Bovaira takes wraps off 'Agora'

March 14, 2008 Fernando Bovaira's new Madrid-based production house Mod Producciones unveiled the name of its first production Thursday, announcing Alejandro Amenabar's upcoming Ancient Egypt epic will be titled "Agora." Starring Rachel Weisz and Max Minghella, Amenabar's English-language follow-up to "The Others" is from a screenplay by Amenabar and his regular writing partner Mateo Gil. Set in Roman Egypt in the fourth century, "Agora" tells the story of the legendary astronomer Hypatia (Weisz), trapped in the legendary Library of Alexandria, and her fight to save the old world's wisdom from the religious riots sweeping the streets of Alexandria.

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