Come Anticipate THE BOOK OF GENESIS (In Glorious 3-D)

http://www.deadline.com/2010/03/gods-the-star-in-3-d-creation-tale/#more-27826

"EXCLUSIVE: The world’s oldest story is on a collision course with cutting-edge Hollywood technology. I’m told that Paramount Pictures and former Walden Media co-founder Cary Granat producing with Reel Fx are mounting In The Beginning, a 3D telling of the creation story. The film is using The Book of Genesis as its primary resource. A script has been written by John Fusco (Hidalgo), and directing will be TV vet David Cunningham. This pair had teamed with Granat on a Walden film that never happened, Rebels: The Green Mountain Boys. Reel Fx is spearheading the visuals and will soon turn over test footage the filmmakers hope will prompt a green light. Paramount will co-finance and distribute.

I'm told the $30 million film will use 3-D visuals to transform the oft-told tale into a spectacle that the filmmakers hope will attract family- and faith-based audiences that flocked to The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, that first Chronicles of Narnia installment made on Granat’s Walden watch. I hear Granat pitched the film by claiming that the Adam And Eve story has never really been told by a feature film. (At least not since John Huston.) The Genesis tale of creation took a week that began with God creating light, culminating with Adam and Eve on Day Six, and a day of rest on Day Seven. But I can guarantee you this film is going to take more than a week to make. Where's Cecil B DeMille when Hollywood needs him."

pfft at "World's Oldest Story". Gilgamesh, anybody?

I remember reading on the wiki page for Benaiah that David Cunningham was going to make a movie just about that obscure Biblical figure. You know, the man who slew a lion in the time of snow, the guy who killed an Egyptian with his own spear. Anyway, time for fun:

Zac Efron is David the shepherd boy.

who will do Cain and Abel?

Owen and Luke Wilson.

:D

Jeff Bridges as Abraham

Mickey Rourke as Samson

Morgan Freeman as God

Don't be silly.

Morgan Freeman as God

Samuel L. Jackson as Satan

pfft at "World's Oldest Story". Gilgamesh, anybody?

― generosity and necrophilia (latebloomer), Monday, March 8, 2010 5:13 PM (1 hour ago)

Totally! There goes Hollywood again, ripping off other countries. I hear the Sumerian original is much better.

Would be great if this were inspired by the R. Crumb book.