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Mickey Rourke playing Genghis Khan
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Matt
26th April 2010
Actual quote: "One of the things I like about Genghis Khan was his love of dogs." That and his brief stint in the Mongolian WWE.
I feel a mixture of awe and pity for Mickey Rourke. Awe, because he's awesome, naturally. But pity? The poor guy has such a busted face - brought on himself via some extremely ill-advised lifestyle choices, it has to be added - that he can never really play any roles other than... well, people with busted faces.
This is why the news that he's apparently set to play Genghis Khan made me go WHHHHAAAAAAA? Just like that. Or maybe it was more HUUHHH?
Talking on the set of new movie Immortals, Rourke revealed he'll be playing the Mongol legend in a new movie directed by John Milius, writer of Apocalypse Now and director of Conan The Barbarian.
I'm playing Genghis. John wrote as a piece told from the son and grandson's point of view, how they saw this mythic figure from their family. You see him in flashbacks, back when he was in his mid-40s."
Seriously. That actually happened.
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