by Sanem Z / Hot Movie News Crew
 Sylvester Stallone began to think politic after all these years. Sly talked to Turkish newspaper Sabah and revealed that he will shoot 40 Days in the Moses Mountain based on the book by Franz Werfel.
“The film is a political hot potato. Turks have been trying to kill the issue for 85 years”, says Sly and adds “is an epic about the entire termination of a society”.
“The book unfolds the tragedy that befell the Armenian people in the dark year of 1915. The Great War is raging through Europe, and in the ancient, mountainous lands southwest of the Caspian Sea the Turks have begun systematically to exterminate their Christian subjects. Unable to deny his birthright or his people, one man, Gabriel Bagradian, born an Armenian, educated in Paris, married to a Frenchwoman, and an officer doing his duty as a Turkish subject in the Ottoman army, will strive to resist death at the hands of his blood enemy by leading 5,000 Armenian villagers to the top of Musa Dagh, "the mountain of Moses." There, for forty days, in the face of almost certain death, they will suffer the siege of a Turkish army hell-bent on genocide. A passionate warning against the dangers of racism and scapegoating, and prefiguring the ethnic horrors of World War II, this important novel from the early 1930s remains the only significant treatment, in fiction or nonfiction, of the first genocide in the twentieth century’s long series of inhumanities”, says Amazon.com.
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