Steven Spielberg near agreement to direct 'Ten Commandments' remake

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Steven Spielberg has inched closer in agreeing to helm a remake of “The Ten Commandments” for Warner Bros.

The studio, which has wanted the former CSULB student to direct the remake since last September after he looked over the script, plans to guide the project in a new direction.

For those who expect a Charlton Heston-esque Moses in the remake, think again. The humble portrayal of the man in the 1956 epic will be replaced by a warrior in the remake.

The film, with the working title “Gods and Kings,” will be "like a ‘Braveheart’-ish version of the Moses story,” an insider confirmed to Deadline.

The remake will tell Moses’s life story from beginning to end including his “coming down the river, being adopted, leaving his home, forming an army and getting the Ten Commandments,” the insider said.

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