{"id":20549,"date":"2014-07-25T15:03:10","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T22:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=20549"},"modified":"2014-07-25T15:03:10","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T22:03:10","slug":"christ-the-lord-gets-an-easter-2016-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/07\/christ-the-lord-gets-an-easter-2016-release-date.html","title":{"rendered":"Christ the Lord<\/i> gets an Easter 2016 release date"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"christthelordoutofegypt\"<\/a>Christ the Lord<\/a><\/i> now has a release date. Focus Features has announced that its adaptation of Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt<\/i>, the Anne Rice novel about the early years of Jesus, will come to theatres on March 23, 2016.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s almost four weeks after the release date for Timur Bekmambetov\u2019s remake of Ben-Hur<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n

It also happens to be the Wednesday before Good Friday on the Western calendar. So, like this year\u2019s Heaven Is for Real<\/a><\/i> and next year\u2019s Hillsong United documentary<\/a>, Christ the Lord<\/i> will tie in to the Easter weekend but give the holiday itself a bit of breathing room.<\/p>\n

The film is being directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh from a script he co-wrote with his wife Betty. No actors have been hired yet, but the filming is set to take place at the Cinecitt\u00e0 Studios in Rome and in Matera, a southern Italian town that has appeared in other Bible movies such as The Gospel according to St. Matthew<\/a><\/i> (1964), King David<\/a><\/i> (1985), The Passion of the Christ<\/a><\/i> (2004) and The Nativity Story<\/a><\/i> (2006).<\/p>\n

Variety<\/a><\/i> notes one detail that I had missed before, i.e. that the film shares an executive producer, Enzo Sisti, with Mel Gibson\u2019s The Passion of the Christ<\/i>.<\/p>\n

The book takes place when Jesus is a boy and his extended family makes the journey back to Nazareth after hiding in Egypt for several years. The film is one of at least three projects currently in the works about the \u201cformative years\u201d of Jesus, the others being the Fox miniseries Nazareth<\/a><\/i> and the Lifetime TV-movie The One<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n

For more information on the book and its long, complicated journey to the silver screen, follow the links in this post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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