Jon Avnet is responsible for some of my favorite comedies in recent memory. 88 Minutes and Righteous Kill both had me in constant hysterics. So much so that I decided a while back that I’d happily watch anything else he chooses to do.
According to BD: “Erica Miner adapts Pharaoh, Manfredi’s novel that follows a modern Egyptologist who stumbles across a terrifying discovery: what actually happened in Babylon circa 586 B.C. when the prophet Jeremiah hid the sacred Ark of the Covenant as the Babylonians invaded.”
Keep it here for more as it comes.