There already is a movie about the Maccabees. I had never heard of it till I came across it as a used VHS tape in a second-hand bookstore a couple of months back. Misleadingly titled "The Old Testament" (for its American release), it's one of those Italian spaghetti epics from the early sixties, about Matthias and Judas Maccabeus and the revolt against Antiochus Epiphanes.
Not likely to win any film awards. Has anyone else ever heard of it (or seen it)?