Re: Hollywood To Produce Big Budget Films Based On Bible Stories
Gotta give them credit for jumping on that built-in audience.
I'd be there opening day for a movie based on Revelations (though I'd also bet 50-1 that it would blow in every way imaginable, and then in some new ways as well).
Re: Hollywood To Produce Big Budget Films Based On Bible Stories
There was a big story about this after the success of THE PASSION, but the hoopla lost steam somewhere along the line. Good to see it gain momentum.
I'd love to see a film on the life of King David. If done right it could be awesome.
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Re: Hollywood To Produce Big Budget Films Based On Bible Stories
I'm waiting to see Oliver Stone tackle the Lot escapes Sodom story. That'd be some messed-up shit...especially if he stays true to the source material.
I'd be there opening day for a movie based on Revelations (though I'd also bet 50-1 that it would blow in every way imaginable, and then in some new ways as well).
Actually, there are a number of King David specs floating around.
I wonder if, when filming these bible-inspired stories, the creators will adhere to the source material or take the kind of revisionist approach that's all the rage in the fairy-tale films that have come out lately and that are in the pipeline, where the values of the original fairy-tales are often inverted.
On another forum, someone mentioned that a take on King David that makes Goliath the protagonist (not just the central figure, but the hero) would definitely be fresh and novel. Probably never get made, though.
DeMille's style of filmmaking is completely out of fashion, I know, but I find that the unironically epic quality of his biblical films makes them compelling and thrilling and powerful. He conveyed the aesthetic of the sublime in a way that few filmmakers ever have, and those Old Testament stories beg for a sublime rendering. If there had been cinema in the 19th century, the time of arch-Romantic painters such as John Martin and Thomas Cole, their movies would have looked and sounded like DeMille's.
Interesting that the directors who followed in DeMille's footsteps took a more subdued, modern, thoughtful approach, and their films failed as a result. The Greatest Story Ever Told has its moments (the raising of Lazarus), but it's slooooow.
I don't think minimalism works for biblical stories. You need that grand theatricality, that rhetorical, mannered acting style, and a scale big enough to encompass the material. Better to go big than too small. Plus, pace. For all their stateliness, DeMille's films move.
Actually, there are a number of King David specs floating around.
I wonder if, when filming these bible-inspired stories, the creators will adhere to the source material or take the kind of revisionist approach that's all the rage in the fairy-tale films that have come out lately and that are in the pipeline, where the values of the original fairy-tales are often inverted.
On another forum, someone mentioned that a take on King David that makes Goliath the protagonist (not just the central figure, but the hero) would definitely be fresh and novel. Probably never get made, though.
KingDavid, filmed to the letter, would be fresh and novel as is.
Genesis from 'satan's' point of view. (I know, I know...it's been done
Has it? I can't recall where. Would be interesting.
The long-in-development Paradise Lost adaptation seems to have stalled, and that, if filmed properly, or at least Romantically, would have Satan as the protagonist.
Has it? I can't recall where. Would be interesting.
The long-in-development Paradise Lost adaptation seems to have stalled, and that, if filmed properly, or at least Romantically, would have Satan as the protagonist.
I was specifically thinking of Paradise Lost, and, yeah, it hasn't been filmed yet. I wrote a half-assed novel where God left long ago, leaving Lucifer in charge of the monkeys. He's the one who kicked them out of Eden. I even had Lilith make an appearance.
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