1970s, MGM sold its rights to The Forty Days of Musa Dagh and after several abortive attempts, the novel was finally turned into a movie in 1982, directed by Sarky Mouradian with screenplay by Alex Hakobian. It was a low-budget, low-profile production that seriously abridged the original. Subsequent attempts and adaptations In 2006, Sylvester Stallone expressed his desire to direct a film about Musa Dagh, according to Professor Savaş Eğilmez of Atatürk University. An e-mail campaign sponsored by the Armenian-genocide denying Foundation for the Struggle Against Baseless Allegations of Genocide (ASİMED), pressured Stallone into not proceeding with the film. In early 2009, reports surfaced that Mel Gibson was also considering directing a documentary and appearing in the adaptation of Werfel's novel but was dissuaded after receiving 3,000 e-mails from a Turkish pressure group. In 2016, a feature film, The Promise, starring Christian Bale, appeared, which bears some resemblance to Werfel′s novel and draws from the same source material. See also Vakıflı Armenian genocide Anti-Armenianism Denial of the Armenian Genocide Zeitun rebellion (1895-96) Zeitun Resistance (1915) Notes Further reading Enright, D. J. "The Ghosts of Apes: Franz Werfel’s The Forty Days of Musa Dagh." in: Enright, D. J. (editor). The Apothecary’s Shop: Essays on Literature. Secker and Warburg (London), 1957. Pages 145–167. Minasian, Edward. "The Forty Years of Musa Dagh: The Film That Was Denied." Journal of Armenian Studies, National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR). Also in: Volume III, Numbers 1 & 2: 1986-1987 Identity and Assimilation: The Armenian Experience in America. Profile. Cicek, Kemal: The Armenians of Musa Dagh 1915-1939, A Story of Insurgency and Flight, Turquoise Series, Haarlem/Netherlands 2020, Minasian, Edward. Musa Dagh (Nashville, TN: Cold Tree Press, 2007). Kohns, Oliver. "The Aesthetics of Human Rights in Franz Werfel's The Forty Days of Musa Dagh." In: Kaul, Susanne and David Kim (editors). Imagining Human Rights. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 25 September 2015. , 9783110387292. Steiman, Lionel Bradley. Franz Werfel, the Faith of an Exile: From Prague to Beverly Hills (Waterloo, Ont.: W. Laurier University Press, 1985). Wagener, Hans. Understanding Franz Werfel (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1993). Erickson,Edward J.: “Bayonets on Musa Dagh: Ottoman Counterinsurgency Operations 1915,” The Journal of Strategic Studies, vol. 28, no.3, June 2005, pages 529-548. External links The Forty Days of Musa Dagh available at Open Library (1934 English translation by Geoffrey Dunlop) - Also at Apple Podcasts