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GENGHIS KHAN - The Story of a LIfetime
OFFICIAL SITE for "Genghis Khan-The Story of a Lifetime"
+++The Greatest Heston Film Never Finished (!): A REAL'KHAN' JOB: In late 1992, Charlton Heston
traveled to Russia (heading up a cast of lesser known actors) to play (with lots of makeup!) a Mongol warlord named "Togrul"
in an independently financed, $45 million historical epic titled "GENGHIS KHAN." Unfortunately, the film-makers ran out of
money (!). According to Chuck, he and his makep man were probably the only ones paid. Ken Annakin ("The Longest Day") was
the director of this ill-fated Vision International production.
GOOD NEWS! Now (retitled and finally edited...by its now 93-year-old director), "Genghis
Khan - The Story of a Lifetime" is scheduled to be released "sometime" in 2009, according to a variety of recent news sources.
LATEST UPDATE (March, 2009): Just receieved an email from Madison Motion Pictures stating that
"Genghis Khan" is "about ready"; it is scheduled--if a distributor is readily available--to be released "at the end of the
year" in different formats, according to the particular market: either as a 6-hour mini-series or a 2-hour feature film.
***Film Music Magazine reported that Richard Horowitz ("Any Given Sunday" & "Three Seasons")
will be composing an original score for "Genghis Khan," incorporating Mongolian folk music elements.)
IMDB Listing for "Genghis Khan"
WHY CHUCK NEVER BECAME A 'MICRONAUT':
According to a recently resurfaced interview in Fantastic Films, Charlton Heston
was offered--in the late 1970s--the lead (as The Commander?) in a film version of a furturistic action figure line/comic book
series known as "The Micronauts." Explaining that "there was nothing to act in it," he turned the role down, and the
film was never made.
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