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From Xinhua we learn that Ridley Scott has purchased the rights to two screenplays—Qin Shi Huang (秦始皇) and Genghis Khan (成吉思汗). According to that and other reports, Scott is intent on making a historical epic type film about China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, with the help of Zhang Yimou, whose film Hero featured the first emperor as a character. According to Chinese reports, Scott will probably get down to some serious work on this after the 2008 Olympics, in part because Zhang Yimou's a little busy with the opening and closing ceremony preparations. Though we respect Ridley Scott, we really can't feel an ounce of excitement about yet another historical epic full of grandiose themes that will ooh and ahh us for two, maybe three hours, and then you leave you feeling just about as empty as you did before.