Ed Zwick is set to direct the Warner Bros. period epic
The Lions of Al-Rassan, says Variety.
The feature is an adaptation of a Guy Gavriel Kay novel about the collision of religions in Spain during the Middle Ages that melds fact and fantasy.
The story is 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. There are allusions to the Crusades-era religious clashes between Jewish, Catholic and Muslim factions.
But the author veils the faiths and introduces magical elements into the historical framework.