{"id":38558,"date":"2016-01-08T18:46:04","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T02:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=38558"},"modified":"2016-04-05T16:49:41","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T23:49:41","slug":"the-lumo-project-asks-british-churches-to-help-with-the-premiere-of-the-first-ever-adaptation-of-marks-gospel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2016\/01\/the-lumo-project-asks-british-churches-to-help-with-the-premiere-of-the-first-ever-adaptation-of-marks-gospel.html","title":{"rendered":"The Lumo Project asks British churches to help with the premiere of the first-ever adaptation of Mark&#8217;s gospel"},"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\/2016\/01\/lumoproject-DSC_2781-a.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2016\/01\/lumoproject-DSC_2781-a-1024x286.jpg\" alt=\"lumoproject-DSC_2781-a\" width=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-38643\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Phase one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/tag\/lumo-project\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The Lumo Project<\/a> is complete. Now it\u2019s time for phase two.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Phase one, in this case, meant the completion and distribution of <i>The Gospel of John<\/i>, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/11\/new-film-based-on-johns-gospel-comes-to-netflix-next-week.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">premiered on Netflix<\/a> in 2014 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2015\/10\/interview-david-batty-the-gospel-of-john-2014.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">came out on DVD<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the producers are getting ready to release their adaptation of Mark, which is the only gospel that has never been given the word-for-word treatment before.<sup>1<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Two days ago, the Lumo Project sent out <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheLumoProject\/status\/684735291853254656\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">a tweet<\/a> inviting British churches to host \u201cexclusive\u201d screenings of <i>The Gospel of Mark<\/i> between March 14 and April 4 (basically, during the two weeks before Easter and the week following it).<\/p>\n<p>The Lumo Project\u2019s website also has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lumoproject.com\/mark-launch-header\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">a page<\/a> devoted to the upcoming screenings which features a two-minute clip from the film and a PDF file with a booking form.<\/p>\n<p>Interested parties can also send an e-mail to info@lumoproject.com.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2016\/01\/lumoproject-gospelofmark.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2016\/01\/lumoproject-gospelofmark.jpg\" alt=\"lumoproject-gospelofmark\" width=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-38628\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So the release schedule for this year\u2019s Bible and\/or Jesus movies now looks like so:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>January 5 \u2014 <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/tag\/full-of-grace-2015\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Full of Grace<\/a><\/i> (came out on DVD and Digital HD)\n<\/li><li>February 2 \u2014 <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/tag\/ark-2015\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Noah\u2019s Ark<\/a><\/i> (comes out on DVD)\n<\/li><li>February 5 \u2014 <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/tag\/hail-caesar\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Hail, Caesar!<\/a><\/i> (contains a parody of 1950s Bible movies)\n<\/li><li>February 19 \u2014 <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/tag\/resurrection-aiello\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Risen<\/a><\/i>\n<\/li><li>March 8 \u2014 <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/tag\/of-kings-and-prophets\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Of Kings and Prophets<\/a><\/i> (premieres on ABC)\n<\/li><li>March 11 \u2014 <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>\n<\/li><li>March 14 \u2014 <i>The Gospel of Mark<\/i> (begins screening in British churches)\n<\/li><li>May 13 \u2014 <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/tag\/last-days-in-the-desert\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Last Days in the Desert<\/a><\/i>\n<\/li><li>August 12 \u2014 <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/tag\/ben-hur-2016\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Ben-Hur<\/a><\/i>\n<\/li><li>August 12 \u2014 <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/tag\/shack\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The Shack<\/a><\/i> (not a Bible movie, but Jesus is one of the characters)<\/li><\/ul>\n<p>If I omitted any films from that list, please let me know in the comments. Thanks!<\/p>\n<p>\u2013<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:small\">1. The Genesis Project filmed Luke\u2019s gospel in the 1970s, and the Visual Bible filmed Matthew and Acts in the 1990s and John in 2003. The Visual Bible tried to film Mark as well, and they released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2-vPVaGmepQ\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">a teaser<\/a> to that effect in 2005 \u2014 but as of November 2009 they were still trying to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2010\/01\/newsbites-the-bible-movie-edition.html#1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">put it together<\/a>\u201d (a reference to how they were trying to find funding?), and it doesn\u2019t look like they ever made the film in the end.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus, an updated list of the Bible- and Jesus-themed films coming out in 2016.<\/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":[1603,3526],"class_list":["post-38558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-lumo-project","tag-mark"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Lumo Project asks British churches to help with the premiere of the first-ever adaptation of Mark&#039;s gospel<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Plus, an updated list of the Bible- and Jesus-themed films coming out in 2016.\" \/>\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\/2016\/01\/the-lumo-project-asks-british-churches-to-help-with-the-premiere-of-the-first-ever-adaptation-of-marks-gospel.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Lumo Project asks British churches to help with the premiere of the first-ever adaptation of Mark&#039;s gospel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Plus, an updated list of the Bible- and Jesus-themed films coming out in 2016.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2016\/01\/the-lumo-project-asks-british-churches-to-help-with-the-premiere-of-the-first-ever-adaptation-of-marks-gospel.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"FilmChat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-01-09T02:46:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-04-05T23:49:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/wp.production.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/files\/2016\/01\/lumoproject-DSC_2781-a-1024x286.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Peter T. 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