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‘Gladiator’ Creator Wants Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert Downey Jr. to Star in a Film About Rumi
2016-06-08 08:12:24 Post No. 70596506
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‘Gladiator’ Creator Wants Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert Downey Jr. to Star in a Film About Rumi
Anonymous
2016-06-08 08:12:24
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>Franzoni, best known for Amistad (1997) and Gladiator (2000), told the Guardian he went to Turkey last week to interview Rumi scholars in Istanbul and to visit his protagonist’s mausoleum in Konya.
>“He’s like a Shakespeare,” Franzoni said of Rumi. “He’s a character who has enormous talent and worth to his society and his people, and obviously resonates today. Those people are always worth exploring.”
>Franzoni and producer Stephen Joel Brown said they saw DiCaprio as Rumi and Robert Downey Jr. as the poet’s spiritual mentor, Shams of Tabriz. “This is the level of casting that we’re talking about,” Brown told the Guardian. Official casting for the film has not yet begun.
>According to the Guardian, Franzoni and Brown want to “challenge the stereotypical portrayal of Muslim characters in Western cinema by charting the life of the great Sufi scholar.” Their apparent notion of how to do this — casting white guys as brown, Muslim historical figures — has already met criticism.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/06/07/gladiator-creator-wants-leonardo-dicaprio-and-and-robert-downey-jr-to-star-in-a-film-about-rumi/
He could pull it off.
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