We’ve been hearing about several upcoming attempts at Old Hollywood-style Biblical epics — not only Mel Gibson‘s controversial Judah Maccabee project but also Paradise Lost and Darren Aronofsky‘s Noah film — and Warner Bros. is seeking to add another to that list: Deadline reports that Warner Bros. is pursuing Steven Spielberg to direct Gods and Kings, a re-telling of the life of Moses (already done twice by Cecil B. DeMille as The Ten Commandments in 1923 and 1956).
Producers Dan Lin and Matti Lesham are seeking Spielberg — who has already read the script by Michael Green and Stuart Hazeldine (Hazeldine also wrote Paradise Lost) — because the obvious star power he’d bring to the project. Spielberg is a student of film and I think a Biblical epic is one of the few genres he hasn’t gotten around to tackling yet, so I can certainly imagine this project interesting him.
Whether audiences respond to a Biblical epic like they did in the 1950s is a major question, of course.
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