Waiting for the Knights of Malta
Writing in The Guardian, Marina Hyde asks after the whereabouts of Guy Ritchie's Knights of Malta epic:
..Remember this? Way back in 2001 back when Guy Ritchie still thought he'd be allowed to do anything other than churn out ever-cheaper imitations of his first movie the Lock Stock fauxteur announced grandiose plans for an enormo-budget 16th-century epic based on the siege of Malta Alas, it appears Guy was last drawn on the subject in 2005, when he explained the delay thusly: "A load of other epics came out, so I thought I'd see how they did."Knights of Malta on hold
They did really well. Again: what happened? He didn't elaborate, but would only say he'd taken a year writing the script and he wanted it to be like "the best of that type Pirates of the Caribbean". Can you even imagine? There is literally not a single movie Lost in Showbiz would like to see more than this. In fact, as of today the Knights of Malta ride again. Of that Mister Ritchie, you may be sure.
posted by Robert Micallef at 7/25/2008 11:06:00 AM
There were many similar stories in Europe at the time...the Seige of Vienna, the attack on Constanople by Vlad Tepes, any number of seiges of Jerusalem. The political importance of the Malta affair was as much, maybe even more important than the actual seige itself.
The political fallout after the Great Seige of Malta was spectacular, and some believe the seige was of greater importance and as seminal of events for the time than D-Day was in 1945. The political machinations which resulted in the delayed relief effort are often overlooked, as are the indescribable efforts of the Maltese people in support of Knights which themselves were invaders only a few decades before.
Might be nice to see a wide screen spectacle about all that stuff as well! The more I study it, the more twists and turns I discover!
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