{"id":22389,"date":"2014-10-03T11:54:29","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T18:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=22389"},"modified":"2014-10-03T11:54:29","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T18:54:29","slug":"newsbites-a-d-and-the-dovekeepers-start-production-the-political-uses-of-noah-and-more-clavius-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/10\/newsbites-a-d-and-the-dovekeepers-start-production-the-political-uses-of-noah-and-more-clavius-pictures.html","title":{"rendered":"Newsbites: A.D.<\/i> and The Dovekeepers<\/i> start production, the political uses of Noah<\/i>, and more Clavius<\/i> pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"ad-twitter-01\"<\/a>1. It\u2019s been a busy last couple of weeks for Mark Burnett and Roma Downey. Two Mondays ago, they joined forces with MGM<\/a> to revive the United Artists brand, but they were unavailable for comment at the time because \u2014 as we now know from the picture to the right, which was posted to the brand-new A.D.<\/i> Twitter account<\/a> yesterday \u2014 that was the very same day on which they started shooting the first season of A.D.<\/a><\/i><\/b>, their follow-up to The Bible<\/a><\/i>, in Morocco.<\/p>\n

Burnett did eventually grant a phone interview to Variety<\/i><\/a> to discuss the MGM deal. But he didn\u2019t say anything much about A.D.<\/i> and, bizarrely, the series does not seem to have an IMDb page yet, so I have no idea who has actually been cast in it or which characters it will focus on. But I\u2019ll keep an eye open for such information and pass it along when I find it.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, last<\/i> Monday, Roma Downey posted a video to YouTube marking the start of principal photography on their other<\/i> TV series set in first-century Judea, The Dovekeepers<\/a><\/i><\/b>. The miniseries is currently shooting in Malta, and the video featured Downey and two of the series\u2019 co-stars, Rachel Brosnahan and Cote De Pablo.<\/p>\n