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Bible Movies 2013 - Sigh

10/1/2012

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So we get The Wall Street Journal here in my office.  A coworker pointed out one of the Friday headlines:

Hollywood's New Bible Stories

Immediately my heart sank.  Oh no, I thought.  What are they attempting to muck up now?  


They had their radar set on Moses, Noah, Cain and Abel and...


Our Lady.
...
...
...

*Takes deep breath*

As soon as I saw Mary's name in the mix, I skimmed the article to figure out what they could possibly want with Our Lady.  The only line about the film about her was that it was being billed as a "prequel to 'The Passion of the Christ.'"

What the heck does that even mean?  

Since I couldn't find any worthwhile info in the news article (surprise), I took to the Internet to see what was being said about it.  It's being distributed by Lionsgate, the same company that took on distribution of my husband's recent production.

However, when you attempt to get information online about this project, all you come up with is snippets like "The prequel involves Mary’s impassioned defiance of the King in order to save her son, Jesus."

Again - WHAT?  Mary as DEFIANT?!

I finally tracked down the time-frame they're working with - Mary's young life from when she was about 8 down the line until she's about mid-twenties.  The focus will be on the challenges of being a young mother who is constantly running away from Herod as he looks for ways to kill Jesus.  

St. Joseph also is portrayed through his youth to his late 20s as Mary's best friend, confidante and "soul-mate."


...

I'm trying really, REALLY hard to hold out hope that they don't muck this up.  I'll be honest, though - I'm not holding my breath.  

Bah.  


And in all of their ads and such, they're billing this as a prequel because they've got "a writer" from Gibson's film on this project.  When the person is not important enough to name and is simply listed as "a writer" who has some sort of connection to a well-known movie... they're trying to sell you on the connection, not the actual talent of the writer.

Oh sigh.

I can only hope I'm wrong.


This entire idea makes me very uneasy.

Will Smith is doing the Cain vs. Abel one.  I believe it's called "The Redemption of Cain."  Now I love Will Smith.  I do!  I think he's an incredibly talented actor who is a truly decent human being.  But I'm still wary of his take on this.  

Apparently Russell Crowe will be our next Noah while Steven Spielberg takes another crack at Moses.

This coming year is going to see a lot of confused Christians, I think.  God help us.

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Fr Levi link
10/1/2012 04:00:16 am

HI Gina,
look on the bright side ... at least they're doing a 'prequel' to the Passion as opposed to the Last Temptation ... small mercies and all that :)
blessings

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Kathryn H.
10/1/2012 08:14:28 am

I read the screenwriters include "Benedict Fitzgerald (The Passion of The Christ) and Barbara Nicolosi." Nicolosi is a serious Catholic--I've seen her interviewed a number of times on EWTN on faith, film, and culture issues. Given her profile on the Catholic Answers website, I'm hoping she will be able to influence the movie in ways that will be compatible with the Catholic understanding of Our Lady. We could use an authentic film about the Blessed Mother! Here's to hoping. :-)

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Gina
10/2/2012 03:19:58 am

Thank you both for making me feel slightly better about this. I'm still wary, but at least there's a legit possibility that not everything will be terrible.

And Father, you make a good point - it could have DEFINITELY been worse. Ha ha!

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dymphna
10/8/2012 11:40:15 am

This smells pretty bad. Although the Mary movie has nothing to do with the Passion the publicity team is invoking the sucessful movie to drum up viewers which is an old Hollywood trick to try and boost movies that are dogs.

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