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EXCLUSIVE: I, Robot, The Crow, Dark City head Alex Proyas is group to nonstop The Hakim, inspired by precocious Bahrain leader Shaikh Isa bin Ali Al Khalifa who led his state done an immense play of alteration complete nan people of 63 years from 1869 to 1932.
Billed arsenic an humanities epic, nan movie is being developed, produced and financed by PG Entertainment UK, which plans to sprout nan accumulation successful aggregate locations including Bahrain and London.
The screenplay is written by Peter C. Nelson and Fahar Faizaan, who besides service arsenic producers connected nan project. Casting is underway, led by Dan Hubbard.
The storyline will Shaikh Ali from his clip arsenic a young ruler who inherits Bahrain’s throne astatine 19-years-old pursuing nan decease of his begetter and must clasp his family and federation together amid piracy, nan illness of nan pearling economy, earthy disaster, and nan find of lipid that will reshape nan early of nan region.
“What drew maine to The Hakim was nan opportunity to show an epic communicative rooted successful a portion of nan world whose history has seldom been explored astatine this scale,” said Proyas.
“It is simply a communicative of power, family, faith, endurance and transformation, but besides of a leader striving to clasp group together arsenic nan world astir him changes. Bahrain offers an bonzer cinematic canvas, and we are approaching this arsenic a sweeping, immersive world of desert, sea, storms, palaces, pearl divers and governmental intrigue.”
Faizaan said: The Hakim is an eager and inspiring communicative that has ne'er been told astatine this scale. It is nan communicative of a leader navigating nan astir profound translator successful his nation’s history. Our ambition is to create a defining activity of cinema. One that is profoundly rooted successful Bahrain’s history but speaks universally to nan choices that style nations and nan work of activity successful times of change.”
Nelson added: “This unsocial accumulation brings together starring studios and method experts from crossed nan world to thief bring a thrilling section of Bahraini history to life successful a communicative that is universally appealing and will resonate pinch group each crossed nan world.”
