{"id":35409,"date":"2015-09-25T17:33:11","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T00:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=35409"},"modified":"2015-09-25T17:44:53","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T00:44:53","slug":"risen-is-the-first-of-next-years-jesus-movies-to-get-a-poster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2015\/09\/risen-is-the-first-of-next-years-jesus-movies-to-get-a-poster.html","title":{"rendered":"<i>Risen<\/i> is the first of next year&#8217;s Jesus movies to get a poster"},"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:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2015\/09\/risen-poster-a.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2015\/09\/risen-poster-a-1024x290.jpg\" alt=\"risen-poster-a\" width=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-35411\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are three movies about Jesus coming out in the first three months of next year. Two of them have trailers already. Now one of them has a poster.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The folks behind <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/tag\/resurrection-aiello\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Risen<\/a><\/i> \u2014 which stars Joseph Fiennes as a Roman soldier who goes looking for the missing body of Jesus \u2014 tweeted the following image today:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Witness the event that changed the course of history. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RisenMovie?src=hash\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#RisenMovie<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/JosephFiennes?src=hash\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#JosephFiennes<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomFelton\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">@TomFelton<\/a>, opens Jan 2016. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/8FzQZeGJDD\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/8FzQZeGJDD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Risen Movie (@RisenMovie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RisenMovie\/status\/647469876718624768\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 25, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The poster overreaches just a tad when it says <i>Risen<\/i>, which opens January 22, is about \u201cthe manhunt that changed the course of human history.\u201d The manhunt, of course, is utterly fictitious, and it was <i>the Resurrection<\/i> that changed everything.<\/p>\n<p><i>Risen<\/i> also has two trailers, which I posted a while ago <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2015\/04\/watch-the-first-trailer-for-risen-formerly-known-as-clavius.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2015\/08\/watch-the-second-trailer-for-risen-starring-joseph-fiennes-and-tom-felton-as-roman-soldiers-and-cliff-curtis-as-jesus.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last week we also saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2015\/09\/watch-sean-bean-and-his-roman-soldiers-go-looking-for-jesus-in-the-first-trailer-for-the-young-messiah.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">the first trailer<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2015\/09\/watch-our-first-look-at-the-young-messiah-based-on-anne-rices-christ-the-lord-out-of-egypt.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">featurette<\/a> for <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/tag\/christ-the-lord-out-of-egypt\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The Young Messiah<\/a><\/i>, which opens March 11. There is no poster yet for that film.<\/p>\n<p>The one film opening early next year for which we have not yet seen <i>any<\/i> official images or videos is Timur Bekmambetov\u2019s remake of <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/tag\/ben-hur-2016\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Ben-Hur<\/a><\/i>, which opens February 27. The producers have reportedly shown a bit of footage from that film at a faith-and-film event or two, but none of those images have been made public yet.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was it the Resurrection, or a fictitious manhunt, that &#8220;changed the course of human history&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1459],"class_list":["post-35409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-resurrection-aiello"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Risen is the first of next year&#039;s Jesus movies to get a poster<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Was it the Resurrection, or a fictitious manhunt, that &quot;changed the course of human history&quot;?\" \/>\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\/2015\/09\/risen-is-the-first-of-next-years-jesus-movies-to-get-a-poster.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Risen is the first of next year&#039;s Jesus movies to get a poster\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Was it the Resurrection, or a fictitious manhunt, that &quot;changed the course of human history&quot;?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2015\/09\/risen-is-the-first-of-next-years-jesus-movies-to-get-a-poster.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"FilmChat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-09-26T00:33:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-09-26T00:44:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/wp.production.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/files\/2015\/09\/risen-poster-a-1024x290.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Peter T. 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