Will Smith: Once a Fresh Prince, Soon to be a Pharaoh

Posted by Neil Miller (neil@filmschoolrejects.com) on September 8, 2008

Will Smith to Play The Last Pharaoh

At least, that is what Braveheart screenwriter Randall Wallace has in mind. According to Variety, Wallace has signed on with Columbia pictures to write The Last Pharaoh. It tells the story of Taharqa, a pharaoh who battled Assryan invaders in ancient Egypt back in the mid-600s BC.

The script is being written as a vehicle for Will Smith, who is the one that brought the story to Wallace, and has been interested in playing the pharaoh for quite a while. As well, it is worth noting that Wallace is the third screenwriter to be brought onto the project at Smith’s Overbrook Entertainment. The original script was written by Devil in a Blue Dress scribe Carl Franklin, with Never Back Down writer Chris Hauty being brought in to do some polishing earlier this year.

As of right now, there is no target start date for the project, but we will keep an eye out for you.

Also, a very little known fact about Taharqa — he was a Nubian. What the f**k is a Nubian?


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  • Sam
    A Nubian is someone from Nubia.
    Better known as Sudan nowadays.

    and since wikipedia solves these questions all too easily

    "In ancient times Nubians were depicted by Egyptians as having very dark skin, often shown with hooped earrings and with braided or extended hair.[1] Ancient Nubians were famous for their vast wealth, their trade between central Africa and the lower Nile valley civilizations, including Egypt, their skill and precision with the bow, their 23 letter alphabet, the use of deadly poison on the heads of their arrows, their great military, their advanced civilization, and their century-long rule over the united upper and lower Egyptian kingdoms.[2]"
  • @Sam

    Thank you for the information.. But that was a joke. It was a reference to a line in Kevin Smith's Chasing Amy. I am very aware, thanks to Wikipedia, of what a real Nubian is... :)
  • Sam
    it is too god damn early in the week / morning for those kind of jokes.

    god damn it.
  • Trace
    LOL Sam cracks me up.
  • Aleric
    But Nubians at that time are not classified as black. True they were dark skinned but they had fair features and did not share the same charcteristics as the rest of the African nationals at that time.
  • HempKnight757
    wats a nubian?
  • HempKnight757
    The Fresh Prince of Sudan that should have been the title
  • ksand 1956
    Just because whites did not classify them as Black does not mean that they were not. The
    Black race consist of many different ethnic groups just as every other race does. This is why
    Europeans of all ethnic groups consider ancient Greece to be the root of their civilization
    even though they may not themselves be Greek.
  • Millman
    "not classified as black" If not the color of the skin, what exactly qualifies you for being
    black?
  • @ksand

    I like how you automatically blame the whites for discrimination, when it was probably the Egyptians (who are not Caucasian) that had the most interactions with them. Further research (or just scrolling down Wikipedia) shows modern day Nubians, who bear a much closer resemblance to other Arabic people as opposed to Africans.
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