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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.
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I hear God drives a hard deal for backend points
So are Adam & Eve going to be cast as caucasian, blonde hair, blue eyes? Mixed race? Or better yet (and more true to actual human evolution) African American?
No, there’s no evolution here. This film is science fiction, so they can use any ethnicity they want.
Science fiction requires some semblance of science. I think the genre you’re looking for is “fantasy.”
Actually, it’s only fiction. There is no science involved in creation…
there’s plenty of science in creation actually.
@Vic-”It’s only fiction, there’s no science involved.” … I love you.
@Evolving-They can’t use any ethnicity they want, they have to be white because God only loves WASPs.
Can we pretty please ditch the oh-so popular phrase “African-American”? I happen to be white. Am I “White” or am I an Irish/English/German-American”?
When can we flush this phrase down the toilet?
We can ditch the phrase when the people who are identified by it no longer wish it used. Its up to the african-american community, not you or me, to say who they are.
IMHO the only African-Americans are the first/maybe-second generation American immigrants from Africa. Folks that still have ties to the nations over there, speak the languages etc…
I’m Black. Not from Africa. Don’t know anything about it except what I’ve read in books or have seen on the discovery channel. My ancestors actually come from France and Germany, but if you met me, no one would ever call me a European-American. So no African-American for me either.
I’m for flushing the term. Off-topic, I know, but needed to be said, especially in this town.
No, the phrase is ditched when we refuse to buy into the rhetoric that spawned the phrase. I am a third generation American. None of my kin was involved in the slave trade. While slavery was a colossal fail in terms of humans treating other humans a certain way because a an iron age book of fables said it was legal, it is history rather than current events in this country.
Time to move on folks. You can either be trapped in the past or create your own future.
I’m hispanic but white skinned. I don’t want to be called white any more, so stop doing it, it’s not your place.
Oh wait, it’s the color of my skin – get over it.
When you think about it, wouldn’t it be more correct to say ‘African’ than ‘African-American’? This is Adam and Eve we’re talking about–a decidedly pre-Africans-in-America couple.
No. I prefer the term “Earthlings.” Watch out for me in the night because I might just come to get you in my spaceship.
Which community? Some people with darker skin prefer to be called black. The whole idea of identifying a person’s race only makes sense if it is a key component of what they are doing: like, a description of a fleeing robbery suspect.. it helps if you know he is light skinned, vs, medium or darker complexioned, when you’re searching for him. Otherwise, we ought to forget it and just judge people on the content of their character… hmmm… that sounds kinda catchy!
So you are saying that if I wish to be called an African-American because that label entitles me to some form of…shall we say…social or political or whatever kind of endearment…it does not matter that I am not one?
Point being, and as they’ll tell you across the pond, just because one is black, does not make one “African”. Just because one is brown does not make one “Mexican”. Just because one is yellow does not make one “Chinese”. (Shall we go on? No.)
If someone is African-American or ANY kind of American, GREAT! The annoyance comes from the temporary “sexiness” and/or popularity of the label. I have a friend whose older brother is a famous pro surfer. She is a blond-haired and blue-eyed Barbie doll from SOUTH AFRICA. She’s more “African-American” than most of these so-called “African-Americans”!
Why can’t we just be “Americans”???
Nice PC response, but you are wrong. I will call whomever whatever I please; I have never used the term “African American” and I never will.
I ditched that phrase a lng time ago. If I’m called white I can refer to AA’s as black. Otherwise don’t refer to descriptive terms at all.
Actually, I’m pretty sure Adam and Eve weren’t African-American, since I have a strong suspicion that Eden predates America.
What cast do you think will sell more tix? The poster children from that ridiculous, latest Vanity Fair Cover or the cast from any Tyler Perry film?
Use mo-cap to create digital characters that are amalgamations of humanity’s various races. Would probably be an “exotic” look.
None of those.
To be a 3-D blockbuster, God is going to cast Adam and Eve as….blue smurfs!!
I think it will be a caucasian couple – but at least it means black people can’t be blamed for original sin. lol
Will the Easter Bunny have a cameo?
Let’s hope so.
They weren’t African American numbskull. Just plain African will do. America wasn’t a country back then…
I mean, it’s about a fictional pair of rubes from one of civilization’s many creation myths, I don’t think realism or adherence to actual human evolution is the objective here.
Uhh… Adam and Eve weren’t African-American… there was no America (and technically no “Africa” either)
africa is a continent you idiot, not a country, thats like saying asia didnt exist
AMEN!!!
where else in the world could eden have been but Africa!
Actually the Bible discribes them as being in the middleeast, near the Tigris and Euphrates rivers which is in modern day Iran. So I guess that would make Adam and Eve Middle eastern
Actually the middle east nor Africa existed because before the Flood the world was in one peice…Pangaea…the tigris, Euphrates, pishon, and Gihon (which some think) is the Red Sea marked Eden. So it was in the middle of Africa and the Middle East. It’s a matter of plate tectonics.
I prefer to be called Black, even though my skin is brown and I’m from a long line of creole, mulatto, mestizo, african peoples. This is American. I am American.
I think Adam and Eve should look like the mult-racial population such as Rosario Dawson, The Rock, Vin Diesel, Thandi Newton, Wentworth Miller, Maddison Pettis, Mariah Carey, Jennifer Beal, Barak Obama, Raw Dawn Chong, Kristin Kreuk, Adriana Lima. That way everyone is happy cuz they have a little bit of everything. They represent all of us…and show our humanity is what’s important not our skin color because “race” doesn’t exist.
God Bless!
Actually they were middle eastern
So, we evolved from African Americans? LOL! African Americans are Americans who are descendants of the people of Africa. The Bible doesn’t allow for evolution, It says God created man and woman in His image. America didn’t exist when the Bible was written. They probably look like middle-eastern people.
(evolution)…?we are created by God and that is the truth..
Says a book written by… men.
Bill, Bill, Bill…You don’t understand, do you…
Does it really matter?
they have to be caucasian,it was not after noahs three sons that all the other races apeared, noahs sons.Shem,ham and japheth read your bible in Genesis 9,10,11.And ask for revelation..God Bless
So why do they have to be Caucasian? Who says there were Caucasians before the flood? I certainly don’t see anything like that in the bible I read (and I have a LOT of translations)…
PS And what is the purpose in insisting they were Caucasian? Are you willing to be open about your agenda as to why they should be that color?
I’m pretty sure, in keeping with the strictest intentions of the authors (or Author, if you will) of Genesis, that Adam and Eve should appear Semitic if anything (as God’s Chosen people are).
The only race mentioned in the Bible is the Human Race… There were other cultures in the Bible but we are all human. Red and Yellow, Black and White we are precious in his sight… not from the Bible but a Sunday School song but the truth none the less. It is we who make a big deal about race and the difference of our appearance not God. I say Adam and Eve were a nice health tan… but that’s just me.
I would like to think that olive skinned coloration with a tint on the dark side for one should be appropriate, while the other is light enough to allow for a good combination to allow for the rest as the world has so many possibilities. IT is a sad thing to have to avoid what should be attempted to be done. Go to the website of answersingenesis.com should be comforting for you if you will take the time out to look at it. They have done an excellent job of portraying the Book of genesis, and I hope you will be greatly and pleasantly surprised by their efforts. They have a great ministry to the whole world if you care to peek at it.
This is the creation account so evolution has nothing to do with it. And besides, research indicates that the “african-american” race most likely ascended from Ham – one of Noah’s sons.
LOL, the first humans were not African Americans, are you saying that Americans that had ancestors from Africa traveled to Africa to become the first humans?
Geesh the PC times we live in, I think you mean to say that the first humans more than likely were from Africa and had black skin.
or perhaps more accurately African African
What is the one thing that all people of darker skin tone have in common? They all originally came from countries where the sun was so hot, that their skin had to use pigmentation to protect itself from being burned. Eden was paradise on Earth, and I don’t imagine Adam and Eve getting sun burnt running around naked. There was no need for skin pigmentation, as everything was perfect then, the sun was never too hot. So I guess they had to have pale skin.
Really, human evolution. If they are making this film “true to human eveloution” they may as well give up now. That’s completely contrary to the story. First of all African Americans are only dark skinned because they originally migrated into africa and are only a product of their environment there. God created man most likely, but no one can be sure, looking like the people who are from the middle east, also a product of their envirnment. Dark hair, dark skin etc., but they could have even been light skinned and eventually become darker looking over time. And sorry to burst your bubble, but Darwin’s theory (although he had good intetions), was proven wrong since the discovery of DNA.
African Americans didn’t exist in the beginning. Although Africa is the cradle of civilisation, the bible states Adam & Eve lived in the garden of Eden, presumably where they were made as well which would have been according to early Christian fathers and late classical authors in Mongolia or India or Ethiopia. In the past hundred years. since the discovery of ancient civilizations in modern Iraq, scholars have leaned toward the Tigris-Euphrates valley in general, and to the sites of southern Sumer, about 150 miles north of the present head of the Persian Gulf. They wouldn’t have been white, and if you are talking scientifically, would’ve been a group of at least 12 distinctive genetic groups. But the story of Adam & Eve is just a story regardless, so who cares? If there is one American accent in it the whole film will be a farcical propaganda-fuelled parody of Yankee supremacy and ideology. The fact that it was a communist society will likely be glossed over anyhow.
Oy vey.
no not oy vey what are u jewish its good that poeple everywhere will be able to see the first 10 books of the bible in theaters but poeple should not make extra things that are not in the bible stick with the original content that are in the bible so never say oy vey if u have nothing good on here dont say nothin at all
Oy vey all over again.
I’m not Jewish, and I’m Australian, but… oy vey…
Oy vey!
Everyone is spending loads of cash to jump on the post Avatar 3D band wagon. It’s lame & it’s going to fade out in the same gimmicky fashion as before. Until it does fade, the big visual fx films are inevitably going 3D, as it’s just keeping up with the Jones’s.
The effects can be fun for the 1st few minutes, but they really don’t add that much to the experience once you settle in, the glasses are sometimes a hinderance and despite the technology being much improved, it’s not going to be the determining factor when deciding what movie to spend your cash on…talent, story, etc will always trump the gimmick in the long run.
AMEN!!! (seemed appropriate, given the topic…)
Right on, Chris!
Avatar was a good five minute experience. Would have preferred going to Disneyland, sitting in a both and watching it as an FX experience. It was not a movie. It was an example of new technology.
Pass. Hey execs. You know this word? Pass? Use it. This stuff if borrrrrrrrinnnnnnnnnnnnnng.
people said the TV and internet were gimmicks that wouldn’t last too. the immersive experience of avatar and other well done 3d movies are the only reason i and other people go to the movie theater.
True that. Millions of people have gone to see Avatar over and over again, not for the story or the quality of the film/storytelling, but for the tech.
The quality of 3D is bad (diffuse lighting, murkiness, less than sharp) and really didn’t enhance the storytelling. 2D CGI looks more realistic than 3D and its heightened artifice (especially in Avatar). 3D is not about storytelling, but about experiencing.
Once Hollywood comes out with totally immersive videogame type stories on the big screen (BOOM), what happens to storytelling on film? Film is meant to be a 2D experience, about stories and light and shadow and colour. 3D is, indeed, just a gimmick. Lets call it what it is and not pretend that it will be anything but a boy’s toy.
What a great idea. Why has it taken so long for someone to recognize
that this would be a great film. If this is the guy behind Lion Witch
this should be exciting to watch.
It is.
And why has it taken so long? Mel Gibson financed THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST himself for a reason. Be REALLY interested in hearing how what would have to be a big budget epic based on…wait for it…THE BIBLE!!!…will be developed.
“K. Guys, we just…we REALLY need to tone down all this ‘God’ stuff. And has Taylor’s people gotten back to us on the ‘Adam’ offer?”
The very thought of this makes me want to scream… UNLESS it’s presented the complete mythology that it is. No doubt Eve will be emphasized as the seducer and corrupter of all MANkind, and many will laud the film for it’s “strong female lead.”
Now, if it were the folks behind “The Golden Compass,” I could feel optimistic…
You mean if the people making it, believe exactly how you believe, you’ll be excited…Just ’cause you don’t believe in something, doesn’t mean you should call it mythology, or attack it merely for that reason…that makes you sound ignorant.
Oh yeah, and we can use this to get Paris Hilton’s career back on track by casting her as Eve, alongside Vince Vaughn in the role of Adam. Hijinks, hilarity, and creationism… About time someone gives America what they really want in a movie.
John Huston did this in 1966 it was called THE BIBLE he even played Noah.
Yes, Mr. Huston not only directed that overblown movie, he narrated it, played Noah and the Almighty, which meant in key scenes of the Noah story, he was essentially talking to himself.
As to the idea of making Genesis I into a movie, if you actually read an accurate translation from the original Hebrew, the six days of Creation and Adam/Eve stories seem like two completely different authors – and historically probably are.
If I were making this movie, I’d use Genesis I as a pre-title prologue and make the bulk of the film about the first man and first woman discovering their relationships to themselves, each other, their environment and the Deity and focus on the humanity. It would be too easy to succumb to make Hustonize the story and put everyone up on holier than thou pedestals and I hope the filmmakers avoid that trap.
It’s not “the world’s oldest story.”
well if its family oriented– how are the going to show Adam & Eve, if they can’t be nude . In sweatsuits? sounds like a bomb to me.
Good point, since Adam and Eve covering their nudity was a clue to God that they had partaken of the forbidden fruit.
David’s not a TV vet (though he did the ABC 911 movie for Stephen McPherson and a MOW event project Little House). David is a director who cut his teeth traveling the world with his dad (he’s been to over 100 countries). He can shoot anywhere, very much in the vein of a Doug Liman). He’s got some serious chops and can shoot on a shoestring, though those shoestrings aren’t so tattered these days with his WME agency reps taking care of business (It’s not business, it biznasty!)
Should be a great film…hope it is! -Jg.
Absolutely fantastic! Not sure how they’ll do it at that budget, but if they can pull it off well this thing could be huge. Will there be dialogue?
Cary Granat is a true genius, somebody who gets filmmakers and gets content. The fact that a foolish lawyer drove him out of Walden is their ultimate loss. Anyone who was sued by the Weinsteins has a badge of honor that should make them a hero to all of Hollywood.
Awesome idea. They just better stick to the source material. If not, kiss the target audience goodbye, as well as the “Passion of the Christ”-like opening that a good adaptaption would easily command. By the way…Adam and Eve would need to be medium-complexioned quasi-african-americans (say it 3 times fast, lol.)
Great question xtr, we’ll see if they even place the Garden of Eden in Africa as known. The filmmakers should be torn as to how they choose to tell it. Pangea comes to mind also…..
The problem will be that the film will get an R Rating from the MPAA for the most probably implied nudity in the Garden of Eden.
Yikes.
Isn’t “Clash of the Titans” enough mythology?
@ least Houston got Peter O’Toole to play god.
Who will play the mythical character this time?
Clooney?
HAHAHAHA!
Really, people.
Can’t you do anything original?
I was wondering what Granat was up to.
Where does Mel Gibson play into this?
I’m only 19 and go to film school, it was my dream to direct the Adam and Eve story with cgi technology once I grew up. Damn you!!!!!!!!
Awesome, I love science fiction films. Can’t wait to see the scene where the two kangaroos swim from Australia to the Ark. I’ve always wondered how they kept their pouches from filling with water, and who navigated.
Bad idea.
There is a reason why this story has never been told – nothing scares away kids and teens more than the Bible. And a story about creation? When did Sarah Palin become head of Paramount?
Bad idea. Bad idea. Bad idea.
How big a cut of the box-office gross is God getting?
Who’s going to play God? James Cameron?
oh my GOD!
after seeing blue dancing with wolves navi and alice in wonderland i was going to say to expect everything now from the Bible onward that was ever written to be 3D’d for future earnings potential………but I see someone has had this idea also!
why stop at adam and eve? Let’s go full world:
3D really would do justice to the Hopi birth of the earth story or that we’re all a dream of the Buddha and when he awakens we’re gone.
I’m underwhelmed that we have to go backwards for our stories instead of looking forwards – so many science fiction writers who are doing stories that have cutting edge ideas of where society is going and what it will look like and they studio honchos are going to use 3D on a bible story instead of 3D on a science fiction story.
*facepalm* moment.
we’d better get some good full frontal or I’m walking out!
This reminds me of the movie “And God spoke…”
Genesis Chapter 2 verse 5 and Genesis Chapter 2 verse 18 show that Adam and Eve came before plants and animals while Genesis Chapter 1 verse 12 says Adam and Eve came after plants and animals.
Why culminate creation of Adam and Eve on day six when the later chapter shows them being created on day three?
It’d be much more interesting for Adam and Eve to watch while life magically pops into existence around them.
“…a 3D telling of the creation story.” should be “…a 3D telling of a creation story.”
This is fantastic and such an original idea.
Think of the branding….
Think of the young minds to mold and shape….
This must be a selfless project….
Non Profit….Yes??
I’m just wondering if the movie is going to pay lip service to The Bible. [EXAMPLE: Kubrick's version of "The Shining" used elements but barely grasped the true plot intricacies brought to life in the novel by Stephen King. He took a great deal of artistic license--which is Kool and the Gang when making a cinematic piece--and produced a great film. But it was not an accurate screen portrayal of the written word--some elements, of course, but overall not even close.]
So…I’m curious as to whether Paramount and former Walden Media co-founder Cary Granat is going to try to portray the Bible’s version of Genesis, or invoke artistic license to make a Hollywood blockbuster that caters to teh special effects appeal and is ultimately geared towards box office take and Oscar nominations for the “shock and awe” value it gleans from its incredulous uniquity.
Great to see people in Hollywood using technology to produce the most popular story ever told in print and as as #1 top selling book. John Huston did the Bible in 1966 and Mel Gibson did the Passion in 2004 to huge box office acclaim. Maybe someone in Hollywood will produce the book of Revelation to beat out Avatar as an epic, it’s a better script and a sight more scary with loads of effect.
See: Know1ng
Hey xtr: “African American”? Don’t you mean just African? Sorry, but this bothers me. People have become so brainwashed by political correctness that people will say African American whenever they mean black, even if the person in question is actually African (or Jamaican, or Haitian, or Black-English, or otherwise black and in no way American). At this point political correctness stops being sensitive and actually becomes more offensive than it would have been to have just said “black” when you meant it.
Well put. LOL If I told someone I was Scottish-American…say, a Scot for instance…I’d get beaten with a knotted up kilt. Or should be, anyway.
So it would be ok for Charlize Theron to play Eve? She IS African American…
Oy vey is right.
SERIOUSLY?! ok, how ’bout this: You can make a movie about the Book of Genesis, but if God doesn’t appear for a cameo you have to summarily end religion and get to work making the world a better place for ALL.
Is this a joke?
Dude thats like way cool!
Jess
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This is going to be so stupid. Get over your fairy tales already.
I hear God is tech unavail, I just checked him out for the new Taylor Lautner vehicle.
Plus he’s offer only, he won’t even read.
I hear there is no script, the producers are literally using the first 100 pages or so of the bible…word for word…
I think it’s grate , cant wait for more Christian Movies to be maid , I hope it will be an accurate account , like the Passion , we need to see more of the TRUTH Visual…Thanks..Elf
“made”
not to mention, “great.”
Just another fairy tail I guess they will just ignore the story of Lilith, Adams first wife.
I didn’t realize fairies had tails? Do they use their tails to sprinkle magic dust?
By the way, one would have to ignore the story of Lilith, because it is nonexistent. You would know this if you’d taken a minute to do some simple research.
Will the Catholics say what ends up on the cutting floor? Which version will be used; King James? New King James? NIV? on & on & on?
Let me guess, The New King Hollywood version. This ought to be a real good comedy when finished. A left wing slant on contradictory right wing material. Or is that a right wing slant on left wing material? Hurry up please, I can’t wait to laugh at you west coast boneheads.
I’m an atheist and I think this is a fantastic idea, it will highlight exactly how ridiculous this story is. I’m really excited to see the serpent with legs. Maybe this will also make people think harder about the fact that Genesis implies that all humans are products of incest.
I would disagree with the article that this is ‘the world’s oldest story,’ it’s predated by a number of other creation myths including Assyria, Ancient Egypt, and Sumeria.
3D is here to stay. It’s coming to our living rooms in video games, sports and documentaries (to start) and will become expected at our movie theaters. It’s not all about the “wow” or shock-and-awe factor. That will fade but the overall feeling of witnessing something closer to reality than we’ve seen in art before will remain for a long time. Remember this simple rule…replace the words “sound” and “color” with “3D” any time you talk about it and know that any statement that is true for the former will become true for the latter. Just like some films have more interesting sound and color that get noticed, even years from now artists will still be able to create new visuals that will make spectacular use of 3D.
Now can someone tell me how you become a “former Walden Media co-founder?” Edison isn’t the “former” inventor of the light bulb yet and he’s dead. Once you’ve founded something, it’s founded. No one can unfound it.
Oh puhleez. 3D is all about the wow factor, a sensuous experience. And the concept of what constitutes “reality” is debatable. 3D will be terrific for sensation laden games and experiences. It has little to do with filmmaking. You mentioned “visuals”. Yeah, that. Nothing to do with storytelling.
Take away Cameron’s 3D and what is left?
Cecil B.DeMille said, “Give me any two pages of the Bible and I’ll give you a picture.” But if the good Walden folks dare make the FULL story of Genesis, midrash and all, the Fundies will be all over them.
I am sure that the Walden folk wouldn’t know Midrash if they stumbled over it. You’re kidding, right?
This will be a winner, as long as there are lots of car chases, explosions, and maybe a wise-cracking ferret voiced by Whoopi Goldberg.
looking forward to it. I wonder what they will do with Genesis 1: 6-8.
Water above the sky? Pre-flood aquasphere? Hope so.
Another look into current interpretations of 5000 year old fairy tales. I wonder if there will be a talking snake with legs. Also curious to see how they portray an “all knowing” being who gets a nasty surprise.
So humans evolved from African Americans? America is somehow a million or more years old? Interesting
Kirk Cameron cast as Adam. Ray Comfort could be Eve.
The snake could be played by Richard Dawkins.
I would pay to see that!
It should definitely be in 3D!! Good going Paramount. Just image the apples coming at you from the screen. And the serpent. Can’t forget that sneaky little bugger. I wonder if Adam and Eve will be naked through the film or will they have little leaves covering their private parts, like the way it was in real life??
I like 3D movie!
thanks, that is good news for me!
Oh, and the action figures. I can’t wait for more movie action figures!!
Mark my words, this movie will be played by white, blonde-haired, blue-eyed actors and actresses, and will be the highest grossing film of all time, doubling Avatar’s box office take.
Clarence Darrow said it best: “I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose”.
This is awesome!!!! As a Christian, this makes me happy to know that someone in Hollywood is willing to bring the Christian story of creation to the big screen (especially in 3D!!).
And to you Anti-Christian/Religion people, get a life. If you think this is a bad idea, just ask Mel Gibson how well he did with “Passion of the Christ” and say it was a bad idea.
Just for the record, Swancman, the Adam and Eve story is from the Old Testament. Therefore, it is a Jewish story of creation.
There is certainly no doubt that Mel Gibson made a ton of money by exploiting the suffering of Jesus. It’s just a shame that he couldn’t have been bothered to include any of his messages, too; you know, the part about Jesus that was actually important.
So, you mean to say The Box Office is your God? And that Mel should actually bow down to the Ticket Sales?
I think the term “get a life” applies only to the dead.
You’re comparing Christ, our savior, to Adam and Eve?
Repent sinner!
People who use God and religion for profit are bad news. All that money Gibson obtained from making a film about Jesus should have been given to a good cause. I don’t think Jesus/God would be happy about people making money off of his crucifixion, suffering, etc.
Will Adam and Eve be 3D naked, ya think?
By the way, it’s not a Christian story.
I think in theory it’s a great idea, but hopefully they don’t compromise on the content just to make a buck. And to all of you anti-Christian haters out there… God loves you
I wanna play the snake. Where do I sign up?
Currently in bookstores: R.Crumb’s meticulously faithful comic book adaptation of Genesis.He hasn’t changed a word, or drawn anything not described in the original… and people are divided on whether he’s honouring the Bible or satirizing it.
THAT’s what the producers are going to have to deal with.
Hah Hah, My plan is working..
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
It is rather absurd, if you think about it.
Seriously – have we not changed from any historic movement that has sailed through our lives?
For those of you who posted a comment about the concern for ethniticy being of a certain kind whether white or black for this casting of a stupid project – YOU ALL ARE RACIST.
Get over it, I hardly doubt you can cast a movie about Frank Sinatra – black, or cast a movie about Martin Luther King – white.
All of you religion haters can suck it!!!!! You have enough hedonistic crap from Hollywood to watch. Leave this one alone!!!!
This thread is a perfect example of why so many in Hollywood is out of work. The majority of people are religious, and the vast majority of them in this country are Christians. It is the single, largest potential audience available to filmmakers.
And a movie that might appeal to that audience – Hollywood doesn’t have a great track record in this regard – is met with foaming at the mouth derision and bigotry.
There is a connection.
As per the Geno-graphic project results, Adam and Eve can be black. However, as per the same project results, they can be white as well for they went black only due to the scorching heat of the sun after they were thrown down on Earth. I think, a great selection for the skin color of Adam and Eve will be the skin color of Southern Pakistanis – neither white, nor too black, but somewhere in between – that’ll be just perfect.
lol All the aforementioned issues they’ll have with production – ethnicity, nudity etc. – should be a hint to people that creation is NOT what happened. If it gives Hollywood a hard time, that’s pretty telling. I hope they put at least a disclaimer explaining that this is how Christians THINK it happened. Way too many people reject evolution already anyway….
It better not be all sandals and rib bones like the Passion.
Doh, Jesus should come in at the premier and start turning over the tables of the ticket sellers shouting “You have turned my word into profit and my churches into a den of thieves.”
Good one!
Cablinasian.
Finally, Hollywood wakes up. This is a movie that should have been made years ago. If this is really the team from Walden and Narnia I have a huge amount of hope that this can done with integrity. Kudos to Paramount for having the vision to dive in. This will be huge.
I agree. If 2012 can make over $400 million worldwide with no plot, no emotion, and little reality, the opposite can work as well. This is a story that BILLIONS of people around the world know by heart. This should be a gigantic hit. I am amazed this is being made. Hollywood is traditionally run by people who pride themselves on making anti-spiritual/anti-faith oriented projects. Cameron’s Avatar was an ode to Astro-Shamanism – yet no one screamed that he was making a Religious statement. they loved it for what it was.
wow I would love to see this. Has the potential to be brilliant and a huuuge hit. This is the only kind of thing that could ever top Avatar at the box office. hope it goes forward
As long as they don’t cast the blue guy from Watchmen. Its bad enough sitting through that movie with my girlfriend in 2D without adding the ‘weightiness’ of the third dimension.
I don’t think Adam and Eve are going to be the center focus of this film. I think the films’ main message will be about conservation of the environment. Whether you believe or not in God, creationism, evolution, or whatever, it is non disputable that we have ONE planet, and should do what we can as human beings to take special care of it.
Gag! Please, NOT another ‘environmental’ story! If they take that route, it’ll fall into a different theological realm (Panthesim, etc…), so I can’t see that happening.
In truth, I’m really happy this movie is happening, as long as they do it with integrity. Hollywood doesn’t really have any of that, so if they can manage to do it ‘outside the system’, then I’m all for it.
Ultimately, if God finds the pursuit acceptable and honorable, he will honor the effort. If the creators of the film veer off course, I’m sure God will give them a little nudge of a course correction.
There aren’t enough Christian content films being made with decent budgets. Most of them suffer from dismal funding and second rate levels of production, even though the stories are usually fantastic, universal morality tales that everyone should see. Christian films don’t need to beat people over the head with the ‘Jesus stick’. They need to uphold the values and lessons that He brought to us.
Geeze people. Just because you don’t believe the same things doesn’t mean you have to be such jerks about it.
The Biblical creation myth is hardly the oldest story known. It was was lifted directly from the much, much older Mesopotamian creation myth recorded in their holy text, the Enuma Elish. Similarly, the “Noah’s flood” myth was plagiarized off of the Epic of Gilgamesh.
There’s not alot in The Bible that is original material. Not even Jesus. Sorry!