A desperate African King of 1890s must unite independent neighboring warlords, who are conspiring against him; to save their common country from upcoming European colonial invaders and to fulfill the revolutionary dreams of a patriotic Emperor whom he has betrayed to death

A logline ?is a pithy statement of the spine of the story, ?the spine stripped bare of all the meat and other skeletal bones. ?And the spine seems to be:

In the 1890's, an Ethiopian king struggles to unite feuding tribes to defend the independence of his ancient kingdom against an invading Italian army.
(24 words)

All the rest is backstory and complication (skeleton and meat). ?Based on what I know about the history of that troubled country, there is no lack of material to flesh out a fantastic story. ? This is a film I want to see. So I give this story idea an enthusiastic thumbs up. ?Best wishes with your script.

P.S. ?I would ID the country as "Ethiopia" because it is a more familiar term than Abyssinia.

fwiw

A logline ?is a pithy statement of the spine of the story, ?the spine stripped bare of all the meat and other skeletal bones. ?And the spine seems to be:

In the 1890's, an Ethiopian king struggles to unite feuding tribes to defend the independence of his ancient kingdom against an invading Italian army.
(24 words)

All the rest is backstory and complication (skeleton and meat). ?Based on what I know about the history of that troubled country, there is no lack of material to flesh out a fantastic story. ? This is a film I want to see. So I give this story idea an enthusiastic thumbs up. ?Best wishes with your script.

P.S. ?I would ID the country as "Ethiopia" because it is a more familiar term than Abyssinia.

fwiw

Is this about the struggle to unite tribal factions in Ethiopia to repel the Italian invasion of 1896? ?If not, what country and what historical character is the story about?