Remake of the 1970s Movie, “The Message”, soon to be produced
- Filed under: Documentary, History, Islam
- Date: Oct 28,2008 | 10:29 AM
I’m sure everyone and their entire family has seen the movie, “The Message”, about the birth of Islam in Arabia. It is sold at almost any Islamic conference that I have been to and bootlegged to the point that no one cares. You can watch it on Google video here. It is an excellent movie and I highly recommend it.
DUBAI (Reuters) – A movie drama about the life of the Prophet Mohammad is to go into production soon, and will be only the second English-language film of its kind ever made, its producers said on Monday.
“The Messenger of Peace” will be a remake of Moustapha Akkad’s “The Message,” a 1977 Hollywood classic starring Anthony Quinn which is often applauded by Muslims as an example of how commercial Western cinema can respect Islam.
“We have only the utmost respect for Akkad’s work but technology in cinema has advanced since the 1970s and this latest project will employ modern film techniques in its renewal of the first film’s core messages,” producer Oscar Zoghbi, who worked on the original, said in a statement
Source: Reuters
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11 Responses for "Remake of the 1970s Movie, “The Message”, soon to be produced"
thats very interesting.
So does that mean there will be excessive CGI and “bullet-time” ala The Matrix or 300?
I know no one’s going to portray the Prophet (pbuh) or any of the major Sahabah (Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, Ali), but what about some of the others?
Don Cheadle as Bilal
Oded Fehr (Yes, I know he’s Jewish) as Khalid ibn Walid
For the Quraish:
Sean Connery as Abu Talib
John Hurt as Abu Jahl
George Clooney (I know, ain’t never gonna happen) as Abu Sufyan.
hahaha don cheadle performing the adan like bilal impossible i’ll get a stunt double for those parts.
LOL . . . that’s like denzel performing surah fatiha in malcolm X
Astaghfirullah! This is blasphemous. We will boycott Dubai form now on.
Insha’Allah they wil remake this.
Just as long as they don’t “hollywood” up the movie
subhan Allah, a little side note here. Moustafa Akkad, who made this movie, was actually killed in 2005 in a suicide bomb attack by al-qaeda. his daughter was there and died with him. (may Allah bless them and raise them, ameen).
it is ironic to think that the producer of ‘the message’ died at the hands of people who misinterpreted it.
I heard that actually this film has no connection with the original Message and is an independant project, not linked with the Akkad’s. The original message team are claiming this project to live off the publicity of the first film, yet they have no budget yet.
Asalaam
Masha-Allah this is good news. Thanks for sharing.
I would love to watch it over and over again. I hope they keep it blessed and simple.
Peace.
w.s
how having mos def in the movie?
http://www.zawya.com/Story.cfm/sidZAWYA20081104052308/‘No%20remaking%20of%20The%20Message’%20%20
oops, I think we’re not gonna see any remake any time soon.
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