{"id":1231,"date":"2007-11-12T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/11\/ridley-scott-and-the-ancient-religious-sites\/"},"modified":"2007-11-12T23:30:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T23:30:00","slug":"ridley-scott-and-the-ancient-religious-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/11\/ridley-scott-and-the-ancient-religious-sites.html","title":{"rendered":"Ridley Scott and the ancient religious sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/RzlWBK7iIQI\/AAAAAAAAA1A\/Iu3P2iUETtw\/s1600-h\/Stonehenge_back_wide-a.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/RzlWBK7iIQI\/AAAAAAAAA1A\/Iu3P2iUETtw\/s400\/Stonehenge_back_wide-a.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br><span style=\"font-family: georgia\">I like ancient history and mythology and archaeology, so I get a small kick out of the news that <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/05\/yet-another-kingdom-of-heaven-article.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ridley Scott<\/a> is attached to direct <i>Stones<\/i>, a \u201csupernatural thriller\u201d the development of which is currently on hold due to the writers\u2019 strike.  <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1117975837.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Variety<\/a><\/i> reports:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Project is a big-scale supernatural thriller revolving around the mysterious destruction of ancient religious sites around the world. It turns out that Stonehenge is the tie that binds together artifacts that still have primeval powers.<\/p>\n<p>[Screenwriter Matt] Cirulnick got the assignment after scripting \u201cElysium\u201d for New Regency, a film that weaves Greek mythology into a drama. He fixed on the idea that Stonehenge, the great pyramids and other artifacts were built for a specific unified purpose. . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Scott, who currently has two movies on the big screen \u2014 namely <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/denzel-and-travolta-team-up-for-pelham.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">American Gangster<\/a><\/i> and <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/09\/newsbites-narnia-reviews-clones-tree.html#4\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Blade Runner: The Final Cut<\/a><\/i> \u2014 will direct this movie after finishing <i>Body of Lies<\/i> and <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/more-revisionist-medievalism-from.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Nottingham<\/a><\/i>.  Let\u2019s just hope <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/indiana-jones-iv-teaser-outline-now.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull<\/a><\/i>, which reportedly may also link a few ancient religious mysteries together, hasn\u2019t stolen too much of Scott\u2019s thunder by then.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like ancient history and mythology and archaeology, so I get a small kick out of the news that Ridley Scott is attached to direct Stones, a \u201csupernatural thriller\u201d the development of which is currently on hold due to the writers\u2019 strike. Variety reports: Project is a big-scale supernatural thriller revolving around the mysterious destruction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ridley Scott and the ancient religious sites<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I like ancient history and mythology and archaeology, so I get a small kick out of the news that Ridley Scott is attached to direct Stones, a\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/11\/ridley-scott-and-the-ancient-religious-sites.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ridley Scott and the ancient religious sites\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I like ancient history and mythology and archaeology, so I get a small kick out of the news that Ridley Scott is attached to direct Stones, a\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/11\/ridley-scott-and-the-ancient-religious-sites.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"FilmChat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2007-11-12T23:30:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/RzlWBK7iIQI\/AAAAAAAAA1A\/Iu3P2iUETtw\/s400\/Stonehenge_back_wide-a.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Peter T. 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