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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Grumpy Celt" data-source="post: 3441568" data-attributes="member: 1019">They man who is directing this flick is the same German who directed the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake a few years ago. So, there may be blood and body parts aplenty.I think one thing the flick may get booted around about, above and beyond historical accuracy, is the notion it takes a European pretending to be a native to save the natives from the Europeans. This is thematically similar to the story of The Last Samurai, where Cruse's character was a failure and drunkard as an American military man but managed to become a psuedo-Samurai pretty well and fought with the other Samurai against people trying to turn Japan into America.A number of real-world historical circumstances worked together to prevent the Norse from colonizing North America and to cause the collapse of the Norse colony on Greenland. This is covered well in Jared diamond's book, Collapse. A movie doesn't have to stick to nuts and bolt of history and how the logistical situation and Norse cultural philosophy may have doomed their efforts from the outset. But the movie makers could be bold enough to say the Native Tribes of the North East could take care of themselves, thank you very much.</blockquote>