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Old 03-19-04, 04:19 PM
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Kingdom of Heaven

picked this up from Time magazine

KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
Ridley Scott will direct this epic of the Crusades, starring Orlando Bloom and Jeremy Irons, scheduled for a May 2005 release

wait a minute, Ridley Scott directing a Crusade movie? WOOOT! man, this is a movie to watch!

anyway, here's the rest of the article

N O T E B O O K
A Passion For Profits
By JEFFREY RESSNER

Monday, Mar. 22, 2004

Mel Gibson's controversial The Passion Of The Christ has earned $250 million at the U.S. box office in just three weeks. Reverent Hollywood moguls are now combing through the Scriptures for other projects with religious themes. ABC started the procession with its long-shelved telefilm Judas, left, which aired to middling ratings a week ago. Film versions of the best seller The Da Vinci Code (to be directed by Ron Howard) and The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis' Christian-themed children's epic, are also in the works. More fare for the faithful is on the way.

DAUGHTER OF GOD
Reality-show producer Mark Burnett has just optioned Lewis Perdue's religious thriller about a female messiah

BARABBAS
Anthony Quinn starred in a 1962 biopic about the thief set free in place of Jesus. A major producer is pitching a remake

REVELATIONS
Shooting will begin later in the month on this pilot for an NBC mini-series, a modern take on the biblical struggle between God and the Devil
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Sounds more like a popcorn film like Troy than a serious move like passion. If they want to make a movie similar to passion there are a lot of better source materials. I'd rather see Dante's Comedia or Paradise Lost. I think Milton's work would be nice if someone put up the money to create the CGI for the author's idea of heaven and hell and the war between the angels.

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