"Hannibal The Great" Movie In Negotiations With Top Actors

Online, March 28, 2012 (Newswire.com) - "Hannibal the Great" movie in negotiations with top actors

Proteus Films slated movie on Hannibal Barca is currently negotiating the lead role of Hannibal Barca to be played by either Djimon Honsou or Terence Howard. Both actor representatives have been approached with the script.

South African American film director Ken Sibanda is busy putting together the finer details of the project and sees the movie as a "black Lord of the Rings, an ensemble piece."

The movie will tell the rise and fall of the famed Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca. Ken Sibanda is the director of the shot film, "The Triangle." Sibanda's book: The Return to Gibraltar, has been reviewed in Spain, South Africa, United States and Gibraltar.

"The emphasis of Hannibal the Great or pitch," said Sibanda, "Of the movie is to tell an entertaining but true to the historic facts story. The elephant invasion from across the Alps, is a dramatic high point, but many things went into that. For one, Hannibal must be portrayed not as a war monger but as humane as possible; the pursuit of war does not mean a person is revengeful by nature."

Ken Sibanda, a lawyer by training, who holds law degrees from the University of London and Temple School of Law said:

"It is a complex story and needs an actor who the audience can believe is Hannibal..."

The University of London is also the alma mater of H.G Wells; Arthur C. Clarke and Christopher Nolan, the director of Bat Man.

The Return to Gibraltar tells the story of a young African American who time travels to Spain 1491 to help the fledgling Moorish nation. The transgression of the laws of physics and time generate a repel effect in human behavior and attitude; in turn Mr. Bates, '.... must return to Gibraltar.' The book has been reviewed in Gibraltar, Spain, United States and South AFrica.