Qatar-based firm to produce US$1 bn Prophet Mohamed series

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Qatar-based firm to produce US$1 bn Prophet Mohamed series

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Qatar-based company Alnoor Holding has said it will raise the budget for a planned movie series on the life of Prophet Mohammed to US$1 billion dollars from the $1.5 million announced three years ago.

The biopics will be produced as a series of "seven films — instead of three films as per an earlier announcement — with a total budget of $1 billion," Alnoor chairman Ahmed Al-Hashemi said in a statement received by AFP on Tuesday.

The company said "the team of experts has finished writing the scenario after overcoming numerous artistic and dramatic challenges."

Alnoor announced in 2009 that it was seeking financing for the film series, to be produced by Barrie Osborne, a Hollywood veteran of more than 40 years whose credits include “Lord of the Rings” and “The Matrix.”

Mohamed himself will not appear in the films, out of respect for Islamic traditions forbidding images of the Prophet.

Prominent Qatar-based Sunni cleric Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, head of the Association of Muslim Scholars, will lead research on the film and serve as technical consultant on the project.

The company said the film will be in English and will be translated into several different languages "to correct the wrong image Western societies have of Islam."

Earlier this year, a US-produced low-budget movie called “Innocence of Muslims” that mocked Prophet Mohamed triggered a wave of deadly anti-US violence around the Islamic world.

Source: http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/qa ... med-series


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So making seven films starring ............................ er someone who isn't actually in them is going to
"correct the wrong image Western societies have of Islam."
Somehow I doubt it very much, 8) maybe a better choice of words would be "to correct the image that Islam portrays of itself to the West"
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Wonder who will star as the wives? Too bad Elizabeth Taylor has passed - she was an excellent Cleopatra and would have been my vote for Kadijah........and, as for the Aisha.......hmmmm - hows about Lady Gaga?
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