger1242
i know it would never happen, but what would be even better is an epic series about Hitler without all of the mandatory demonization. his story is just as wild as Alexander's.
Posted on 1/26/23 at 10:49 pm to Boodis Man
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i know it would never happen, but what would be even better is an epic series about Hitler without all of the mandatory demonization. his story is just as wild as Alexander's.
Hitlers life is not even close to as wild as Alexander’s, he’s got a pretty standard fascist dictator rise to power story really. Then the atrocities that were committed out him over the top.
Alexander conquered 2 million square miles of land, never lost a battle, had a magical horse, created an entire new culture, founded 13 cities, and destroyed the largest empire in the world in the span of 11 years.
Then he died at the age of 32, he accomplished 100x the feats of Hitler, I reject your suggestion sir.
Posted on 1/26/23 at 11:26 pm to Tiger1242
Alexander inherited his father's elite military and wealth, and as a youth was provided with the world's greatest tutor...it was all given to him on a silver platter.
contrast that with Hitler...a nobody who went from a failed wannabe painter to the most notorious man in history who almost conquered the world.
so no you are wrong, its not a '100x' difference when put in its proper context.
contrast that with Hitler...a nobody who went from a failed wannabe painter to the most notorious man in history who almost conquered the world.
so no you are wrong, its not a '100x' difference when put in its proper context.
Posted on 1/26/23 at 11:27 pm to Tiger1242
Alexander the great will be an LBGT series. Because face it, Alexander might be the first openly LBGT historical figure of renown. He and his companion were butt buddies to the end. We tried to brush it off but Alexander was flaming.
Posted on 1/26/23 at 11:42 pm to Tiger1242
Yes.
Posted on 1/27/23 at 12:48 am to Boodis Man
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contrast that with Hitler...a nobody who went from a failed wannabe painter to the most notorious man in history who almost conquered the world.
Hitler didn’t “almost conquer the world”
Hitler’s plan to conquer Europe had no chance of working as soon as he invaded Russia. He stretched his country to the brink, had anyone who questioned him frozen out or executed, forcing children and old men to fight at the end, then dying like a coward, all while commuting genocide trying to exterminate an entire religion (which he failed to do).
-failed to stabilize Germany
-failed to build an army that could last
-failed to conquer Europe
-failed to exterminate the Jews
So basically he was a crazy lunatic that used a social and economic collapse to seize power in a crippled country, radicalized the youth, then drove the country further into the ground. He failed at literally everything, including art.
Alexander actually accomplished all of his goals and more.
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