# Could a Sinbad the Sailor movie be made in today's anti-Muslim climate? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 2, 2017, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-sinbad-the-sailor-movie-be-made-in-todays-anti-muslim-climate/778829 "2017-02-02T17:02:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-sinbad-the-sailor-movie-be-made-in-todays-anti-muslim-climate/778829/1 "2017-02-02T17:02:38Z")
If not it would be a pity because the “Arabian Nights” genre is/was a very imaginative and entertaining one. In particular I’m thinking of one nearly forgotten example: _Captain Sinbad_ 1963, starring Guy Williams of Lost In Space fame. Now the production values were comical, yet if it were remade with modern CGI graphics I think it would be great. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-sinbad-the-sailor-movie-be-made-in-todays-anti-muslim-climate/778829/2 "2017-02-02T17:10:10Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > If not it would be a pity because the “Arabian Nights” genre is/was a very imaginative and entertaining one. In particular I’m thinking of one nearly forgotten example: _Captain Sinbad_ 1963, starring Guy Williams of Lost In Space fame. Now the production values were comical, yet if it were remade with modern CGI graphics I think it would be great. Ray Harryhausen (who had made arguably the best Sinbad movie in 1959 – _The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad_) made two more in the 1970s – _The Golden Voyage_ in 1974 and _…and the Eye of the Tiger_ in 1977. There have beenb many more Sinbad movies since, including _Sinbad of the SEven Seas_[ with Lou “The Hulk” Ferrigno in 1989 and the animated (some of it CGI) _Sinbad of the Seven Seas_ in 2003 > **[Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinbad:_Legend_of_the_Seven_Seas)** > > Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (also known as simply Sinbad) is a 2003 American animated adventure film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by DreamWorks Pictures. Featuring the character Sinbad the Sailor, it was directed by Tim Johnson and Patrick Gilmore (in his feature directorial debut) and written by John Logan, and stars the voices of Brad Pitt, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Joseph Fiennes. It tells the story of Sinbad (voiced by Pitt), a pirate who travels... So I don’t see why you couldn’t make another today. Some of the early Sinbad movies sort of ignored the Muslim features – there’s not much of it in Seventh Voyage. But others embraced it John Philip Law in Golden Voyage frequently invokes Allah and acts more Muslim than Kerwin Matthews ever did. (It’s been too long since I saw Seven Seas, to recall exactly how it was handled). ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-sinbad-the-sailor-movie-be-made-in-todays-anti-muslim-climate/778829/3 "2017-02-02T17:10:12Z")
Looks like the most recent Sinbad movie was [three years ago](https://www.amazon.com/Sinbad-Voyage-Shahin-Sean-Solimon/dp/B00PLYTP2E). ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-sinbad-the-sailor-movie-be-made-in-todays-anti-muslim-climate/778829/4 "2017-02-02T17:48:27Z")
Lumpy, do you believe that American movie goers would boycott a Sinbad the Sailor/Arabian Nights film? ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-sinbad-the-sailor-movie-be-made-in-todays-anti-muslim-climate/778829/5 "2017-02-02T18:05:51Z")
> [@mlees](#): > > Lumpy, do you believe that American movie goers would boycott a Sinbad the Sailor/Arabian Nights film? Not boycott, but it might have a disappointing box office. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-sinbad-the-sailor-movie-be-made-in-todays-anti-muslim-climate/778829/6 "2017-02-02T18:11:54Z")
If they could bring back a 25-year-old **Caroline Munro** to star (she was in Golden Voyage, yes sir, was she ever) I would see the SHIT out of a new Sinbad movie, even if the profits went straight to ISIS. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-sinbad-the-sailor-movie-be-made-in-todays-anti-muslim-climate/778829/7 "2017-02-02T18:28:37Z")
The animated Sinbad movie from the early 2000s turned him into a Greek. I wouldn’t recommend the film. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-sinbad-the-sailor-movie-be-made-in-todays-anti-muslim-climate/778829/8 "2017-02-02T18:32:14Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Not boycott, but it might have a disappointing box office. So did _The Adventures of Sinbad_ (1996-98), but I think that was less “anti-muslim prejudice” and more “anti-lack of lesbian warrior princesses.” Honestly, these days I almost suspect a new Sinbad movie would get more crap for the hero (or supporting heroines) not being “_good enough_” Muslims, or for the production being “culturally appropriating” and “Orientalist,” more than the Peoria moviegoing crowd would revolt over a swashbuckler fighting a cyclops-centaur. ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-sinbad-the-sailor-movie-be-made-in-todays-anti-muslim-climate/778829/9 "2017-02-02T19:20:56Z")
Wasn’t there a Sinbad TV show on Netflix or something recently? [Found it.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinbad_(TV_series)) Only 12 episodes, 5 years ago. Dang, I enjoyed that one. ---
**Author:** ![Fuzzy\_wuzzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a8b319/32.png) [@Fuzzy\_wuzzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuzzy_wuzzy)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-sinbad-the-sailor-movie-be-made-in-todays-anti-muslim-climate/778829/10 "2017-02-02T19:27:43Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Not boycott, but it might have a disappointing box office. Or the distributors/film-makers could receive such a shit-storm of bad publicity that the venture may be viewed as a non-starter by many who would otherwise be attracted to such a project. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-sinbad-the-sailor-movie-be-made-in-todays-anti-muslim-climate/778829/11 "2017-02-02T19:55:56Z")
Of course, Sinbad the actor was in the movie _Shazam_, and look what happened to that. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-sinbad-the-sailor-movie-be-made-in-todays-anti-muslim-climate/778829/12 "2017-02-02T20:40:52Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Of course, Sinbad the actor was in the movie _Shazam_, and look what happened to that. When TNT ran the Harryhausen Sinbad movies in one night, they had Sinbad the comedian/actor as the host. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-sinbad-the-sailor-movie-be-made-in-todays-anti-muslim-climate/778829/13 "2017-02-02T21:05:33Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > If they could bring back a 25-year-old **Caroline Munro** to star (she was in Golden Voyage, yes sir, was she ever) I would see the SHIT out of a new Sinbad movie, even if the profits went straight to ISIS. Oh, hubba hubba, yes! I had such a case of the warmies for her, back in the day! I’m pretty sure American film-goers are able to create a cognitive wall between the medieval fantasy Arabia and the modern real Arabia. (Just the way we can enjoy gangster movies…without having any sympathy for real gangsters.) If one wanted to be (overly) cautious, they could create an analogue of the Arabian world. I’m thinking, for example, of Hanna Barbera’s “Pirates of Dark Water.” The show had an Arabian Nights tone, but was set in a separate fantasy world. ETA: I didn’t mean to equate Arabs with Gangsters; the analogy was meant to be in regard to literary styles, not a real-world political comparison! ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-sinbad-the-sailor-movie-be-made-in-todays-anti-muslim-climate/778829/14 "2017-02-02T23:31:13Z")
Let’s not forget _Golden Voyage_ had a pre-fourth Doctor Tom Baker as the evil Prince Koura. Talk about babes. Plus, I don’t think Koura was all that evil. Sure he tried to kill Sinbad a couple of times, but almost everybody Sinbad runs into on his adventures does that. And Koura was way nicer to his servants and crew than Sinbad was to his. Beware of people who are mean to the waiters, you might say.