So cutting edge, so in your face, so willing to take on tough issues and stand up to real evil, Hollywood - the force of goodness and stranegth in times of despair - we look to Charlie Sheen or John Cusack, Barbra Streisand, or Scarlett Johansson for inspiration. After all, they are more than willing to provide it - simply let any of them go on any subject political and grab the diaper!
Then we have the director / writer of Boondock Saints - Hollywood stood up to him, he was knocked down and kicked to the ground, stomped on, and treated like shit for .... no one knows, but we can assume it was his ego, his treatment of people, his arrogance, his boorish behavior ... in other words - he was just like a typical Hollywood director/actor, but Hollywood went way out there to punish this guy - they have been mad at him for over a decade, and for the moment, do not look like they will give in.
Hollywood - standing up to tyrants and dictators ... unless they are real and seek death and destruction on a people, or have tried to exterminate a people, or may still be trying to destroy a people or a civilization. Hollywood - guts and glory, backbone, character ...
Now they are making a 'blockbuster epic' about Mohammad.
What will we see in this edgy epic ... his message of peace.
So go ahead, give it a try. It's all about peace. We're not that insecure are we.
Matrix producer plans Muhammad biopic
Barrie Osborne, part of the Oscar-winning team behind the Lord of the Rings films, says the new production 'will educate people about the true meaning of Islam'
Xan Brooks and agencies guardian.co.uk,
Monday 2 November 2009
Producer Barrie Osborne cast Keanu Reeves as the messiah in The Matrix and helped defeat the dark lord Sauron in his record-breaking Lord of the Rings trilogy. Now the Oscar-winning American film-maker is set to embark on his most perilous quest to date: making a big-screen biopic of the prophet Muhammad.
Budgeted at around $150m (£91.5m), the film will chart Muhammad's life and examine his teachings. Osborne told Reuters that he envisages it as "an international epic production aimed at bridging cultures. The film will educate people about the true meaning of Islam".
Osborne's production will reportedly feature English-speaking Muslim actors. It is backed by the Qatar-based production company Alnoor Holdings, who have installed the Muslim scholar Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi to oversee all aspects of the shoot. In accordance with Islamic law, the prophet will not actually be depicted on screen.
"The film will shed light on the Prophet's life since before his birth to his death," Ahmed Abdullah Al-Mustafa, Alnoor's chairman, told al-Jazeera. "It will highlight the humanity of Prophet Muhammad."
The as-yet-untitled picture is due to go before the cameras in 2011. It remains to be seen, however, whether it will be beaten to cinemas by another Muhammad-themed drama. Late last year, producer Oscar Zoghbi announced plans to remake The Message, his controversial 1976 drama that sparked a fatal siege by protesters in Washington DC. The new version, entitled The Messenger of Peace, is currently still in development.
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