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RE: A fantasy film with Canaanite gods
July 3, 2026 at 5:39 pm
So, have you envisioned this movie to be like a Criterion Collection type of movie or more like a mainstream blockbuster type of a movie?
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RE: A fantasy film with Canaanite gods
July 3, 2026 at 7:07 pm
(July 2, 2026 at 5:07 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: (July 2, 2026 at 12:25 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Offending Christians and Jews has never stopped a film being made before.
Yeah, I think "The Life of Brian" offended a few, lol! To be fair though, Monty Python didn't have an easy time getting that movie made for that very reason.
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RE: A fantasy film with Canaanite gods
July 9, 2026 at 12:51 pm
(July 2, 2026 at 11:56 am)Bahana Wrote: I was thinking about how a cool fantasy film could be made out of the gods of the Canaanite pantheon. We have El, Baal, Yahweh, and his Asherah. It would probably never be made because it would be offensive to Christians and Jews. There are plenty of fantastic elements in the OT, with fireballs coming from heaven and Elijah flying up in his chariot.
Something like Gods of Egypt?
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RE: A fantasy film with Canaanite gods
July 9, 2026 at 1:38 pm
I wouldn’t mind seeing a film about the Norse pantheon done closer to the source material than that MCU muck.
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RE: A fantasy film with Canaanite gods
July 11, 2026 at 12:42 pm
I looked on Amazon to see if they had any figurines of Canaanite gods and couldn't find anything. They had plenty of Egyptian ones, though.
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RE: A fantasy film with Canaanite gods
July 11, 2026 at 12:54 pm
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(July 11, 2026 at 12:42 pm)Bahana Wrote: I looked on Amazon to see if they had any figurines of Canaanite gods and couldn't find anything. They had plenty of Egyptian ones, though.
Go for the Egyptian ones. Eventually, you’ll have a complete Set.
Etsy seems to have a few.
https://www.etsy.com/market/canaanite_statue
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