{"id":67,"date":"2010-04-10T21:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T21:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2010\/04\/rome-producer-tackles-the-pharaohs\/"},"modified":"2010-04-10T21:53:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T21:53:00","slug":"rome-producer-tackles-the-pharaohs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2010\/04\/rome-producer-tackles-the-pharaohs.html","title":{"rendered":"Rome producer tackles the Pharaohs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Variety<\/a><\/i> reports that John Milius, co-creator of the HBO series Rome<\/a><\/i> (a feature-film version of which is still in active development<\/a>, by the way), has signed on to produce another ancient-history series called Pharaoh<\/i>:<\/p>\n

Like \u201cRome,\u201d \u201cPharaoh\u201d homes in on one dramatic period: the New Kingdom that began in 1479 B.C. with the reign of Queen Hatshepsut, a rare female pharaoh, who ruled as regent until her nephew, Thutmosis III, took the throne.<\/p>\n

The mighty warrior pharaoh created the largest empire ancient Egypt had ever seen, an international super-power sprawling from southern Syria to northern Sudan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is very interesting to me, as I read quite a bit about Hatshepsut<\/a> (pictured above) and Thutmose III<\/a> when I was 14 years old, as research for a \u201cnovel\u201d that I wrote back then about the early years of Moses\u2019 life. Most fictionalizations of Moses\u2019 life have linked it to the reign of Rameses II<\/a>, who lived in the 1200s BC; but at the time, I was persuaded that Moses had lived a couple hundred years earlier than that, and I even toyed with the idea that Hatshepsut herself had been Moses\u2019 adoptive mother.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t subscribe to those theories any more, and I certainly don\u2019t expect this new series to go in that<\/i> direction, but I am still kind of excited by the possibility that this rather obscure part of Egyptian history (obscure from a pop-culture perspective, that is) may finally be getting some dramatic attention.<\/p>\n

For a better sense of what the series will<\/i> be about, here is another excerpt from the Variety<\/i> story:<\/p>\n

\u201cPharaoh,\u201d like \u201cRome,\u201d will mix \u201ccharacters at all levels of life,\u201d says Milius, historical and fictional figures, common people with which audiences can identify.<\/p>\n

One will be a tomb-robber, Milius suggests, others a priest, soldiers and merchants, says Sichler.<\/p>\n

Milius believes today\u2019s auds will identify with much of the ancient Egyptian lifestyle.<\/p>\n

\u201cEgyptian civilization is remakarbly modern. Egypt\u2019s dealings with other powers, the Syrians, Metannites, Babylonian civilizations, are strikingly contemporary in their arguments, their distrust for each other, their building up of separate cultures,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cPharaoh\u201d stands apart in some ways from \u201cRome,\u201d however.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s important in Egypt compared to Rome is the mysticism, the relationship to death, mummification, to life after death,\u201d says Sichler.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sounds fascinating. I\u2019m already looking forward to the DVD and all the inevitable history-oriented bonus features.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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