Michael Fassbender to play Irish Mythical Hero Cuchulainn

[saxdude]

He will also be the main protagonist of an Assassins creed movie supposedly, year of the Fass?

btw this name sounded like an aztec warrior's name

lol thought you were talking about Fassbender, reminds me of Kukulkan and I assume to you to, which means the name sounds rather Mayan than Aztec, Silly Eire people.

[Halie Satanus]

I agree with this. But you have to think commercially as well. Especially if they want to make any profit.

Better have aliens and ninjas in it if they want to actually make money.

I guess it depends what sort of film they want to make and who they get to fund it. Fassbender seems to have an eye towards gritty low budget work as well as the jobs that buy the odd Ferrari, he could strike a lottery/film4/IFB deal which would give a more freedom, this sounds a bit to niche for Hollywood producers to invest in.

[Manco]

Isn't Cuchulain the guy that hulks out in a weird way and lived like a dog in his childhood years?
It's been a while since I was interested in myths an .

[Akrotatos]

Glad to see that Hollywood decided to rape other people's mythologies as well Chulain sound badass though.

[EireEmerald]

Isn't Cuchulain the guy that hulks out in a weird way and lived like a dog in his childhood years?
It's been a while since I was interested in myths an .

Yeah, he would freak out sometimes during battle and killed droves of his own enemy and friends.

[Himster]

Isn't Cuchulain the guy that hulks out in a weird way and lived like a dog in his childhood years?
It's been a while since I was interested in myths an .

Yeah, in his warp-spasm he goes all muscely and his skin goes inside out and s everyone up. and as a child he killed the most fearsome hound (which belonged to a lord called Chulainn) in the country, a hound so fearsome that the castle it guarded needed no soldiers and as penance takes the hounds place until he can find a replacement, hence the name Cu-Chulainn, which means "the hound of Chulainn".

[Finn]

pronounced


KOO - KULLAIN

The way I pronounced it growing up was Koo-Hullin........anyway looking forward to this depiction of Cuchulainn which will hopefully live up to expectations.

[Lord of the Drunk Penguin]

Yeah, in his warp-spasm he goes all muscely and his skin goes inside out and s everyone up. and as a child he killed the most fearsome hound (which belonged to a lord called Chulainn) in the country, a hound so fearsome that the castle it guarded needed no soldiers and as penance takes the hounds place until he can find a replacement, hence the name Cu-Chulainn, which means "the hound of Chulainn".

So this is where my favourite Rome: Barbarian Invasion units come from!

[Ardruire Iacób]

One way to treat his ríastrad (the berserker warp-spasm) -

At last they hit upon a method to abate his manly rage (the result of having shed blood), and it was this: Emuin Macha's women all (six score and ten in number) bared their bosoms, and without subterfuge of any kind trooped out to meet him ( their maneuver being based on Cu Chulaind's well-known modesty, which, like all his other qualities, was excessive). The little fellow leaned his head against the rail of the chariot and shut them from his sight. Then was the desired moment; all unawares he was seized, and soused in a vat of cold water ready for the purpose. In this very vessel the heat generated by his immersion was such that the staves and hoops flew asunder instantly. IN a second vat the water escaped ( by boiling over); in yet a third the water was still hotter than one could bear. By this time, however, the little boy's fury had died down in him; from crown to sole he blushed a beautiful pink red all over, and they clad him in his festive clothes. Thus his natural form and feature were restored to him.

Are they featuring the Táin Bó Regamna as well? The one where the Morrígan and Cú Chulainn meet for the first time and the poor lad fails to make a good impression on only person who could really screw him over?

“I will be an eel, and I will draw a noose about thy feet in the ford, so that it will be a great unequal war for thee."
"I swear to the god that the Ulstermen swear by," said Cú Chulainn, "I will break thee against a green stone of the ford; and thou shalt have no healing from me, if thou leavest me not."
"I will in truth be a grey wolf against thee," said she, "and I will strip a stripe' from thee, from thy right (hand) till it extends to thy left."
"I will beat thee from me," said he, "with the spear, till thy left or thy right eye bursts from thy head, and thou shalt never have healing from me, if thou leavest me not."
"I shall in truth," she said, "be for thee as a white heifer with red ears and I will go into a lake near to the ford in which thou art in combat against a man who is thine equal in feats, and one hundred white, red-eared cows shall be behind me and 'truth of men' shall on that day be tested; and they shall take thy head from thee."
"I will cast at thee with a cast of my sling," said Cú Chulainn, "so as to break either thy left or thy right leg from under thee; and thou shalt have no help from me if thou leavest me not.”