{"id":1535,"date":"2007-05-26T23:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-26T23:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/05\/the-ten-commandments-the-animated-film\/"},"modified":"2007-05-26T23:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-26T23:20:00","slug":"the-ten-commandments-the-animated-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/05\/the-ten-commandments-the-animated-film.html","title":{"rendered":"The Ten Commandments &#8212; the animated film"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/RlkpJKmee-I\/AAAAAAAAAYA\/vFb4voWC0P4\/s1600-h\/tencommandments2007.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/RlkpJKmee-I\/AAAAAAAAAYA\/vFb4voWC0P4\/s400\/tencommandments2007.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br><span style=\"font-family: georgia\"><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/newsbites-plissken-becket-commandments.html#3\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Two months ago<\/a>, I made an extremely brief reference to an upcoming CGI cartoon by the name of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0955411\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Ten Commandments<\/a><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tonight, I discovered that if you click <a href=\"http:\/\/aci-americancinema.com\/Main.htm\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>, you can see a promo featuring several of the filmmakers, including Christian Slater (who plays Moses), Alfred Molina (who plays the Pharaoh Ramses), Elliott Gould (who plays God) and Ben Kingsley (who played Moses himself in a 1995 TV-movie produced as part of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/bible-collection-comes-to-dvd.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the Bible Collection<\/a>\u201c, but merely narrates this newest version).<\/p>\n<p>I haven\u2019t a clue what to expect from this film, though I note that Slater says it will go further than <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/05\/newsbites-narnia-cds-african-jesus.html#1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Prince of Egypt<\/a><\/i> (1998), which <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/04\/passover-incomplete-without-shavuot.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pretty much came to an end<\/a> at the crossing of the Red Sea.  It seems the new film will get at least as far as God telling the Hebrews that they must wander in the wilderness for 40 years.<\/p>\n<p>This is at least the third project to bear this name in recent years.  Of course, the name is most commonly associated with the films that Cecil B. DeMille directed <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/03\/ten-commandments-what-sort-of-colour.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">in 1923<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/03\/katherine-orrison-interviews-up.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">in 1956<\/a>.  But last year alone, we also saw <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/04\/today-exodus-tomorrow-world.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a TV mini-series<\/a> and the DVD release of <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/ten-commandments-musical.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a stage musical<\/a> starring <i>The Prince of Egypt<\/i>\u2018s Val Kilmer.<\/p>\n<p>If the new cartoon sounds like a remake, that may not be entirely accidental; one of its two directors, John Stronach, was also a producer on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/5552515994\/petertchatta\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">animated version<\/a> of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/depictions-of-mary-in-ben-hur-movies.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ben Hur<\/a><\/i> (2003) that featured <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/09\/thought-re-ben-hur.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Charlton Heston<\/a>\u2018s voice a few years back.  And Heston, of course, played Moses in the 1956 version of <i>The Ten Commandments<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of actors, I can\u2019t help recalling that Slater and Kilmer co-starred in Renny Harlin\u2019s <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/yet-another-movie-not-screened-for.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mindhunters<\/a><\/i> (2004; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/movies\/reviews\/mindhunters.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">my review<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the new film opens in September in \u201cover 600 theatres\u201d.  Time will tell if any of those theatres are in Canada.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two months ago, I made an extremely brief reference to an upcoming CGI cartoon by the name of The Ten Commandments. 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