Mel Gibson: Judah Maccabee

[Malthus]

This should work well:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/sep/09/mel-gibson-direct-judah-maccabee

In what is sure to be seen as an increasingly desperate attempt to rehabilitate himself within the Hollywood community, it has been annouced that Mel Gibson may direct and star in a film based on the exploits of legendary Jewish warrior Judah Maccabee.

Maccabee was the prime mover in the successful 167BC revolt of the Judean state against the Seleucid empire, which had conquered the region at the beginning of the 2nd century BC. The Jewish festival of Hanukah is a commemoration of Maccabee's restoration of Jewish worship in the temple in Jerusalem in 165BC. In the modern era, Maccabee became a powerful symbolic figure for Zionist campaigners against the British authorities in the run-up to Israeli statehood in 1948.

The screenwriter is Joe Eszterhas. Of Showgirls fame.

What could possibly go wrong? 

[Eddie Teach]

Does Eszterhas know Aramaic/Hebrew or will Mel do the translations?

[Richard Hakluyt]

He'll need some British actors to play the Seleucids, that might help 

[Valmy]

Unless Antiochus IV Epiphanes speaks in authentic Macedonian Greek I am not going.

Which is hard because I do like the idea of a movie glorifying Middle Eastern terrorists.

[Valmy]

He'll need some British actors to play the Seleucids, that might help 

In the modern era, Maccabee became a powerful symbolic figure for Zionist campaigners against the British authorities in the run-up to Israeli statehood in 1948

Mel Gibson hates Jews but not nearly as much as he hates the English.

[Ideologue]

This should work well:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/sep/09/mel-gibson-direct-judah-maccabee

In what is sure to be seen as an increasingly desperate attempt to rehabilitate himself within the Hollywood community, it has been annouced that Mel Gibson may direct and star in a film based on the exploits of legendary Jewish warrior Judah Maccabee.

Maccabee was the prime mover in the successful 167BC revolt of the Judean state against the Seleucid empire, which had conquered the region at the beginning of the 2nd century BC. The Jewish festival of Hanukah is a commemoration of Maccabee's restoration of Jewish worship in the temple in Jerusalem in 165BC. In the modern era, Maccabee became a powerful symbolic figure for Zionist campaigners against the British authorities in the run-up to Israeli statehood in 1948.

The screenwriter is Joe Eszterhas. Of Showgirls fame.

What could possibly go wrong? 

You know, I'll watch it.  Other than the ending, which felt tacked on, I really liked Passion of the Christ.

[Martinus]

You know, I'll watch it.  Other than the ending, which felt tacked on, I really liked Passion of the Christ.

Worst Deus-ex-machina ending. EVER.

Not to mention a blatant set-up for a sequel filled with nothing but spectacular CGI.

[Ideologue]

I mean, yeah, I was being glib (it's an obvious joke, can't not make it, you know?), but it really is a fine film.

[Syt]

You know, I'll watch it.  Other than the ending, which felt tacked on, I really liked Passion of the Christ.

Worst Deus-ex-machina ending. EVER.

Not to mention a blatant set-up for a sequel filled with nothing but spectacular CGI.

http://videosift.com/video/Family-guy-Passion-of-the-Christ-2

[The Minsky Moment]

From Jesus to Judas.
Huh.

[viper37]

I wonder if the Seleucids will burn Jewish rebels in a synagogue...

[Richard Hakluyt]

You know, if this film was done well it would be brilliant, it is an awesome subject 

Though, as the Spartans said to Alexander......."If.".

[Ed Anger]

The jews will all talk in Geordie.

[Eddie Teach]

Apocalypto was pretty cool.

[Razgovory]

Was Judah Maccabee the one getting stepped by an elephant?