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| Qatar's big budget answer to anti-Islam film? $1 billion Prophet Mohammed movie |
| 2012-12-19 |
| A movie series on the life of Prophet Mohammed with a budget of $1 billion has been planned by a Qatar-based firm, AFP news agency reported on Tuesday. Alnoor Holding has said it will raise the budget for the planned production to $1 billion from the $1.5 million announced three years ago. The company said the film will be in English and will be translated into several different languages "to correct the wrong image Western societies have of Islam." The biopics will be produced as a series of "seven films -- instead of three films as per an earlier announcement -- with a total budget of $1 billion," Alnoor chairman Ahmed Al-Hashemi said in a statement. The company said "the team of experts has finished writing the scenario after overcoming numerous artistic and dramatic challenges." |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #14 Set the thing in a desert western town. have a black, gay iman come to town, call it 'Blazing Turbans.' al-Mel Brooks, producer |
| Posted by: USN,Ret. 2012-12-19 23:10 |
| #13 A billion dollars? Nothing too good for Mo. That amount could feed hungry Paks, but a lot will go to the massive burkha budget. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2012-12-19 21:46 |
| #12 Hollywood's challenge "humanise a murderous, invisible, thieving, paedophile prophet" Meh, Oliver Stone could do it standing on his head. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2012-12-19 19:32 |
| #11 Rated X due to child-boinking? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2012-12-19 19:07 |
| #10 Musical??? Mo with a top hat and tails, buncha burqa babes doing the high kick? Being an INFIDEL, I might pay to see that... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2012-12-19 17:13 |
| #9 Hollywood's challenge "humanise a murderous, invisible, thieving, paedophile prophet" |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2012-12-19 14:23 |
| #8 Heck with all that. Will there be goat pr0n? |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2012-12-19 14:13 |
| #7 1. How do you make a movie based on the life of a guy whose image can't be displayed under penalty of teeth-gnashing, rioting and murder? Will this be shot in first-person style like a video game? 2. Will the film contain scenes depicting his marriage to Aiesha? |
| Posted by: Dopey Sinatra9196 2012-12-19 14:04 |
| #6 TW, because of that you and I should form a movie production services company Only if we call it Argo, Dr. Steve. ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2012-12-19 12:44 |
| #5 TW, because of that you and I should form a movie production services company, and seek to fleece these jokers whilst the sheep is fluffy... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2012-12-19 12:12 |
| #4 Is it a snuff film? |
| Posted by: Iblis 2012-12-19 11:21 |
| #3 Spend your money now, guys. In a few years, when Canada, the US, and Israel are major oil and natural gas exporters, you won't have nearly as much to spend on such frivolities. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2012-12-19 11:00 |
| #2 I wonder if the Shiites will like the film's Sunni take on Imam Ali and the issue of their prophet's succession. |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2012-12-19 09:37 |
| #1 pass the pop corn. The fisking opportunities will be infinite. Oh, BTW isn't it illegal to portray the Big Mo? So what's this going to be, talking turbans? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2012-12-19 08:27 |