Christopher Lee to play Sheikh Ahmed Yassin in new "Kosher Western"
filmo | 31.03.2004 06:12 | Culture
Yassin was subordinate to Khaled Meshal. But, in fact, he was far more powerful.
Saruman (Christopher Lee) and Wormtongue make plans to capture the ring
British actor Christopher Lee, who played the evil death doer Saruman the White in the international trilogy blockbuster “The Lord of The Rings” has been hand-picked to star as the recently martyred terrorist Sheikh Ahmed Yassin in a new film about “an unending Armageddon between the forces of Good and Evil.”
Conspiracy theories are already widespread amongst film industry insiders that Kiwi LOTR director Peter Jackson was forced to cast Lee as Saruman eight years ago “by “Jewish” influences within Hollywood” in long held anticipation of last week’s assassination.
The gossip flying around LA is that current Israeli leader Ariel Sharon pressured Jewish film bosses to cast Lee, in order to create “an image of pure, white clothed Evil” in the minds of western “Ring” watching audiences.
Sharon - hated by the late, dead Sheikh for his role in the massacres at Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in the early 1980’s – hoped that cinema goers, especially in the US, would subconsciously associate the “Evil traitor of Mordor” with the bombed-in-his-wheelchair Sheikh. He thought it might lessen the public relations disaster which ensued, with most leaders from around the world outright condemning the illegal act.
Jackson has refuted the claim that he was pressured into casting Lee in the guise of Yassin as “Complete garbage!” adding, “How could Saruman have ascended the stairs of Isengard and created an army of vicious Uruk-Hai in a wheelchair? That’s just ridiculous!”
Former stage thespian Lee was unavailable for comment, but speaking on condition of anonymity, the film’s director Steven Spielberg said, “This project is still in it’s early stages. I’m delighted we’ve got Christopher Lee to play Sheikh Yassin, but apart from that, I’m not really sure about anything else. Oh yeah, John Williams is definitely doing the music. Look, why don’t you call back in a few years when I’ve written the script?”
A source close to the project commented that, “This is going to be another “never again” film from Steven. He felt that Schindler’s List, Amistad and Saving Private Ryan really opened people’s eyes to some of the terrors people can bring on each other, and that it helped to teach young people that they should happen “never again”. This time he wants to tell the world about the ongoing plight and suffering of the Palestinian people, and let it be known, “never again”.
Sheikh Ahmed Yassin as Sheikh Ahmed Yassin
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/409304.html
Christopher Lee as Saruman the White
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/movies/bal-artslife-lor-twotowersgallery,0,6745008.photogallery?coll=bal-artslife-movies&index=8
Conspiracy theories are already widespread amongst film industry insiders that Kiwi LOTR director Peter Jackson was forced to cast Lee as Saruman eight years ago “by “Jewish” influences within Hollywood” in long held anticipation of last week’s assassination.
The gossip flying around LA is that current Israeli leader Ariel Sharon pressured Jewish film bosses to cast Lee, in order to create “an image of pure, white clothed Evil” in the minds of western “Ring” watching audiences.
Sharon - hated by the late, dead Sheikh for his role in the massacres at Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in the early 1980’s – hoped that cinema goers, especially in the US, would subconsciously associate the “Evil traitor of Mordor” with the bombed-in-his-wheelchair Sheikh. He thought it might lessen the public relations disaster which ensued, with most leaders from around the world outright condemning the illegal act.
Jackson has refuted the claim that he was pressured into casting Lee in the guise of Yassin as “Complete garbage!” adding, “How could Saruman have ascended the stairs of Isengard and created an army of vicious Uruk-Hai in a wheelchair? That’s just ridiculous!”
Former stage thespian Lee was unavailable for comment, but speaking on condition of anonymity, the film’s director Steven Spielberg said, “This project is still in it’s early stages. I’m delighted we’ve got Christopher Lee to play Sheikh Yassin, but apart from that, I’m not really sure about anything else. Oh yeah, John Williams is definitely doing the music. Look, why don’t you call back in a few years when I’ve written the script?”
A source close to the project commented that, “This is going to be another “never again” film from Steven. He felt that Schindler’s List, Amistad and Saving Private Ryan really opened people’s eyes to some of the terrors people can bring on each other, and that it helped to teach young people that they should happen “never again”. This time he wants to tell the world about the ongoing plight and suffering of the Palestinian people, and let it be known, “never again”.
Sheikh Ahmed Yassin as Sheikh Ahmed Yassin
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/409304.html Christopher Lee as Saruman the White
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/movies/bal-artslife-lor-twotowersgallery,0,6745008.photogallery?coll=bal-artslife-movies&index=8
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