Watch the English teaser trailer for Mongol here

Ever since Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, I’ve been hoping for a Genghis Khan movie.  Mongols are up there with pirates and vikings when it comes to potentially awesome movie subjects.

And I’m hoping that, since this wasn’t produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, the Mongols will be depicted as the sword fighting, pee-drinking, rape-happy savages they were, and not lovable rogues who talk to animals and solve ghost stories. 

Unfortunately, I don’t know much about the director, Russian Sergei Bodrov.  At times like these, I turn to racial stereotyping.  My call is that Mongol will be bleak, stoic, and unnecessarily brutal, and will let you marry its beautiful daughter for $5,000 American dollars.  You heard it here, folks.  (opens in limited US release in June)

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