There’s a TV series in the works in which Christians are the heroes, but it is not coming out of the major Hollywood studios where Christians are the foils for the noble people who are anything but Christians.
“I’m also working on a TV limited series about the Siege of Malta, which is an incredible story, and there’s only one place to film that, I mean, in Malta,” Gibson said, according to Movieweb.
“Because that’s where it happened, at these fortresses where 700 knights defended Malta against an onslaught from the Turkish and Suleiman sent 40,000 men and ships and, wow, the knights won. So, it’s a pretty crazy, great story,” he said.
The Great Siege of Malta of 1565! Centuries prior to that, the crusader order of Hospitaller warrior monks made a promise to defend Christendom against the most dangerous foes. At Malta, they kept their promise in face of full onslaught of the powerful Ottoman empire. (Thread!) pic.twitter.com/NHhPpXzn69
— Aristocratic Fury (@LandsknechtPike) March 29, 2022
According to Encyclopedia Britannica, the Siege of Malta took place from May to September in 1565 when the powerful Ottoman Empire sought to take the Mediterranean island as part of its conquests.
At the time, Christians were reeling from years of defeats at the hands of the expanding Ottoman Empire.
“Controlled by the Knights Hospitaller since their expulsion from Rhodes, Malta was the key to Christian defenses against Ottoman expansion in the Mediterranean,” Britannica says, reporting that overall, 3,000 of 6,000 Christians died against 20,000 of 40,000 invaders.
“For the Ottomans, this was their worst reversal in more than a century, and it gave Christian Europe hope that Turkish expansion could be halted,” it wrote.
There was a time when Catholic warriors defended the Faith in the face of Islamic expansion. A well-made movie about Lepanto or the Siege of Malta would be great. No doubt, progressive Catholics, always embarrassed by the Church’s noble past, would be unnerved by such movies. pic.twitter.com/VHNoAjK6Uu
— A Milwaukee Catholic (@CCityCatholic) September 30, 2024