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Orlando Bloom in "Kingdom of Heaven"
Wednesday, October 29, 2003 12:30 PM EST
Director Ridley Scott has set Orlando Bloom to star in "Kingdom of Heaven", an epic love story that he will shoot in Morocco beginning January 12th.
Bloom will play a peasant who becomes a knight, saves a kingdom and falls in love with the princess of Jerusalem. Scott saw Bloom's potential when he cast the then-unknown thesp to join the ensemble of "Black Hawk Down".
The film, which takes place in the 12th century during the time of the Crusades, will be staged on a scale that Scott described as being slightly larger than "Gladiator", his Oscar-winning epic.
It continues a remarkable run for Bloom, a 26-year-old British actor who had just completed his studies at Guild Hall School of Drama when he was cast by Peter Jackson to play Legolas in "The Lord of the Rings". He has become a cornerstone of that franchise, which concludes in December.
Bloom followed that trilogy by starring in the blockbuster "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" and has signed for the sequel.
Then he was cast by "Troy" director Wolfgang Petersen to play Paris, whose courtship with Helen of Troy triggered the Trojan War. Warner Bros. releases that film next summer with Brad Pitt and Eric Bana starring.
For "Kingdom of Heaven", Scott sparked to using the lush locations of Morocco, where he shot parts of "Gladiator" and "Black Hawk Down".
Source: Variety
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