08-01-2008, 06:52 PM
This news from Hollywood
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=47462
[size=150:a3ggu0sg]Foster Options The Arms of the Sun [/size]
Source: The Hollywood Reporter July 30, 2008
Producer Lucas Foster (Mr. & Mrs. Smith) has optioned "The Arms of the Sun," a novel by Roberto Zacco first published in Italy by Mondadori, says The Hollywood Reporter.
The novel is part of a trilogy about the ancient Egyptian pharaohs and focuses on Nefertiti, the consort of Akhenaton, the first royal to espouse belief in a single god.
"This is a cool book about one of history's most intriguing women. It will be the basis for an epic romantic adventure film -- movies like this are why I became a filmmaker," Foster said.
Writers are being screened but casting is not yet under way. Plans are to shoot the $30 million film in Morocco and Dubai.
Of course what this short blurb does not point out that the "single god" championed by Akhenaton was not popular with the people, and that after his death the Egyptians returned to their old pantheon of familiar gods and goddesses.
Perhaps that will come out in the film, or not -- with Hollywood you can never be certain until the film unspools at the local cinema and even then one can be left wondering just what story the film makers was really trying to tell.
:wink:
Narukami
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=47462
[size=150:a3ggu0sg]Foster Options The Arms of the Sun [/size]
Source: The Hollywood Reporter July 30, 2008
Producer Lucas Foster (Mr. & Mrs. Smith) has optioned "The Arms of the Sun," a novel by Roberto Zacco first published in Italy by Mondadori, says The Hollywood Reporter.
The novel is part of a trilogy about the ancient Egyptian pharaohs and focuses on Nefertiti, the consort of Akhenaton, the first royal to espouse belief in a single god.
"This is a cool book about one of history's most intriguing women. It will be the basis for an epic romantic adventure film -- movies like this are why I became a filmmaker," Foster said.
Writers are being screened but casting is not yet under way. Plans are to shoot the $30 million film in Morocco and Dubai.
Of course what this short blurb does not point out that the "single god" championed by Akhenaton was not popular with the people, and that after his death the Egyptians returned to their old pantheon of familiar gods and goddesses.
Perhaps that will come out in the film, or not -- with Hollywood you can never be certain until the film unspools at the local cinema and even then one can be left wondering just what story the film makers was really trying to tell.
:wink:
Narukami
David Reinke
Burbank CA
Burbank CA
