Will Smith Signs On For The Last Pharaoh
September 9, 2008
Will Smith is reportedly set to achieve one of his biggest ambitions – to play Egyptian pharaoh Taharqa on the big screen.
Smith has been cast as the ancient ruler in ‘Braveheart’ writer Randall Wallace’s new movie ‘The Last Pharaoh.’
Variety.com reports that Smith has long wanted to play Taharqa and was instrumental in getting Wallace to write the screenplay.
The film will focus on Taharqa, who ruled Egypt from 690BC until 664BC, and his fierce battles with Assyrian king Esarhaddon.
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July 5th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
What a pity that this film is going to concentrate on Taharqa’s battles with Esarhadden instead of a far more thrilling film where PRINCE Taharqa rescued Jerusalem and saved Judahite King Hezekiah’s throne from the murderous clutches of that sadistic Assyrian King Sennacherib in August 701 B. C. In the greatest whitewash in Biblical and secular history the Bible would have us believe that an angel struck Sennacherib’s men dead. The film’s producers are missing an opportunity to set the historical record straight. The Father of History, Herodotus says it was Taharqa that chased Sennacherib away from Judea, never to return.
June 15th, 2010 at 12:41 pm
it’s a shame but in of it’self a confirmation to see so many bible haters come out against the scriptures or leap at the opportunity to hide online blind snipers taking a shot at everything from race, sex and even the bible. the comment you made is an ignorant one in light of the fact that the Hebrew writers reported the Assyrian troops upon there arrival were struck down by the angel of death” and you say that it was the Nubian King Tahqara’s hand that assisted” well there you go either way they were struck down they did not enter into Jerusalem, this can be accounted for see the Thomas prism chronicling Sennacheribs conquests and how he caged up Hezekiah, but it never say’s that he conquered Jerusalm, those whitwashed fairy tale’s of the bible stands as it was written, it states that God moves the heart of Kings and Pharoh’s as he wishes to do good or evil it say that everything that has breath in it has it’s being in God as well as historical events which we try and pick apart from initiation to final conclusion, sequence by sequence deciding what to accept as literal or actual, fact from fiction in a world we neither created or sustain. Enough of the ignorant comment’s America get a life, and while your at it maybe even a book and read.
August 16th, 2010 at 4:17 pm
tahraga is a Sudanese Nubian king
not Egyptian
September 21st, 2010 at 6:48 pm
The history of a 25th Dynasty military expedition, led by a Kushite Suten (Pharaoh), dispatched to the Near East in 701 B.C.E, its destination corresponds to today Palestine/Israel. Its aim was to prevent the Assyrian King, Sennacherib, who god was Ashur, from carrying out a conquest of the last Canaanite strong hold, Jerusalem. This black-African mighty force intervention, led by the young military chief and nephew of Shabaka name was Nefertem Khu Re Taharka. This mission enabled the fragile, war-torn Hebrew kingdom to survive and nurse its self back to economic and demographic health. Thereby allowing the Hebrew religion, Yahwism (and their god YHWH), to evolve within the next several centuries into Iudaism (Judaism). From Judaism would off shoot Christianity and then later Islam. The story of this Kushite Army, following their god Amon, was widely known in the west until a century ago. One source, the bible 2Kings 19:35, Isa 37:36, now gives the credit to “the angel of the lord” rather than Taharka. Was this the same group of Hebrews that came into Kemet (Egypt) and resided on Elephantine (Beggar) Island in Aswan to later go on into Gondar Ethiopia? Taharka wpuld again win in battle against the Assyrian King Esarhaddon in 674 B.C.E.
Will Smith playing Taharka could be misleading. Taharka coming from now Nubia Sudan area would have been a Jet Black complexion who wives and off springs would have been too. Mixing was not popular with this group during that period.
October 19th, 2010 at 9:36 pm
Most erocentric historians tend to leave out that the egyptians called the Nubians to helped them drive out the libyans of the 24th dynasty.Shabaka burned a libyan alive to prove they wasn’t kidding around.
October 19th, 2010 at 11:04 pm
Will Smith should know that much picketing of movie houses will occur if they leave out the events of 701. If you can’t tell it right then it want sell on opening nite.