First Johnny, now Mickey

I guess i see the similarities....


And now Hollywood comes riding in on the money horse for a game of revisionist history! Chingis is going to be blonde, and sexy and have a full set of nice clean white teeth, he'll be a ladies man, with some violent tendencies, but not too garish - or perhaps extremely blood thirsty with a soft side for puppies and burning down villages. Oh, the possibilities are endless!

I wonder if they'll even film it here....

ROURKE TO PLAY GENGHIS KHAN
27 April 2010
06:07
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Apr 26, 2010 (WENN via COMTEX) -- MICKEY ROURKE is to play GENGHIS KHAN in a new movie about the Mongol warrior.
Conan The Barbarian writer/director John Milius will oversee the project.
Rourke tells the Orlando Sentinel newspaper, "John wrote (the) piece from the son and grandson's point of view, how they saw this mythic figure from their family.
"You see him (Khan) in flashbacks, back when he was in his mid-40s. And back then, being in your mid-40s was being really old."
Genghis Khan was the emperor of the vast Mongol Empire in the 13th century. He united the nomadic tribes of northeast Asia.
He died in 1227 and was buried in an unmarked grave somewhere in Mongolia