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Movie planned on life of Prophet Mohammad
Reuters ^
| Oct 27, 2008
| Andrew Hammond
Posted on 10/29/2008 8:41:01 AM PDT by forkinsocket
A movie drama about the life of the Prophet Mohammad is to go into production soon, and will be only the second English-language film of its kind ever made, its producers said on Monday.
"The Messenger of Peace" will be a remake of Moustapha Akkad's "The Message," a 1977 Hollywood classic starring Anthony Quinn which is often applauded by Muslims as an example of how commercial Western cinema can respect Islam.
"We have only the utmost respect for Akkad's work but technology in cinema has advanced since the 1970s and this latest project will employ modern film techniques in its renewal of the first film's core messages," producer Oscar Zoghbi, who worked on the original, said in a statement.
Akkad, the Syrian-born executive producer of Hollywood's "Halloween" horror films, was killed in a suicide bomb attack by al Qaeda on a luxury hotel in Jordan's capital Amman in 2005.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: islam; movie; muhammad; muslims; muslimslie; obama
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To: forkinsocket
Working title:
How to be a pedophile and get away with it.........
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posted on
10/29/2008 8:42:40 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(My wallet is made out of depleted you-owe-mium........)
To: forkinsocket
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posted on
10/29/2008 8:42:59 AM PDT
by
DogBarkTree
(Hope in one hand and Change in the other. Which hand gets dirty first?)
To: forkinsocket
Rename it “The Rape of Aisha”.
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posted on
10/29/2008 8:43:36 AM PDT
by
Bon mots
To: forkinsocket
Who will play the Prophet? I’d suggest Aston Kurcher as a young Mo, with Steven Colbert playing the older muhami. And Sarah Silverman as “the girlfriend”.
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posted on
10/29/2008 8:43:46 AM PDT
by
BlueStateBlues
(Blue State for business, Red State at heart..)
To: forkinsocket
"The Messenger of Peace" will be a remake of Moustapha Akkad's "The Message," a 1977 Hollywood classic starring Anthony Quinn which is often applauded by Muslims as an example of how commercial Western cinema can respect Islam.We know too much about Islam, now, to respect it.....
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posted on
10/29/2008 8:43:52 AM PDT
by
freebilly
To: forkinsocket
Hmmm....heads may roll over this one.
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posted on
10/29/2008 8:44:54 AM PDT
by
ladyvet
(WOLVERINES!!!!!)
To: forkinsocket
“The Messenger of Peace”
Oh, I see. Its a fictional comedy.
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posted on
10/29/2008 8:47:28 AM PDT
by
ChicagahAl
(So your bumper sticker says: "Don't blame me, I didn't vote!"? Duh!)
To: ChicagahAl
Someone should have gotten a piece of the Messenger.
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posted on
10/29/2008 8:48:14 AM PDT
by
Borges
To: forkinsocket
Will there be scenes of the raping of a 9 yo?
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posted on
10/29/2008 8:48:46 AM PDT
by
subterfuge
(BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
To: BlueStateBlues
How about Alec “Bullwhip” Baldwin as the older mo....
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posted on
10/29/2008 8:48:51 AM PDT
by
illiac
(If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
To: forkinsocket
Mohammad was the perfect pervert for a perfectly perverted religion that worships a perverse, goon god. The movie ought to be a hoot.
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posted on
10/29/2008 8:49:09 AM PDT
by
pallis
To: forkinsocket
It’d better kick azz like “300” or it’s gonna be a snoozer.
To: illiac
So many possibilities. Will Smith, a digital Bela Lugosi, the older guy from Back To The Future?
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posted on
10/29/2008 8:51:22 AM PDT
by
BlueStateBlues
(Blue State for business, Red State at heart..)
To: pallis
“Akkad, the Syrian-born executive producer of Hollywood’s “Halloween” horror films, was killed in a suicide bomb attack by al Qaeda on a luxury hotel in Jordan’s capital Amman in 2005.”
The irony about says it all.
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posted on
10/29/2008 8:52:22 AM PDT
by
AmericanVictory
(Should we be more like them, or they like us?)
To: forkinsocket
In other words, leave all the bad stuff about Mohammed out of the movie and make up a lot of other stuff.
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posted on
10/29/2008 8:52:22 AM PDT
by
SoConPubbie
(GOP: If you reward bad behavior all you get is more bad behavior.)
To: BlueStateBlues
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posted on
10/29/2008 8:53:02 AM PDT
by
illiac
(If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
To: Borges
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posted on
10/29/2008 8:53:49 AM PDT
by
Prole
(Please pray for the families of Chris and Channon. May God always watch over them.)
To: forkinsocket
I don't think the Muslims who praised the original are going to stand between this one and a Molotov cocktail.
I sort of see a young Samuel L. Jackson in a reprise of his Pulp Fiction role...
To: forkinsocket
It’s all in fun till somebody gets their head sawed off.
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posted on
10/29/2008 9:01:38 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Paying taxes for bank bailouts is apparently the patriotic thing to do. [/sarc])
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