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Sony, the studio behind the ultra-controversial feature film The Da Vinci Code<\/a><\/i> and the straight-to-video Left Behind III: World at War<\/a><\/i>, is now developing a feature film entitled The Resurrection<\/i>, says the Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/i>, as relayed by Reuters<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

Using the Bible for its source material, \u201cResurrection\u201d will tell the story of Jesus Christ beginning the day he died on the cross and ending about 40 days later with his ascension into heaven.<\/p>\n

According to insiders, Sony\u2019s mid-budget Screen Gems division commissioned a script several months ago from Lionel Chetwynd, the veteran screenwriter, producer and director whose credits include the feature \u201cThe Hanoi Hilton\u201d and the Emmy-nominated TV movie \u201cIke: Countdown to D-Day.\u201d <\/p>\n

Set to produce is Tim LaHaye, co-author of the best-selling \u201cLeft Behind\u201d series of books. A popular minister and frequent TV news pundit, \u201cResurrection\u201d will mark LaHaye\u2019s first foray into mainstream filmmaking. . . .<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018The Passion<\/a>\u2018 ends with Jesus being taken from the cross, and \u2018The Resurrection\u2019 opens with the empty cross,\u201d a person familiar with the script said.<\/p>\n

According to the Bible, women who visited the tomb of Jesus Christ three days after his crucifixion found it empty, and his disciples and other acquaintances, including Mary Magdalene, encountered him postresurrection on various occasions during a 40-day period.<\/p>\n

The film will focus on these dramatic encounters and their implications for the Roman garrison in Judea and the broader Roman Empire, insiders said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not a fanciful rendering. It\u2019s a serious attempt to understand the Roman world in which Christ moved and the Christian era was born,\u201d a person familiar with the project said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

FWIW, Screen Gems<\/a> is the Sony subsidiary that specializes in horror films and, lately, in not showing films to critics in advance<\/a>; their biggest hit to date is The Exorcism of Emily Rose<\/a><\/i>, which was directed by Scott Derrickson<\/a>, a practising Christian.<\/p>\n

Also, Lionel Chetwynd<\/a>\u2018s credits include Joseph<\/a><\/i> (1995) and Moses<\/a><\/i> (1996), easily the two best films in \u2018The Bible Collection<\/a>\u2018.<\/p>\n

I am, of course, intrigued by all of this, but needless to say, the involvement of LaHaye \u2014 who, incidentally, disowned the Left Behind<\/i> movies and sued their producers (unsuccessfully<\/a>) because the films weren\u2019t as mainstream or big-budget as he would have liked \u2014 lowers my expectations considerably.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sony, the studio behind the ultra-controversial feature film The Da Vinci Code and the straight-to-video Left Behind III: World at War, is now developing a feature film entitled The Resurrection, says the Hollywood Reporter, as relayed by Reuters: Using the Bible for its source material, \u201cResurrection\u201d will tell the story of Jesus Christ beginning the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nSony, LaHaye to produce The Resurrection<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sony, the studio behind the ultra-controversial feature film The Da Vinci Code and the straight-to-video Left Behind III: World at War, is now developing\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2006\/06\/sony-lahaye-to-produce-the-resurrection.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sony, LaHaye to produce The Resurrection\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sony, the studio behind the ultra-controversial feature film The Da Vinci Code and the straight-to-video Left Behind III: World at War, is now developing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2006\/06\/sony-lahaye-to-produce-the-resurrection.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"FilmChat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2006-06-08T07:08:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Peter T. 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