(hi,
silentq!)
Apparently
the book is being made into a movie:
Warner Brothers has attached Ed Zwick to direct the fantasy historical epic film
The Lions of Al-Rassan, an adaptation of Guy Gavriel Kay's novel about the collision of religions in Spain during the Middle Ages that melds fact and fantasy,
Variety reported.
Vera Blasi (
Woman on Top) will write the script based on the book, a historical fantasy set at the beginning of the Christian re-conquest of Moorish Spain. A triangle forms between two warrior princes and a female doctor in the fictional locale of Al-Rassan. The author veils the faiths and introduces magical elements into the historical framework, the trade paper reported.
I do hope the screenwriter and production crew are aware of the fact that it isn't actually about Spain. I do hope this is good.
Zwick's IMDB resume doesn't fill me with hope--it doesn't look like he's actually directed before--but at least he has historical epic experience. Maybe a combination of Traffic and Shakespeare in Love would be just the right approach...