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.