Take cover! Producer Oscar Zoghbi announced today that a biopic of the Prophet Mohammed called The Messenger of Peace is now being scripted. The film will be a remake of the 1976 film The Message. That film was well-received in the Middle East, but in Washington, D.C., the Black Panthers killed two and took 149 others hostage in response to the rumored casting of Anthony Quinn as Mohammed (he actually played a different role). Note this, too: The director of The Message, Moustapha Akkad, went on to produce the Halloween franchise.
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