Worst Anachronism of All

..."Ofelas" was about Laplanders or Samis to use the correct term, fighting a group of barbarians called Tjuders (no, there's nothing about them on Google about them) around one thousand AD. Unlike the later version the main charter was not one of the barbarians, but rather saw his family murdered by them. The story was based on an old Samis legend and since Northern Scandinavia was invaded many times by Vikings and others the events in the movie could have happened...It's hard to say what possessed the jokers who remade this movie to change the Sanis into Native Americans and the Tjuders into Vikings. Maybe it was because the studio determined most people knew what Viking and Native Americans were. Whatever the reason they did a bad job of it...The Vikings look like something out of a fantasy illustrated novel or the artwork that was painted on the sides of vans during the seventies. The armor looks like nothing that existed at anytime in history and there are those expletive deleted horns. The stereotype image of Vikings wearing horned helmets is deeply ingrained in the public conciseness. Comicly the statue of Leif Erikson in Erikson Park in Duluth has the explorer waring a helmet with wings on either side like the Greek god Mercury; a weird attempt at realism. That's somewhat unlikely in fact he probably didn't ware a helmet...Also while there is evidence the Scandinavian colonists who really settled in what is now NewFoundland may have had dairy cattle there is no evidence they brought horses to North America. Had they done so history would have been changed. Five hundred years later,when the Spaniards brought horses to the new world it didn't take the Native Americans long to figure out what to do with them. The European conquest of North America would have been a whole lot harder...The colonists really did have problems with resistance from the Native Americans in NewFoundland. Out numbered with no compelling reason to remain they finally left the region. Ultimately the Little ice age made Greenland uninhabitable and ended any further exploration of North America. Still if the Vikings or Scandinavians used the military force depicted in this movie in real life we probably would all be speaking Norwegian now.
People are just getting dumber, but more opinionated-Ernestine (Silks) in "The Human Stain"

The graphic novel they reference is the one Dark Horse released based on the movie's screenplay. There was misinformation prior to the release of the movie that it was based on a graphic novel (like 300 and Sin City).

You are correct that the movie was a "remake" of the 1987 film, but it was by no means meant to be a direct remake. It was more of a loose adaptation.

You might try to be more civil.