Watch: A new featurette for Risen, and new TV spots for Of Kings & Prophets and the live musical The Passion

The videos for new Bible-themed movies and TV shows are coming at an increasingly fast clip these days. Here are three that popped up in the last day or two.

1. First, this four-minute featurette for Risen features quotes from producers Mickey Liddell and Pete Shilaimon, as well as Affirm Films chief Rich Peluso:

It covers the same basic ground as the other featurettes we’ve seen so far, though at one point Peluso says, “It was important for us, as we were going through the process on Risen, starting on the script stage through production, was to involve pastors and leaders and people that I’ve known and worked with and trusted for 25 years.”

This makes it sound like Affirm Films was involved with Risen from the start. But Affirm, and its parent company Sony Pictures, only announced their association with the film ten months ago, after the movie had already been shot. I suppose it’s possible that Affirm was secretly involved all along, but it still sounds kind of odd to me.

Liddell also states that this is “the very first time that we’ve seen a fictional story like Clavius, you know, woven into a biblical story like the, in the New Testament, the Resurrection.” That’s a bit of an exaggeration, of course: films like The Robe and The Inquiry have also told fictitious stories about Romans who were involved with the death of Jesus and/or investigated rumours of his resurrection afterward.

2. The Saul-and-David series Of Kings & Prophets has a new 30-second spot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aIjOFOM4ks

3. Tyler Perry has a 30-second spot introducing his live musical The Passion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoCdg70QtZg

Check out earlier Risen trailers and other videos here:

• The first trailer (April 29, 2015)
• The second trailer (August 28, 2015)
• The second trailer with updated release date (November 5, 2015)
• The ‘Clavius’ Journey’ and ‘Key Leaders’ featurettes (December 10, 2015)
• The ‘On Set & Behind the Scenes of RISEN’ featurette (December 15, 2015)
• The ‘Pastor Craig Groeschel On Why RISEN Makes An Impact’ featurette (January 13, 2016)
• The first 15-second social-media video (January 18, 2016)
• The ‘Claims to Be the Messiah’, ‘It Is Finished’, ‘Secure the Tomb’, ‘The Body Is Gone’, ‘Perhaps It’s True’, ‘What Made You Follow Him?’ and ‘Sweat and Herbs’ clips, the early junket interviews with Joseph Fiennes and Cliff Curtis, and the second 15-second social-media video (January 29, 2016)

Check out earlier Of Kings & Prophets trailers and other videos here:

• The trailer for the original pilot episode (May 12, 2015)
• The ‘Legend’ promo (January 6, 2016)
• The ‘New Extended Trailer’ and ‘Series Premiere’ trailers (January 29, 2016)