Moustapha Akkad
Moustapha Akkad was born in Aleppo, Aleppo Governorate, Syria on July 1st, 1930 and is the Film Producer. At the age of 75, Moustapha Akkad biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Early life
Al Akkad was born in Aleppo, France's Mandate for Syria and Lebanon, on July 1, 1930. He obtained his high school diploma from Aleppo American College. He was given $200 and a copy of the Quran by his father, who was then a customs officer, before he left for the United States to study film direction and production at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Akkad completed a Masters' degree at the University of Southern California (USC), where he first met director Sam Peckinpah. Peckinpah became Akkad's mentor and recruited him as an advisor for a film about the Algerian War that never made it to the big screen, but he continued to encourage him until he found a job as a producer at CBS.
Career
In 1976, he produced and directed Mohammad Messenger of God (first published as The Message in the United States) starring Anthony Quinn and Irene Papas. Akkad was put off by Hollywood, who prompted him to film in Morocco.
He sought to be respectful of Islam and its views on portraying Muhammad while making Muhammad, Messenger of God. He obtained the approval from Al-Azhar University in Egypt but the Muslim World League in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, rejected him. Kuwait, Libya, and Morocco's governments promised to support the film financially if it was rejected by the Muslim World League, but Kuwait retained its financial assistance but stopped other forms of assistance. King Hassan II of Morocco poured his entire support for the film's development. Akkad filmed for six months in Morocco but had to stop when the Saudi Government pressured Morocco's government put the government of Morocco under intense strain to halt production. In order to complete the job, Akkad went to Muammar Gaddafi of Libya, and Gaddafi allowed him to film in Libya for the remaining 6 months until the film was finalized.
In a 1976 interview, Akkad saw the film as a way to bridge the Western and Muslim worlds.
When he produced Halloween in 1978, he made low-budget film history. Akkad was best known for his contributions to the first eight Halloween films as an executive producer (the first film to have a cast member in any of these films). The series was extremely profitable and hugely influential to subsequent horror films.
In 1980, he directed Lion of the Desert, in which Quinn and Irene Papas were joined by Oliver Reed, Rod Steiger, and John Gield. It was about Omar Mukhtar (Quinn), a real Bedouin chief who fought Benito Mussolini's Italian troops in the deserts of Libya, who was concerned about the real-life Bedouin chief. Since initially being little supported by Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, who invested $35 million in the film, the film is now critically acclaimed. This negative publicity may have contributed to the company's poor results at the box office. "A grand epic journey that will stand as a high point in Moustapha Akkad's film career," Clint Morris describes the film as "a grand epic adventure." Trancas International Films, his production company, had reached an agreement with Galaxy International in order to begin filming in order to get films in order to break them under a worldwide seven-picture deal.
Akkad had attempted to purchase Pinewood Studios from The Rank Organisation before, but also had a studio in Twickenham. At the time of his death, Sean Connery was in the process of directing an $80 million film about Saladin and the Crusades, for which he already had the script.