| by Michael Fleming - Variety For his first significant film project acquisition, Peter Chernin (the former chairman of Fox News Corp) is taking on a project of Biblical proportions. 20th Century Fox has made a preemptive acquisition of a pitch to tell the story of Moses in 300 style. The tale will start with his near death as an infant to his adoption into the Egyptian royal family, his defiance of the Pharoah and deliverance of the Hebrews from enslavement.
Chernin will produce with Dylan Clark, who recently moved over from Universal to become president of Chernin’s Fox-based film company.
The script will be written by Adam Cooper and Bill Collage, who make this their followup to a high-level deal they made to reinvent Herman Melville's Moby Dick, with a graphic novel feel, for director Timur Bekmambetov and producer Scott Stuber at Universal.
The Moses story will be told using the same green screen strategy as 300, so it will feel more like that pic or Braveheart than The Ten Commandments, the 1956 Cecil B. DeMille film. [ Read more... ] | 
