Washington, Jan. 19 (ANI): 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.
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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. | Sly Stallone vs Turkey. Hardly a fair fight |
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." | Apparently Stallone has been trying to get this project off the ground for several years. |
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