The Last King of Scotland The Last King of Scotland The Last King of Scotland is a 1998 novel by journalist Giles Foden. Focusing on the rise of Ugandan President Idi Amin and his reign as dictator from 1971 to 1979, the novel is written as the memoir of a fictional Scottish doctor in Amin's employ. Giles Foden's novel received critical acclaim and numerous awards when it was published by Faber and Faber in 1998. It interweaves fiction and historical fact. In 2006, a film by the same name was produced based on the novel. The protagonist is a fictional character named Nicholas Garrigan, a
Basilisk: The Serpent King Basilisk: The Serpent King Basilisk:The Serpent King is a 2006 film starring Jeremy London, Wendy Carter, Cleavant Derricks, Griff Furst, Sarah Skeeters, Stephen Furst, Yancy Butler, Doug Dearth and Bashar Rahal. The movie is about an ancient Basilisk which terrorizes the town of Pueblo Springs, Colorado after it is awakened from its 2,000 year long sleep. In 112 A.D., in what is now Libya, the Basilisk, an ancient monstrous snake reputed to be the king of serpents, attacks a Bedouin leader (Bashar Rahal) and his sons who make their way to the mountains where it lives. When it kills the