Genghis Khan trailer - Charlton Heston, Pat Morita, et al

[YipManneke]

jee he played some Hardball, i didnt know he was white either

[Lordofthenipplerings]

Only the Persian historian who never met Genghis nor lived in the same life time claimed Genghis had red hair. Other descriptions make no such comment. Instead he was described as typically Asian. And given the stock he was from, it would make the most sense.

[C0mmentar]

HAHAHAHAHAHA this is funnier than Jim Carrey's face.

The Greatest Conqueror of all Conquerors who conquered half of the world The Genghis Khan the Mongalian Temuijin who united Mongol Empire being portrayed by a non-Mongolian white? bro this is seriously funny ass comedy movie.

Who the heck paid to see this flopped movie in cinema I wonder.

[suprhomre]

white men trying to be East Asian men. What have the world become.

[Aiwendillie]

WHY ARE ALL THESE PEOPLE WHITE. It's not like it's, you know, hard to find asians..

[DrCruel]

@Aiwendillie For the same reason that Jesus and Santa are White in Boston and Black in Detroit.

[arifeenrufi]

@Aiwendillie this isthe mentality of white they dnot belive in other races even jesus was an arab but you find with bleu eyes and golden hair because they are master in changing the histroy and truth

[medadane]

ummmm how intelligent can you be to cast a white guy as Genghis Khan??? What the heck lol - what a joke I thought I was watching Braveheart for a second there!

[Seancui283]

"secret history of mongols" mentioned that he was red head,other than that no other descriptions.

[epicvlas]

wat afuckkkkkkkkkkkk ? is this shet? i can belive this......

[quesopilipinas41]

damn, i thought this was braveheart..haha..

[Pablo668]

My brother is in this movie!

[Zebonka]

Well this looks like the worst pile of shit since NASA accidentally fed astronauts their own crap on the Space Shuttle.

[skinflutey]

thats the bad guy from kindergarden cop

[redemptionsoldierdub]

good god this is so unbelievabley wrong that he palys the great khan an insult to mongols id call this

[Seancui283]

@redemptionsoldierdub so hes pally ?

[TheRakhym]

wtf !!??!! fuckkk white actors!!! mfk!

[shikoda18]

Actually, it was made in the 60's.

[trickster20]

This film looks Horrible!

Bad acting, and most of all Genghis Khan is being played by a white, blond-haired, blue-eyed white guy. GTFOH!

[ChelseaKG99]

I acted in this film in 1993

[SharpBriar1]

wow....is this horrible or what? Got to love white dudes playing asian characters....I'm with you voices, Gnillob802 is a doucher!

[ScapularSaves]

Hey when is this being released? Will it make the theater?

It looks so old I guess it was filmed in 92, but can they fix it with so it looks blue? I mean with technology today they can fix this, but then again they may have no money :-)

[nydaimyo]

I would recommend seeing "Mongol:The Rise of Genghis Khan" instead. Completely in the Mongol language and probably more historically accurate too.

[JIMBOND27]

EPIC

[hisalone1212]

He was mongolian...aren't these guy white?

[Gnillob802]

The person who posted this amazingly did not mention that the director is the legendary and great director Ken Annakin (Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, Swiss Family Robinson, Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies, etc.), who at age 93 actually edited the finished product just before he died. This means the person who posted this has absolutely no knowledge of film. Even Star Wars geeks know that George Lucas named Anakin Skywalker after Ken Annakin.

[Gnillob802]

Also I should add this was made as a TV mini-series and not a theatrical release. Though they never finished it there was still enough to edit into a 6-hour mini-series.

[fadedhour]

I'm a 21-year-old girl, not a Star Wars geek. Anyway, none of this changes the fact that it's a horrifically poorly-made trailer. The film's not out there so I can't judge it but I thought others might get a laugh from this abomination of a trailer.

Oh, I see that Ken Annakin directed 1972's The Call of the Wild, one of the most shit films ever and one that Charlton Heston himself urged people not to watch.

Thanks for the information--the personal attack, not so much.

[Gnillob802]

Lucas directed Howard the Duck, Speilberg directed 1941, every director has their dud, but to imply that "some company has acquired the rights" is false. The film has always been owned by Annakin and he spent the last year of his life, 2008, editing it. You have absolutely no knowledge of this director (30 seconds of research) or how highly he is thought of in this industry. That was my point and it is a correct point to make. At 21, you need to spend more time learning and less time posting.

[voicesoffcamera4848]

You obviously don't know anything about Lucas, because he didn't direct Howard the Duck.

[Gnillob802]

So Lucas produced Duck, you're the only who fucking cares, I haven't built an alter to him like you have to remember the size of his dick. Duck was Lucas' film and it was a dud, that's the point that went over your head, even Lucas admits he fucked up with that one, but you're too busy masturbating to Lucas' photo to admit he has had his misfires.

[voicesoffcamera4848]

I think lucas hasn't had any talent since '77. I've never seen someone get so upset about George Lucas before. Are you by fault an angry person or has YouTube really brought it out in you? Honestly? I can't tell if you're an adult or 12. Maybe not 12, more like 8.

[voicesoffcamera4848]

I just want to add that if anyone has built an altar to Lucas it's you. I quote, "Even Star Wars geeks know that George Lucas named Anakin Skywalker after Ken Annakin." For someone who knows a ridiculously trivial fact like this, you're altar must be getting pretty stained with your photos of Lucas everywhere.

[Gnillob802]

You're an idiot. I'm a fan of movies and a fan of Ken Annakin (which is really the same thing). Anyone who doesn't know the films of Ken Annakin (or his style) aren't film fans. Anyone who knows Ken Annakin knows the influence and  the numerous tributes other film makers have done in his name. Probably the most famous if not most obvious is in Star Wars. I've never even seen more than the original film trilogy years ago. You're an idiot and trying to justify a reason for being an idiot.

[voicesoffcamera4848]

Right, I'm the idiot for being right. Your logic is amazing. Why can't you just admit that this trailer is awful. If you don't like his films, then you're not a film fan? That's what we call a generalization, and as we learned in grade school, it's never good to generalize. Annakin might be a fine filmmaker, but this trailer is terrible, and will remain terrible. I proved you wrong, just deal with it.

[Gnillob802]

You shouldn't comment unless you even know what the argument was about. My comments were in response to someone calling Annakin a hack nobody director. Do you even think before you comment or just drunk?

[bmitchell211]

You made a factual error and I corrected you. Admit it fanboy.

[Gnillob802]

please use adult terms I feel like i'm conversing with a 12 year old "fanboy?" sorry, no errors on my part, you get an "F" for research, and that doesn't stand for "fanboy".

[Gnillob802]

I would suggest you do a little research on Ken Annakin, since this is what this is about. I know to ask someone like you who doesn't expand their knowledge beyond comic books to do that is a big stretch but try it anyway. Until then, its useless discussing Ken Annakin with you since you obviously don't know who he is, and since he never wore a cape, you never will.

[Trybrow]

i was so impressed by this message that i have decided to marry you.

[DrCruel]

@fadedhour And thanks for posting this artistic afterbirth. It's appreciated.

At present, "The Conqueror" holds the undisputed title of Worst Temujin Movie - until now. If this thing ever sees daylight, I'll have to reassess that title of honour ... (*grin*)

[MalubaySyecado]

I agree with Gnillob802. I am getting tired of people who have little or no knowledge of a particular subject finding it easier to make things up instead.

[eddtoro]

pity they didn't put Heston in the starring role. who cares about his age. He obviously had made sure he was wearing the right makeup and was larger than life even with the small part he did have. the camera man wasn't all that good with the angles and I won't even mention the lead actor.

[toshtego]

Ultimately though, whether Genghis Khan was "white" or not, his descendants, his dynasty, was ultimately dominated by the Han people who who make up the majority of China today, and their genetic blueprint is what we consider "asian" be it Chinese, or to a lesser extent Mongolian, Japanese, Korean, etc...

The great Han families ultimately usurped politically and genetically through intermarriage, the power of Ghengis Khan's descendants. And, as is fact, destroyed any likeness of Ghengis Khan.

[toshtego]

I would be unscientific to suggest that there were no people in central asia at the time of Genghis Khan that were not genetically similar to what we would today call "white".

There are still to this day genetically white people who have ruled the lands north of Mongolia in Sibera, and there were even genetically white people in the Northern Islands of Japan at the turn of the 20th century, indigenous to the region for thousands of years.

[toshtego]

Furthermore, by the late Yuan dynasty, the great families of the Han people, dominated the chinese court once again.

And after the fall of the Yuan dynasty, Han people came to dominate the area of what is today known as Mongolia, interbreeding with the people, and indeed changing the genetics of that region significantly from what it was like 700 years ago.

[Enedre]

I assure no Han population dominated the area which is Mongolia today. There was no inter-mixing between the Mongols and the han chinese...it was unthinkable then as it is today. The deal agreed with the Manchus was that no chinese slippers would cross the chinese wall...that was strictly reinforced plus it was forbidden for Mongols and Manchus to marry hasn chinese...thus only 2.5 million of us live in Mongolia today. Have a good day!

[toshtego]

It is fair to note that when Marco Polo visited china during the reign of Kublai Khan that he discribed the Chinese as a race of caucasian people, which might lay more evidence to the court that ruled china during the Yuan dynasty, at least in the time of Marco Polo's visit, was largely lead by people genetically akin to what we would today call Caucasian.

[toshtego]

So there is literally no remaining proof of what he looked like from a direct artists rendition.

Furthermore, there historical records of the chinese court mark that Genghis Khan had light skin and eyes, as did his descendants.

These are not characteristic genetic traits of Han Chinese, or various other chinese minorities that make up what we today consider chinese, or are characteristic of "asian" people i.e. Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, Mongolian, etc...

[toshtego]

In all honesty, and I am a person of asian decent, there is plenty of historical data left to create a fair debate that Genghis Khan was a person with white skin and blue or green eyes, or in other words of what is today termed caucasian.

All remnants of paintings, drawings, statues, and any other depictions of Genghis Khan and his direct disciples, up until Kublai Khan, were destroyed by later chinese dynasties.

[stoogevega]

words fall short when describing how offensive and shittastic that movie looks anyone involved in the production is an asshole and can go fuck themselves with a rusty railroad spike

[Bayrlalaa]

What da....American European man Chiggis Khaan????

what da shame !!!

this movie maker Doesnt respect My History My Lord KHAAN!!!!

DAMN EUROP!!!

[hotdave786]

ghenghis was a mongol not a caucasoid,

chinkie eyed as they call mongoloids,

with due respect to the videomakers,

the video needs improvement

[StrategicCreative]

I think this film could be improved by including some large scale dance routines, maybe having a Bollywood style soundtrack? :)

[fuckuwankers]

Why cant people comment and take the piss like this more. This is what its all about.

[indie007md]

how the fuck did khan become that white dude from Kindergarden Cop?

[MrMongolWolf]

@indie007md HAHAHAHAHAHA

[Katyusha213]

@indie007md .... Uh... Magic.

[MrZhuKeeper]

well, I am sure this movie is better than the latest Khan movie "Mongol." At least it is not rediculing Khan.

[yakboyfromhell]

after this alabama guy i'm beginning to think if a asian guy could play a role of abraham lincoln or george washigton. i mean after this movie its clear hollywood doesnt care about ethnicity.

[ChristopherVose]

I'm not trying to defend Hollywood in its infinite wisdom, but they did have a Japanese American Superman. Dean Cain's birth name was Dean George Tanaka.

Also, on this path, it pains me how much I enjoyed Attila with Gerard Butler as the titular character. While I can never fault Gerard, the Huns were no closer to being Scottish than the Mongols.

[geezzerboy]

Thanks for the clip and the detailed information. I'm attempting to be as informative with my clips. Could Hes be any worse than John Wayne as Genghis? Or John Mills as the Ancient One of Dr Strange?

[lordzeno666]

Look for a bio pic of George Washington coming soon!!!!

Washington will be played by Jet Lee of course. He will be wearing "white makeup" to make him look more caucasian of course. To be "authentic."

[fuckuwankers]

Hysterical comments people. HAHAHAHA

[jackh4eva]

I can't wait for the scene when he kicks Benedict Arnold into outer space.

[lordzeno666]

Who needs asians when you can have crackers like me playing them eh?

[Johnkim510]

I think tom hanks should play martin luther king in the next movie.

[SteelgunnerJin]

The way Hollywood does its casting he might as well be.

[yakboyfromhell]

jackie chan can now finally play the role of nelson mandela

[Johnkim510]

How insecure do you have to be to try and pretend you were responsible for another people's accomplishment?

[hawks3070]

looks like richard tyson did very good in this movie to me

[lordzeno666]

I'll have what this guy is smoking.

[yerk3]

I mean, it's Genghis Khan, the most bad-ass Asian that ever lived. Every time a movie gets made about him, I have to imagine about 13 highly qualified Asian American actors, all dying to get the role, all being turned down for some white actor. This is ridiculous in the extreme.

[Garethchina]

Hey it's not like the Americans to let the truth get in the way of a good story.

[uglyestprince69]

this movie looks dumb.. Genghis Khan is Mogolia not White

[willow2oo7]

This looks absalutley rediculas....i mean...genghis khan.......is a mongolian...not a bloody american. 1/5

[StrategicCreative]

I think this looks great!

If this can get released I think it will be a cult film. Hopefully *then* we can get a Chinese martial arts version of Gone with the Wind :)

[barryc6]

This looks absolutely awful

[f0rpus]

hahaha i didnt know Genghis Khan was american =)

[yerk3]

I mean, if it's an American movie, I can understand if it's in English, but please, don't tell me there weren't at least several qualified Asian American actors willing to take the role

[rodcrippler]

julia nickson is so hot!

[gotmituns]

what a joke

[ryanmfilms]

what the fuck is this shit, crap! More like Genghismerican. Bad portrayal, bad acting and bad movie.

[bck70]

Look at the american, as Chinghis Khan, ahahahahahahehehehehe

[georgetruong]

wow genghis khan could speak English!!!!!!!!!!

[batka88]

what the fuck is this? this fucker is Ghengis Khan? hahaha

[sitedecinema]

Back in the early 70s, BRUCE LEE was left out of the lead role in the KUNG FU series in lieu of the David Carradine since the producers did not think America was ready for a chinese as a star of a tv show...it seems not much has changed since, huh?

[rodcrippler]

but a t least david carradines mother was chineese

[msamcbb]

What the... He doesn't even look close

[AndyKB2007]

What ta fuck is wrong with these American movie maker, a white guy as Khan lol. Tom Cruise pussy ass as the last samurie. LOL

[spamusubi]

LALALALA...LOL

[NCAD]

So is this movie coming to DVD or not? I'd love it buy it!

[yerk3]

When will they finally get an Asian actor to play Genghis Khan? I mean, of all of the qualified actors who could have gotten the role, they had to choose a red haired, blue eyed white guy? I think it really is racism. People in America can't fathom the idea of an Asian guy being a badass. I blame the Donger for all of this. Bring me the head of Gedde Watanabe!

[rodcrippler]

yeah, ive never seen a real asian ghengis khan, it was, this guy, richard burton, and even nicholas cage was a mongol badass named fumanchu

[hypokritical]

check out Richard Tyson at richardtyson dot net

[denizceptacon]

only drawing from chinese does the great Kaan look asian

[chicanjos]

they should give this role to jason scott lee , for example.

[dolomite51]

Hell we might as well get some asian dude to play George Washington.

[chicanjos]

that was good, man. in fact, tyson doesn't look like any mongolian mam. I think they sould call an asian american actor for this role.

[OliverNero]

so if gengkhis khan is a white guy, cao cao(romance of the three kingdom) is a black guy then hahaha...just jokin alrite no offence

[denizceptacon]

He didn't look like a chinese nor an anglo he looked Turkic

[ColonelCuster]

Rascism has nothing to do with it.

The plain and simple truth is that Hollyweird has never gotten History right at all.

They sacrifice history for drama and actors with drawing power for those who should play the parts.

It boils down to MONEY.

Doing it historically accurate doesn't bring big box office, so Hollyweird will never do a film the way we would like.

[baldanhu]

Mongolians rulz!

[Yangjhn]

the fuck, genghis is mongolian not white, ahahahahaha

[kx06]

gay, genghis khan is not white , hes asian. fucken racist hollywood dumbass

[DeAztec62]

He's not asian not meaning to sound racist but he doesn't even have eyes like a mongolian person

[charylene211]

That is absolutely the most fascinating thing I ever learned. Charleton Heston as Genghis Khan! Is that the idea? Wow! I saw Heston in person recently and that blows my mind!

[fadedhour]

Actually, Charlton Heston played a secondary character. Richard Tyson played Genghis Khan.

Where did you see Heston?

[charylene211]

Thanks for straightening that out! I saw him at the local Brentano book store, operated by Border's, some years ago at the Fashion Square in Scottsdale, Arizona. He attracted a long crowd selling his books on the Bible. He looked great to me!

[Skatilltheend]

@fadedhour That makes it even more hilarious knowing that the actor who played the antagonist from kindergarten cop was selected to play Ghengis Kahn, and some how Kahn is now a red head.

[rodcrippler]

charlton would look like asian cuz of his tiny eyes, hahaha

[poorboy1225]

This is so wrong... they might as well be driving cars and riding hoverboards from "Back to the Future."

[IYIeTaLmOuSe]

the protagonist is always the white guy... how shitty they better star an asian guy when a real movie of genghis khan come out

[dasboot123]

WTF is this? why the white acting as genghis khan?? this is so racist against asians.... Hollywood white morons never get Genghis Khan's history or ANY ASIANS' history straight.... Shit it's like alexander is acted out by Asian... fuck this movie pointless

[blackjamm]

Chinggis Khan played by the bad guy from Kindergarten Cop? Ene kino muu baina. Chinggis Khan Amerik khuen bish.

[raby760]

This movie would have been lame because Genghis Khan was asian. I would have watched it anyway because Pat Morita was in it.

[Riel2000]

gaaaaaaaaaaaaaay...what a piece of crap

[shady110]

wtf genghis khan supose to look chinese or asain. man wtf is a white man doing there?

[fresh8ty6]

AHAHAHA!

GENGHIS KHAN KIND OF LOOkS LIKE BRAVEHEART!

WHY NOT MAKE GENGHIS HAVE A SCOTTISH ACCENT WHILE YOUR'RE AT IT!

[asian95212]

what the hell

[dolomite51]

Just about all Genghis Khan's Mongol movies have white guys playing the lead. The closest they every got to an actual asian playing Genghis Khan was with the movie with Omar Sherif, and that one sucked big time too. But whatever you do...don't ever watch "The Conqeror", John Wayne and his cowboy accent just doesn't seem to fit well as a Mongolian.

Hopefully, the new movie comming out next year "Mongol" would be decent. From my understanding, they're actually using asians this time...

[tugsuu]

For fuck sick! This is too disappointing movie. The guy is white and sucks !!. Genghis Khan was great man! mongolians doesn't looks so shit like this guy!!!

[KENTA67]

hahahhaha this man is Khan . LOL

[xtcturk]

they r fuckin up our history .. the guy is white..

[xtcturk]

wtf.. the guy doesnt even look close 2 fuckin mongolian .. wtf where did they get that fuckin guy.. they find stupid ppl like this.. guy .. same thing with the attila the hun movie they find a guy that has notthin to the with atilla hun not even close .. its stupid

[adildus]

genghis khan?? could you they at least find hispanic actor?

[Gellato]

Oh dear. Well, we've had Alec Guiness play both an Indian in Passage to India, and an Arab sheikh in Lawrence of Arabia. So caucasians playing other races is not new. But Mongolians would not be happy about this at all. It is absurd to use a white guy for his role.

[fadedhour]

Don't forget about Laurence Olivier in Khartoum ;)

[Kari35]

This could have changed Richard Tyson's whole career....this is kind of sad to me that they did'nt ever release it. I love him!!

[kimtheking]

wdf??!?!?!?!?!!?

[Mariachi24]

what!!genghis khan is a white man???

[fadedhour]

From Alabama, no less!