Quote Originally Posted by Noncommunist View Post
But you don't think the producers would be able to take advantage of the fatwa to get more publicity? After all, I don't believe I would have heard of Salman Rushdie had he not published the "Satanic Verses".

I suppose the alternative would be to make both sides sympathetic though I'm not sure whether that would induce apathy in the audience without any sort of clear cut good or bad guy.
The producers, the film company, the actors, and everyone involved would need guards for the rest of their lives, short or long.

Even if you tried to make it sympathetic to both sides some cleric is going to get upset.

It is a no win proposition.

Besides, if you want history you want both sides portrayed as they were, and likely both sides were bad-guys.

You may as well remake a Sinbad the Sailor movie if you are just making pretty stories.