Production of the film Knights of Malta had been scheduled to start in Malta close to three years ago after director Guy Ritchie finished the filming of Swept Away starring his wife, Madonna.

It was then pushed back over a year to the summer of 2003.

According to weblog Wired Temples, Greg Dean Schmitz stated that this project is still currently on hold.

According to this report reprinted by IGN FilmForce, Ritchie’s top choices to star may be Sir Anthony Hopkins, as Jean Parisot de la Vallette, Grand Master of Malta, and Robert De Niro as Turkish leader Dragut Rais.