Woe Unto Ye, O Warner Bros.!
Deadline‘s Michael Fleming is reporting that the new life-of-Moses movie, which Warner Bros. is allegedly trying to get Steven Spielberg to direct (yecch!), is “not a remake of the 1956 Cecile B. DeMille-directed The Ten Commandments.” And yet it covers “Moses from birth to death” including “his awakening to the plight of the Hebrew slaves that led Moses’ struggle against the Pharaoh for their freedom out of Egypt, the Burning Bush, the Ten Plagues, the daring escape across the Red Sea, receiving the Ten Commandments, and delivery to Israel.” Which is precisely what the DeMille film covers, so what’ll different about this one, Mike, besides less corny dialogue? We all know the answer: better visual FX.
UPDATE: the “Gurus of Gold” have just listed it as a likely Best Picture nominee for 2015.
The first ever DreamWorks cartoon, The Prince of Egypt, actually handled all this stuff quite well. I don’t see that Spielberg will be that interested in revisiting it only a decade or so later, given that he was fairly heavily involved in every DW release at that point.
Mr. F FTW
This is the answer to Jim Stewart’s query six Oscar telecasts ago. Spielberg’s “Jewish Trilogy” would be complete!
Given his religion and love for that era of filmmaking, maybe he’ll do it. Wouldn’t be for a long time though, but we all know his movie would be better than Demille’s by a wide margin
Mel Gibson is reportedly in talks to play Rameses.
I’d prefer STEVEN SPIELBERG’S “JEWS IN SPACE.”
I believe in this version Moses will for once actually be played by a Jew.
Maybe he’ll tell it from the perspective of a horse in the Egyptian cavalry.