{"id":11912,"date":"2013-12-11T12:15:23","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T20:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=11912"},"modified":"2013-12-11T21:16:55","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T05:16:55","slug":"king-david-series-a-mafia-show-in-biblical-clothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2013\/12\/king-david-series-a-mafia-show-in-biblical-clothing.html","title":{"rendered":"New King David<\/i> series: a “mafia show in biblical clothing”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"<\/a>Not too long ago, I remarked on Facebook that my kids and I had been reading The Picture Bible<\/a><\/i> together, and that our journey through the end of King Saul\u2019s reign and the beginning of King David\u2019s was making me wonder if I should go looking for a children\u2019s-storybook version of The Godfather<\/i>. All the murderous double-crosses and betrayals committed by the generals serving both royal houses, along with David\u2019s warning that his nephew Joab would be punished by David\u2019s son after David\u2019s death, had the feel of a mafia-based soap opera, or so I thought.<\/p>\n

Apparently I\u2019m not the only one who sees some similarities between the two stories, or genres. The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/i> says Mark Canton, producer of 300<\/a><\/i> (2006) and its upcoming sequel, is developing a TV series called King David<\/i> and billing it as a \u201cmafia show in biblical clothing\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Reporter<\/i> also gives us this one-sentence summary of the series:<\/p>\n

King David<\/i> pulls the Biblical hero out of scripture and brings the contradictory warrior-king and patriarch into a character who must make monstrous choices that betray his personal ideals and turn his family against him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019m not entirely sure how to interpret that sentence, myself. While the biblical David did do some things that would strike the modern viewer as somewhat monstrous, such as his semi-genocidal slaughter of the Moabites<\/a>, the conflicts within his family are generally depicted in the Bible as something initiated by the other family members, and not as a reaction to \u201cmonstrous choices\u201d made by David himself.<\/p>\n

In any case, it will be interesting to see what comes of this. There have been a number of David-themed TV-movies over the last few decades, but this is only the second ongoing series that I can think of to be based on the character \u2014 and the other one, the short-lived series Kings<\/a><\/i> (2009), was set in a modernized context and so didn\u2019t quite have the \u201cbiblical\u201d feel that it sounds like this new series will have.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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