SUBMITTED BY Kriszta

July 23, 2002 — The UK Telegraph posted an article about the rival Hannibal movies, mentioning Ridley Scott, as the director of the Vin Diesel starrer film.

Two of the biggest names in Hollywood are locked in a battle to film the first modern-day biopic of Hannibal, the Carthaginian general who led his elephants over the Alps into Rome.

Ridley Scott, the British director of Gladiator, is attempting to bring his historical epic to the screen before Denzel Washington, who won this year's Oscar for Best Actor in Training Day.

[...] Now, however, Washington faces being beaten to the big screen by Scott, who has the might of Sony behind his Hannibal project. Scott has signed up America's fastest rising star, Vin Diesel, the brawny and bullish New York actor who charges L10 million a film, for the lead role.

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