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Fox Reimagines Moses!!
Merrick here...
I'm surprised it took this long...
Twentieth Century Fox will develop a retelling of the story of Moses, from his near death as an infant to his adoption into the Egyptian royal family, his defiance of the Pharaoh and deliverance of the Hebrews from enslavement.
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The script will be written by Adam Cooper and Bill Collage, who recently completed a scripted retelling of Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" for director Timur Bekmambetov at Universal.
"Moby Dick" was pitched as a "300"-like reimagining of the Melville story as a visually stunning action piece, and the story of Moses is conceived similarly.
The goal is to give a "Braveheart" feel to a story most famously captured in Cecil B. DeMille's 1956 film "The Ten Commandments."
...reports THIS ARTICLE in Variety.
For more details on the "reimagined" MOBY DICK project mentioned above - including Cooper's incendiary quote "Our vision isn’t your grandfather’s Moby Dick..." - click HERE!
So who would make a good Moses?
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The script will be written by Adam Cooper and Bill Collage, who recently completed a scripted retelling of Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" for director Timur Bekmambetov at Universal.
"Moby Dick" was pitched as a "300"-like reimagining of the Melville story as a visually stunning action piece, and the story of Moses is conceived similarly.
The goal is to give a "Braveheart" feel to a story most famously captured in Cecil B. DeMille's 1956 film "The Ten Commandments."
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Wicker Boy
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Now I can die happy.
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dark skinned, polyamorous Egyptians. Strike a blow for anachronistic anglos.
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Sounds good to me. Time has not been kind to Heston's version.
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Don't act like his agent won't be getting a phone call.
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give it some Gladiator style epicness.
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when this film is finished my guess is that most evangelical Christians will be more familiar with the celluloid version of Moses than the one in their precious Bible.
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Bush for the Pharoah. Or Arnie.
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Egyptians and Hebrews as their true dark-skinned selves, I'll pass.
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They're in the Bible, but strangely were left out of the Moses movies I've seen.
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He's in everything this days...
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Or will they try to pass it off as historical fact? Just wonderin...
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Never heard of him, does he got a twitter?
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Oct 12, 2009 11:04:52 AM CDT
LOOK EVERYONE! V'SHAEL'S OPINIONS CLASH WITH SOCIETY!
by cletus van damme
Isn't that hip & edgy????
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Will Moses kick Pharoah down a well?"THIS IS ISRAEL!!!"
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...the zombie uprising plague after all the first born sons die?
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hijacked by jesus freaks
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...and cast a woman as Moses!! Yeah...and lets make her nude...yeah....and black...yeah...and she can be Beyonce....yeah...lets put that drug dealer 50 cent in there....yeah...and bah....what am I saying....this a bad idea if ever there was one. This will be a bad movie that will cost over $150 million to make but will open at only $40 million...why can't the studios just make original movies...? Why? WHY????
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before the talking skull realised that big green swamp dwelling ogres make big mullah. and before the talking skull ditched 2d animaion. now disney are doing 2d again. jeffrey the talking skull must be sick. idiot.
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Pharaoh: The Hebrews are MY people!
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no one gets worked up if it's just Moses. You can talk Moses and God all day but Jesus "is not all right" with Hollywood. Dooby bros yes, Hollywood no.
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Sad but true.
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So they're gonna 300 everything up eh? How the heck does this work? It depends on how much they're putting in there. Does it just cover Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt? Or does it cover their time in the desert, conflicts with surroundign enemies and eventually reaching the Promised Land? Does it cover all of Moses' life until Joshua takes over? That's the only opportunity I see there for any 300 esque action. Also you're gonna have to leave the gratuitous female nudity out of this one. Though historically, some Egyptian chicks walked around bare brested sometimes, probably in the courts, and there is subject matter involving sex and idolatry along the way. Anyway this is either R-rated or bust. And there's so much they could do with it thematically and spiritually. Give it to a director/team who isn't a hack and is a committed Christian who'll do it well. Mel Gibson did an awesome job with Passion of the Christ, in fact if they're going all Braveheart with this one, just get him to do it!
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. . . the story of Moses will never be told properly w/out CGI blood splatters.
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http://tinyurl.com/yfhjex6
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At this time of day? I thought Whodini said "The Freaks Come Out at Night"
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Oct 12, 2009 11:21:50 AM CDT
Something tells me that Gibson probably won't be interested...
by rbatty024
in retelling an Old Testament tale.
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No one here cares.
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...and cut his head off.
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What the fuck are they doing?
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Christian Bale's name sounds WAY too new testament.
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IN SPACE!!Capt. Moses Lieberman travels from galaxy to galaxy, collecting two of each alien species, until he reaches LV-426...and all hell breaks loose.
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DYNAMITE! DYNAMITE!
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... that the story of Moses is fiction, then say something.If not, you come of as a pretentious douchebag, which you probably are.
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not Moses.
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You all might've seen the leaked version, but here it is in all it's official glory:
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My religious bad.
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Oct 12, 2009 11:31:28 AM CDT
Yeah, and while your at it, prove that Xenu does not exist.
by rbatty024
And the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy while you're at it.
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Adrian Brody(sp).
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Oct 12, 2009 11:35:57 AM CDT
An Arab-ass kickin Jew! This is what I am talking about!
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
I am there!
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whether the Exodus story is true or false. The Easter Bunny in the other hand, the Evil Monkey in my closet introduced him to me a few years ago. They were doing Quaalude's, talking shit about Santa.
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How they ruled Egypt with an Iron Fist and then were ran out of the country but not before making off with most of the treasure.
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But the movie could be remastered with some better effects and more realistic backgrounds. No need to change the story or actors.
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"Let my people stay!!!!"
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Yay! I want to see your movie! Oh and by the way everyone else, V'Shael was probably just being a little satirical. Try a bit of Steve Chillage why dontcha.
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Fuck me.
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"Where's your Messiah now?"
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drugged-out freak, leading his peeps on a burning-man trip-out in the desert.
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...his hatred and fear of black people anymore. He used to wait for articles about black people to start posting random unrelated shit about black celebrities. Guess he got tired of waiting.
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I liked the Demille/Heston version, even if it's bible crap.
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I would much rather have Hollywood ruin the Bible than destroy a goddamn masterpiece.
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Actually, right after the Passion of the Christ came out, Mel was pretty hot on doing a film about Judas Maccabeus, based on the book of Maccabees, which is basically the Hanukkah story. Mel Gibson would be a great choice for director. Liev Schreiber should play Moses.
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Oct 12, 2009 11:52:09 AM CDT
Hey! it's me ol pal BringingNaziBack!
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
How you be BNB? Racist? Moi? perish forbid.
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That they don't give this the Fuqua "King Arthur" treatment and take all the magic/godly-action out of the story. There is no true historical Moses (that we know of that is), so please give us the staff-wielding, Red Sea parting one we're used to. If they do otherwise this will bomb, since the people most interested in it will most likely be of a religious persuasion anyway. Also, it'd be nice to see some actual Middle Eastern actors in the roles this time! I turned off my set in disgust when I saw Dougray Scott and his celtic brogue pretending to be an Egyptian prince. I nominate Oded Fehr (an actual Israeli).
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I didn't realize one of the talkbackers was named Kobe....but still.
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"Then we will starve in the shade."Zing!
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it has to be anthony hopkins. no hopkins, no movie. he was born to play the role.
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I doubt that Stalkeyes post was aimed at me.
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Oct 12, 2009 12:00:28 PM CDT
"we will not be afraid of the terror by niiiiggggghhhhtttttt"
by tall_boy66
As long as they have Moses doing some solo singing, I'm cool with that.
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Liberal retelling of Biblical history. I'm sure they'll make Moses gay or something.
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May be spot on. I've always suspected that that race of Semitic wanderers who briefly ruled Egypt may have been the basis for the Exodus story of an exiled jewish Prince.
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At least then it will be an R-rated violent epic!!!! And what more can you ask of a biblical film!!!
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a new movie to play every Christmas.
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Osvaldo Miranda!!!!!!
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Oct 12, 2009 12:07:17 PM CDT
"The goal is to give a 'Braveheart' feel to the story"
by kevin_costners_recycled_piss
Fuuuuuuuuuuccccckkk yoooooooou
Seriously, are these guys just a bunch of no talent hacks that they can only get their ideas from watching other movies?
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Really? And that's a good idea how? Maybe the eye patch guy can retell this story too.
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...Just give him time to get his hand out of Jodie Foster's Beaver! He will need to wash and disinfect his hand, then he can devote his full attention to turning the Moses myth into the ass-kicking bloody nutbuster that it was always meant to be!
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Oct 12, 2009 12:11:52 PM CDT
I see nothing wrong with a big budget Biblespectacular!
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
Yeah, I know ancient Egyptians aint Arabs, but still, having a powerful Jewish figure from antiquity beating the hell out of the pre-cursor to modern day Arabs will tickle a fancy or two! Throw in some of that orgy shit that happened when ol mose went to the mount, and holy shit! I repeat. I. Am. There!
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"Behold! Hold hold hold hold hold hold hold!!!!!
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as Moses? That would be pretty cool.
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..If you can't, does that mean they are real? Come on guys, this stuff is about as true as any ancient mythology. Clearly, it was written to express a united Hebrew culture born out of slavery, in order to legitimise claims to a God given homeland (Sound familiar?). Consider the ill-fated Midianites if you think this story is anything but a blood soaked revenge fantasy, perpetrated by Moses on the orders of a very jealous and petty god. I'm not making this stuff up. Someone else did..
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Oh, whats the matter boo-boo, Prince of Persia not enough for you? You can't share baby snooks?
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To be a place where the writers, directors, producers, and studio executives can between them actually dredge up an original idea!
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And instead of parting the Red Sea, he'll part the Republican Party into Republicans and Batshit Wacko Extremists.
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Then he kicks the Pharoah into a big well.
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in 3d no less.
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Hank Azaria as Ramses, Marlon Wayans as the lovable rapping Nubian thief, Steve Carell in drag as Miriam, and Samuel L. Jackson as the volatile, abusive God of the Old Testament! "Say 'Promised Land' one more time! I dare you! I double dare you motherfucker!"
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"You want I should carry these heavy commandments and hurt my back?"
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As Moses parts the Red Sea....
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Hey dude, please see my post at 11:08:11 AM. Remember to always read a Talkback before posting.
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As a naked scantily clothed Hebrew slave writhes and moans in exaggerated simulated sexually suggestive slo-motion for no narrative reason whatsoever.
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THIS....IS....MY APOLOGY!!!!!!
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Oct 12, 2009 12:29:14 PM CDT
As long as it has "Based on a True Story" in the opening credits
by henamonster
I'm with V'Shael. Maybe they can even have a throw-down with Bigfoot while they're at it.
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..while accurate to the source material, would most surely fail at the b.o. There certainly are some bloodthirst geeks on here! It has to be accessible to the masses and to the religious crowds. Passion of the Christ only worked because that crowd is familiar with the harshness of Jesus's story; however they usual gloss over the violence of the old testament.
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THIS...IS...MY ACCEPTANCE!!!
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...or Will Smith.
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...of the Covenant as a tool for keeping the Israelites in-line during their time in the desert. Perhaps they'll show how he used ancient Egyptian priest blueprints for making a levitating super-conductor weapon from wood, gold, and a radioactive meteor. Perhaps they'll show how he fucked his face up with radiation burns before he came down the mountain with the 10 Commandments...
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Oct 12, 2009 12:39:16 PM CDT
So, lemee get this straight. Mr. Nice Gaius owns cap lock?
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
THIS...IS...UNACCEPTABLE! I...REFUSE...TO..PAY...FOR...PLAY! I did that once, and I wound up with a really bad rash. BNB don't do it! You know you are thinking it, but don't do it!
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Maybe they can also make Moses into Venom, tie it into MNG's radioactive meteor bit.
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Would make an awesome Mozes. Also, with this and that Coen thing, it's gonna be a big year for the Jews.
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I ain't kidding about that meteor stuff!
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I did not understand the CAP LOCK reason about why MJ apologized. I suppose it has to do with 300? I did not see that movie.
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The wig would protect everyone from MNG's deadly meteor. Also the venom suit.
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The Wicker Man II: Leaving Las Luxor
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Oct 12, 2009 12:51:41 PM CDT
THE ONLY THING I WANT TO SEE PARTED IS SIENNA MILLER'S ASS
by bringingsexyback
Let's hope we get that in GI Joe II.
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Ah, nothing to do with CAP LOCK. MJohnson had unknowingly used the same joke I used earlier in the thread.
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Oct 12, 2009 12:55:31 PM CDT
I rarely agree with BNB, but hallelujah on Sienna Millers ass!
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
See, even ancient enemies can share an appreciation of a fine donkey!
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Yeah my first thought when I saw this headline was that Moses will know a special secret Hebrew martial art and beat the living crap out of whole armies by himself.
"Locusts shall blot out the sun."
by Tell_Your_Mom_I_Said_Hi
...then we shall pray in the shade.
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THEN...I...STAND...CORRECTED
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"What my God DOES have ... is a very specific set of skills. Skills that will make life a nightmare for a Pharoh such as yourself."
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Get Keanu Reeves, please. "Woah. I know kung-fu. Like, let my people go, Pharaoh!"
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"Let me give you a little inside information about God. God likes to watch. He's a prankster. Think about it. He gives man instincts. He gives you this extraordinary gift, and then what does He do, I swear for His own amusement, his own private, cosmic gag reel, He sets the rules in opposition. It's the goof of all time. Look but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, don't swallow. And while you're jumpin' from one foot to the next, what is he doing? He's laughin' His sick, fuckin' ass off!!! He's a tight-ass! He's a SADIST! He's an absentee landlord! Worship that? NEVER!!!"
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Cancel that fucking "n".
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Moses catches a wave on his parted sea. Woah.
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It's all linked to Keanu. He is the chosen one. Follow the rabbit.
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what?
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...cause Fan Boys proved he can kick butt.
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Since there probably was no Moses, and since his story was likely lifted from the story of Sargon, Fox should just tell 'the real story.' Fucking idiot Fox fuckers don't even know. About anything.
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That way the movie going public can have a choice about what fictional mythology they want to see.
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or robert hardy. or bernard hill. dickie attenborough. there only one person who is capable of carrying this off. brian blessed.
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"Caligula had the best orgy of all time! All time!"
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Moses will be sporting some anachronistic armor from the middle ages and be played by an Aussie with a buzz cut? (Yes I'm still angry about that COTT thing).
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lmfao are you serious? are you fucking serious? really are you fucking kidding me? -----Slow Mo and blood splatter does not the Ten Commandments make.
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Doesn't ring a bell. Isn't he like Santa or some shit?
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"The Brahmans had the greatest commandments of all time! All time!!"
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rotfl
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endless amounts of Modest Mouse and wear plaid shirts like Bob Vila. An offer you can't refuse.
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where?
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Prince of Egypt was actually a really entertaining telling of the story, one of their best animated movies before they went all 3D...
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.... needed to direct/write etc? We're talking old testament, so maybe you meant "committed Jew"? Hollywood's full of 'em. Why can only a Christian "get it right"? Gibson's "Passion of the Christ" was 'a great job'? Well yeah I guess, if you're into torture-porn & snuff films.
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that this will be better than The Prince of Egypt. I mean they'd really have be fucking trying.
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needs more emo vampires.
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grumble...grumble..Let my people...grumble...grumble
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by a radioactive snake! Becomes Snake-Man. Or how about a duel of the staffs? Nah, too gay for the masses. Wait, "Light-Staffs"! "I have Jew now..."
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Isn't it about time Hollywood treated it like every other book and comic? Just ignore it and come up with some whacked out shit, but call it "Moses".
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He's played the role twice (Once in a movie, other in a stage production), so maybe the third times' a charm. :D
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"I said a ten-*second* chariot, not a ten-*minute* chariot!"
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Oct 12, 2009 2:52:45 PM CDT
"I like going into a Jewish/Christian-centric TB and hating..."
by cletus van damme
Don't believe? That's great, whatever works for you. Just pass this TB by. Why do so many atheists, agnostics and the like feel the need to bash in TBs like this? Is this a cry for help or what?
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Moses...shirtless and oily...kickin' ass with his staff...
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I'm always baffled by that one, can someone explain it to me? Now the real ancient greeks, of course. But where was all the supposed gayness in this film?
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Oct 12, 2009 3:01:13 PM CDT
*EXCLUSIVE* the first line from the 300-themed Moby Dick screenp
by thebaxter
"Call... Me... ISHMAEL!!!!!!!!!"
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Please say it's Michael Bay. Please!
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Idk. The fact that it was '300.' I hope that atleast slightly helps.
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...only come out like 8 years ago?
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He's already done it vocally, now let the Lizard King part the sea in celluloid also. They still use celluloid right?
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I'm especially eager to see his teenage days and his relationship with a young Lex Luthor.
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I don't care what Hollywood thinks it can do to improve. update, cool-ify "The Ten Commandments" by DeMille. You want to rape a classic ? That would be the result of this re-imagining. RAPE, pure and simple. So ... HELL NO ! That is all.
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First he tells them not to kill. Not to covet a neighbor's property.
That he will take them to a place of milk and honey he has prepared for them. That's when he is talking to Moses.
Then after Moses dies and he's talking to Joshua he tells him to go and kill everyone in this city they happen upon after wandering in the desert and take it from them.
In other words break my commandments.
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mosses with a scottish accent.
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rather than go with the Relig debates. It's too early and I'm too sober.
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"Let the Hebrewsh, go, Ramshesh, or my Lord will rain down ten plaugesh upon you, ya cunt"!
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I wonder if the ten commandments were about how to treat people in the same tribe, but God as presented in the OT didn't care what they did so much to other people? I dunno.
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"They can't hold it much longer!"
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No? Why not?
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Which means, "No White guys"!! Gotta be someone of Middle Eastern heritage. What about the guy from the Mummy?
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Oct 12, 2009 4:24:59 PM CDT
THE BOOK OF ENOCH would be way way way fucking cooler.
by the green gargantua
just sayin.
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I'm still waiting for History of the World Part II
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McG do this. At least then we'd get a cgi, Heston cameo.
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I love how they get a little commie-bashing in at the end of the "trailer"
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Oct 12, 2009 4:37:52 PM CDT
Actually, I always wanted to see a 300 style remake of...
by thenorthlander
...Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
I AM ARTHUR, KING OF THE BRITONS - AND THIS! IS! PATSY! -
He was reborn for that role.
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And was the first black leader of the Jewish people
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Zac Efron as Moses muhahahahahaaaa True
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Oct 12, 2009 4:54:06 PM CDT
THE OTHER THING I WANT TO SEE PARTED IS ZOOEY DESCHANEL'S
by bringingsexyback
pooper.
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jus'sayin'
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Moby Dick sounds kinda cool actually. http://sickpicks.blogspot.com/
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"I...am...BEOWULF!" "This...is...SPARTA!""We...are...LYCANS!"Was Kirk's "KHAAAAN!" the first time?
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Hugh Jackman as "Moses"
Gerard Butler as "Ramses"
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Liam Neeson as "Ahab"
Thomas Jane as "Ishmeal"
Ralph Fiennes as "Starbuck"
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I hope the Passion sequel follows Joseph Smith JR.
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Not a white man this time. Moses and his people were brown.
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One can only hope! After all the 54 version is sooo flawed!
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Since we're still casting people from Orange County to portray people from Africa.
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Matt Broderick as Rameses.
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An arch-nemesis for 50 Cent's Moses!
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After all, he was actually there at the time.
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Hey, I'm not racist. I'm just sayin'.
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YOUR POST WAS STUNNINGLY UNORIGINAL AND MUNDANE AND HAD THE MARK OF A DULLARD'S MIND, YET I GIGGLED LIKE A JAPANESE SCHOOLGIRL.
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And AGES IN CHAOS. Truly weird cosmic conspiratory fable/garbled history. Way weirder than the Bible version. Throw in space aliens, alternate realities, Moses doing psychedelics. Don't hold back!
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Adam Sandler as Moses.
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If it's an action packed Moses flick, I might see it.
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Now we see why Rogen has slimmed down to play the greatest Jew Hero ever.
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Cut the bullrushes.
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Oct 12, 2009 9:54:48 PM CDT
Who'd make a good Moses? Samuel L. Jackson.
by johndillingers20inchseveredcock
He could be Ultimate Moses.
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After he turns his staff into a snake and Pharaoh's magicians mock him by doing the same thing he can turn his snake into a fist and punch the Egyptian snakes!
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If shumbody shtabs yu in da eye, you shtab him in both eyes! If shumbody shtabs you in both eyes, you shtone his wife, sacficshe his childrn. That's the Hebrew way!
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Oct 12, 2009 10:12:43 PM CDT
I thought Hollywood stopped having anything to do with the Bible
by the_crimson_king
I know the story of Moses is in the old testament, but it's still part of the Bible
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Put long hair and a beard on Saul Tigh, and I'd buy it.
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He says, "I have a bad feeling about this," when the Red Sea parts.
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LET MY PEOPLE COME as I watch flaccidly from my Jazzy Select GT Power Chair.
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kind of like Larry David as Larry David on Curb? I think it'd work.
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Can Baltar be the voice of the burning bush and state "this has happened before and it will happen again"? Oh, and replace the green fog with Tricia Helfer holding a burning sword striking down anyone she sees as the Angel of Death... Hmmm... I actually kinda like that last part
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while striking people down??? That would be exceedingly cool.
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excellent written Connery impersonation. i liked that;)
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http://www.ensignmessage.com/archives/exodusscptcs.html
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Oprah's Moses, Moses will of course be played by her modest self.
In her reimaginaning of the tale Moses is in fact a gay black woman, who manages to free her people's freedom by magically providing the Egyptian people lots of stuff. "wow a new carriage, and wait a horse too!!, we love you Moses you and your people are free!!!".
The Ten commandments will of course feature Moses on the cover.
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Pertinent article I thought was interesting.
The Hyksos were brought up... here's an article speculating about who they might be and tying it to the Exodus (and yes it comes from a christian site) http://tinyurl.com/yfkjxls -
Didn't they just remake this as a tv movie a couple years back? (haven't read this whole talkback yet)
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Can I request the one about Lot's daughters, will be great family viewing!!
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Oct 13, 2009 3:18:12 AM CDT
The Lord, the Lord Jehovah has given unto you these fifteen...
by dingbatty
*crash!*Oy! Ten! Ten commandments for all to obey!
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As a kickass jew!
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Awesome retelling of the Moses story.
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Moses: Josh Brolin
Rameses: Javier Bardem
Sethi: Ben Kingsley
Dathan: Ian McShane
Nefretiri: Emmanuelle Chriqui
Sephora: Thandie Newton
Joshua: Jack Houston
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Seems like the strongest of all the "Exodus" theories. Not only were they of Semitic descent, but they also worshipped a Caananite pantheon of deities. (Caanaan of course being the biblical promised land) Definitely will be checking out that link, thanks!
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Oct 13, 2009 7:32:08 AM CDT
HOW ABOUT A MOVIE ABOUT A JEWISH BABY NAMED SABOURJIAN
by bringingsexyback
born in Persia around the time the Jews returned to Israel. His parents convert him to Islam, and he grows up to one day become the President of Iran, ruling over the land with an iron fist. He also becomes the world's most outspoken agitator and enemy of Israel, the self-described land of his own forebears.
Sounds absolutely Biblical to me.
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He'll look just like the guy who played King Tut in the old Batman TV series. It's all about historical accuracy.
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I like that. I like that a lot.
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u know with lasers,clones,starships,green sex slaves,the promised land as the mcgufin device,a lot of explosions and total destruction of earth,bababoom bababing,wookies and jar jar binks,laserswords and giant robots and will farrell as the voice of God? why the hell not?
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Oct 13, 2009 8:01:05 AM CDT
it's so obvious, I can't believe no one has mentioned it
by just pillow talk
Warwick Davis as Moses.Plain as day.
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of the flaming leg kick?
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Moses took his jewish slaves ruined his plans for an egyptian theme park with pyramids,so he is after him to take his revenge.
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I read a book once that actually took an approach like that to Noah. Don't remember if it was a "what if it happened in the future instead of the past" story, but had Noah, made a mention of Nephalim (similar to the mysterious mention in the bible), etc
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TAINT?!? Damn, there's another lost bet. This is getting expensive...
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Because Arnold Schwartznegger, would have kicked ass, as Moses.
"Remember, Pharaoh, when I promised to kill you last? I lied!"
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They can have Moses espouse our god given right to bare arms until they are pried away from our cold, dead hands before we kick the living shit out of the egyptians with AK47's and... oops... wait... Heston's hands are cold and dead... nevermind
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The story of Moses is one of the least interesting narratives in the Bible. If you wanna make a cool Bible movie, there are way better bits you could start with.
The time period from Abraham right up to Moses has lots of sex, violence, and treachery.
How about a movie that assumes Solomon is the author of both the joyous Song of Songs and the depressingly pessimistic Ecclesiastes, and then fictionalizes a narrative to explain how he could be such a sourpuss and such a poet at the same time.
But the best sources for big screen Bible action are the oodles of fun characters in Judges. Ehud's my favourite, what with the sword through the belly of the fat king sitting on the crapper, but there are others.
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i say hire the pythons.
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Since the story of Moses comes from the Torah (or what Christians call the Old Testament) I think it would be great if it was written, directed, and starring Jews (not all the cast, but at least Moses).
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far out.
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ya...lets totally eff up the story, even more than demille did if we go by the stories passed down, moses was in fact not a great orator and aaron (his bro) did all the talking
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Mel Gibson should play Moses and Aaron his brother should be Russell Crowe. They are about the right age for the Exodus story and could pass for brothers. Aaron is a great speaker and Moses can not speak well, a fact ignored by the original movie. Pharoah should be played by Arnold Vosloo, duh.
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someone's already said this, but I feel I need to just say it again: Worst idea ever, on both counts. What is wrong with our society that we have to "300"-ize these stories? Really? That makes sense?
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I'm sure I'm not the first to make this joke, but I still say it should be the title of any new Moses movie.
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I don't think anybody can top The Ten Commandments and trying to do the Moses story 300-style would just be disturbing.
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How about a Tarantino version where a group of rag-tag Hebrew fighters go into Egypt and KICK SOME ASS!
Actually the History Channel did a really cool story on how Exodus could be intrepreted as military operations - less miracles more strategery..
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