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Mel Gibson is working on a TV miniseries about the 1565 Great Siege of Malta

Posted on 12/1/25 at 5:34 pm
Posted by hawgfaninc
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Posted on 12/1/25 at 5:34 pm

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Mel Gibson is working on a new miniseries about one of the most epic battles in Christian history, the Great Siege of Malta (1565).

Fewer than 700 Knights of St. John held off an Ottoman force of nearly 40,000, fighting to stop the fall of Christian Europe and decide the future of the Mediterranean.

A story of courage, faith, and impossible odds, finally coming to the screen.

Shut up and take my money.gif
Posted by geauxtigers87
Louisiana
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Posted on 12/1/25 at 5:36 pm to
dude. frick yeah.
Posted by bad93ex
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Posted on 12/1/25 at 5:56 pm to
I am in, curious about what was done to stop the spread of Islam during those times.
Posted by Shiftyplus1
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Posted on 12/1/25 at 5:57 pm to
A crusades movie where the Christians are the good guys? frick yes. Inject that into my veins.
Posted by Gusoline
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Posted on 12/1/25 at 6:34 pm to
Oops.
This post was edited on 12/1/25 at 6:36 pm
Posted by hogcard1964
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Posted on 12/1/25 at 6:47 pm to
If Ken Burns did this, 600 of the knights would have been black. The other 100 would have been Native American Indians.
Posted by Pondyrosa
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Posted on 12/1/25 at 6:49 pm to
Don't worry Mel, I already picked out the title : "700"
Posted by UnluckyTiger
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Posted on 12/1/25 at 6:54 pm to
Posted by Saint Alfonzo
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Posted on 12/1/25 at 6:57 pm to
We need a modern day re-enactment.
Posted by Boodis Man
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Posted on 12/1/25 at 7:06 pm to
So in
Posted by blueboy
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Posted on 12/1/25 at 7:56 pm to
quote:

A crusades movie
About 300 years too late, so no.
quote:

Christians are the good guys?
They never weren't. The first crusade came after almost 500 years of muslim invasions of Europe.
Posted by Shiftyplus1
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Posted on 12/1/25 at 7:59 pm to
The1565 Great Siege of Malta is considered a final and pivotal event of the Crusades.

And if you went by what every movie says about the crusades, then the poor put upon Muslims were the enlightened good guys while Christian Europeans were mindless savages.
Posted by blueboy
Member since Apr 2006
62802 posts
Posted on 12/1/25 at 8:04 pm to
The last actual crusade ended 300 years earlier, but fine.
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the poor put upon Muslims were the enlightened good guys while Christian Europeans were mindless savages.
Their running narrative to this day, and curiously, our schools do not teach any contradiction to this. They study the Crusades, but never what led to them.
Posted by Napoleon
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Posted on 12/1/25 at 9:23 pm to
Both sides were neither good nor bad. It went back and forth with atrocities. You had good kings on both sides and blood thirsty tyrants on both sides. It went back and forth so many times.
What most remember is leaders like Saladdin and Baldwin allowed religous pilgrims from all three faiths in Jerusuleum. The 1099 siege when the Christians won they famously killed off many of the Muslims and jews. But the 1187 reconquest by the muslims they spared the Christians. So many people think in that term mostly. But there were many more back and forths.
Posted by imjustafatkid
Alabama
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Posted on 12/1/25 at 10:04 pm to
I'm in.
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