LOL! That was my thought exactly. You beat me to it.
"Director Robert Dornhelm is painfully aware that there may be a large audience out there eagerly waiting to hate his new version of 'The Ten Commandments,'"
I think a large audience is wary of any religious story depicted by one of the alphabet channels, not because of the previous version but because they tend to make a mockery of the story, and insert (excuse the pun) homosexual and other propaganda. But that's just an opinion.
As much as I liked Charleton Heston as Moses, that was probably a bad miscast of the character. Jimmie Stewart or even Don Knotts would have seemed more like the Moses presented in Scripture as a self-doubting and inarticulate man whose brother spoke for him.