Cairo, Egypt (The Adobo Chronicles) – It is being touted as the ‘Debate of the Century,’ and it has nothing to do with a political contest. Rather, it is a debate over an upcoming film, ‘Exodus: Gods and Kings.’

The protagonists: U.S. media mogul Rupert Murdoch, founder, chairman and CEO of News Corporation  and Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s former longtime ruler who was recently cleared of charges linking him to deaths of hundreds of protesters during a revolt that toppled him in 2011.

The film, which is being distributed by Murdoch’s 20th Century Fox, features Christian Bale as Moses, Aaron Paul as Joshua and Sigourney Weaver as Tuya. The Ridley Scott directed film has taken a hit for its lack of diversity, particularly because the movie is portraying historic people of color.

Murdoch took to Twitter to defend his film, saying, “Since when are Egyptians not white? All I know are.”

Upon reading the tweet, Mubarak responded: “Hello? I am Egyptian and I am not exactly white!”

CNN, which is struggling to maintain its ratings especially after a series of debacles courtesy of  its news anchor Don Lemon, seized the opportunity to schedule a television debate between Mubarak and Murdoch, over the color of Egyptians. Both have agreed and the debate will be scheduled sometime in December, moderated, of course, by Lemom.