ISTANBUL: Pakistan and Turkey are set to co-produce a television series on the life of Salahuddin al-Ayyubi, a revered Muslim general popularly known in the West as Saladin.
Having welcomed the project offer from a Pakistan-based production company, Ansari & Shah Films, producer Emre Konuk, owner of Turkey’s Akli Films, announced on Saturday they have reached an agreement.
“A happy news on a blessed Friday night! Contract signed between Akli Films and Ansari&Shah Films about ‘Sultan Selahaddin Ayyubi,'” Konuk tweeted.
Kutlu bir cuma akşamında mutlu bir haber! Akli Film ve Ansari Shah Film arasında “Sultan Selahaddin Eyyübi” dizi projesi için anlaşma imzalandı. Türkiye ve Pakistan işbirliği ile hazırlanacak uluslararası proje ülkemize ve sanat dünyamıza hayırlı olsun. #SelahaddinEyyübi pic.twitter.com/3MVOlDjVE4
— Emre KONUK (@emrekonukk) August 20, 2021
He wished that the international, joint project is beneficial “to our country and our art world.”
The series, featuring actors from Pakistan and Turkey, will be shot in Turkey and is planned to have three seasons.
Konuk said he was happy to realise the project, despite being aware of the difficulty in portraying “this great person who left his mark in history and all over the world.”
Saladin defeated the crusaders and recaptured Jerusalem in 1187.
