MEETINGS BETWEEN MEL GIBSON AND ROGER KUPELIAN CONTINUE WITH THE AIM TO SHOOT A FILM ON ARMENIA
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The author of Hollywood visual effects and filmmaker Roger Kupelian
met Mel Gibson and President Serzh Sargsyan’s representatives with
the aim of shooting the film “East of Byzantium” telling about Armenia.
According to Kupelian: “Armenian culture needs to embrace warrior-code
based identity over one that focuses on its victimization, and this
project that I have personally financed over the course of ten years
has been shaped by that ideal”.
Kupelian’s East of Byzantium chronicles the history of Armenians from
the adoption of Christianity as its state religion in 301 AD to the
Battle of Avarayr in 451 AD and the victories following it.
The meetings between Kupelian, Fugitive Studios Entertainment Armenia
founder and Gibson started in May, 2011 in Moscow. The two have been
meeting intermittently until as early as last month. Fugitive Studios
said that the most recent Kupelian-Gibson meeting “was promising yet
preliminary.” Negotiations with prospective producers of the project
are also being pursued, with the goal of reaching a solid conclusion
before the end of this year.