Post by politicidal on May 1, 2018 1:47:23 GMT
in his new project.
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And you’re also working on a project called Assassins. What can you tell us about that?
There’s always this question that has haunted me regarding radical Islamic terrorism, and that is: how did it all start? Essentially, Assassins is about this. It’s about the man who created this, a man called Hassan-e Sabbah. That was more than 1,000 years ago, but it’s how this whole story started. It’s really a brilliant story and mirrors exactly what is happening now, as if we were living in the same age. We know very little about how it all started, and I think we need tackle this much more. But at the same I think it’s a story that can attract a wide audience. So you have the perfect formula for a film.
So the actual origins of radical Islam can be traced back to Hassan-e Sabbah?
Yes. He’s the one who invented all of this.
In the book version of The Looming Tower, on which the recent TV series is based, it suggests that it dates back just 100 years…
The Looming Tower is a very good example. I think it’s a brilliant book. It traces it back to Sayyid Qutb and Hassan al-Banna in Egypt. But there are a lot of theories that say Hassan al-Banna might be copying Hassan-e Sabbah. Because when you put both together, you find a lot of similarities. Also, the interesting thing about this project is that there’s this story about two friends who became two rivals. One is Hassan-e Sabbah, who became this terrorist, and the other is Omar Khayyam, who was a philosopher, scientist, poet and a great dreamer. We have inherited a lot of his poems. So you have this relationship between two friends who became two rivals that represent two opposite ends of ideas.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/egyptian-filmmaker-marwan-hamed-assassins-his-epic-project-birth-radical-islam-1106365
TEXT:
And you’re also working on a project called Assassins. What can you tell us about that?
There’s always this question that has haunted me regarding radical Islamic terrorism, and that is: how did it all start? Essentially, Assassins is about this. It’s about the man who created this, a man called Hassan-e Sabbah. That was more than 1,000 years ago, but it’s how this whole story started. It’s really a brilliant story and mirrors exactly what is happening now, as if we were living in the same age. We know very little about how it all started, and I think we need tackle this much more. But at the same I think it’s a story that can attract a wide audience. So you have the perfect formula for a film.
So the actual origins of radical Islam can be traced back to Hassan-e Sabbah?
Yes. He’s the one who invented all of this.
In the book version of The Looming Tower, on which the recent TV series is based, it suggests that it dates back just 100 years…
The Looming Tower is a very good example. I think it’s a brilliant book. It traces it back to Sayyid Qutb and Hassan al-Banna in Egypt. But there are a lot of theories that say Hassan al-Banna might be copying Hassan-e Sabbah. Because when you put both together, you find a lot of similarities. Also, the interesting thing about this project is that there’s this story about two friends who became two rivals. One is Hassan-e Sabbah, who became this terrorist, and the other is Omar Khayyam, who was a philosopher, scientist, poet and a great dreamer. We have inherited a lot of his poems. So you have this relationship between two friends who became two rivals that represent two opposite ends of ideas.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/egyptian-filmmaker-marwan-hamed-assassins-his-epic-project-birth-radical-islam-1106365
