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Hindustan Times, India
January 19, 2007 Friday 12:47 PM EST
Stallone may bring 1915's Armenian genocide on silver screen
Washington, Jan 19 -- Hollywood's tough guy Sylvester Stallone is set
to helm a film based on the controversial book 'The Forty Days of
Musa Dagh', which describes the alleged Turkish massacre of the
Armenian community in 1915.
Authored by Franz Werfel, the publication of this book had raised a
huge controversy in Turkey, which never accepted it wholly to be a
historical fact.
Stallone's plans to make a film adaptation of the book has also
raised a controversy, and the 'Association On Struggle Against
Armenian Genocide Acknowledgement' is urging him not to go ahead with
his decision.
"The book is full of lies, since the author got his information from
nationalist and radical Armenians. We have already sent necessary
documents about the mentioned days to the producer of the film. Our
allies will urge the producer not to produce the film," Contactmusic
quoted Chairman Savas Egilmez fumes as saying.
Stallone says that the flick will be "an epic about the complete
destruction of a civilisation. (But) talk about a political hot
potato. The Turks have been killing that subject for 85 years."
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
January 19, 2007 Friday 12:47 PM EST
Stallone may bring 1915's Armenian genocide on silver screen
Washington, Jan 19 -- Hollywood's tough guy Sylvester Stallone is set
to helm a film based on the controversial book 'The Forty Days of
Musa Dagh', which describes the alleged Turkish massacre of the
Armenian community in 1915.
Authored by Franz Werfel, the publication of this book had raised a
huge controversy in Turkey, which never accepted it wholly to be a
historical fact.
Stallone's plans to make a film adaptation of the book has also
raised a controversy, and the 'Association On Struggle Against
Armenian Genocide Acknowledgement' is urging him not to go ahead with
his decision.
"The book is full of lies, since the author got his information from
nationalist and radical Armenians. We have already sent necessary
documents about the mentioned days to the producer of the film. Our
allies will urge the producer not to produce the film," Contactmusic
quoted Chairman Savas Egilmez fumes as saying.
Stallone says that the flick will be "an epic about the complete
destruction of a civilisation. (But) talk about a political hot
potato. The Turks have been killing that subject for 85 years."
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress