{"id":43028,"date":"2016-03-24T12:58:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T19:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=43028"},"modified":"2016-03-25T09:43:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T16:43:19","slug":"watch-ewan-mcgregor-plays-jesus-and-the-devil-in-the-first-trailer-for-last-days-in-the-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2016\/03\/watch-ewan-mcgregor-plays-jesus-and-the-devil-in-the-first-trailer-for-last-days-in-the-desert.html","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Ewan McGregor plays Jesus and the Devil in the first trailer for Last Days in the Desert<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
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Fourteen months after it premiered at the Sundance film festival<\/a> \u2014 and just in time for Easter \u2014 we finally have a trailer for Last Days in the Desert<\/a><\/i>, which stars Ewan McGregor as both Jesus and the Devil in a story set sometime around the end of Jesus\u2019 forty days of temptation in the wilderness. Check it out below the jump.<\/p>\n
Here is the trailer:<\/p>\n
<\/iframe><\/p>\nThe film is written and directed by Rodrigo Garcia, and in addition to McGregor it also stars Ciaran Hinds, Ayelet Zurer and Tye Sheridan. The director of photography is Emmanuel Lubezki, who has won the Oscar for cinematography three times in the last three years, for his work on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/tag\/gravity-2013\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Gravity<\/a><\/i>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/tag\/birdman\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Birdman<\/a><\/i> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/tag\/revenant-2015\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The Revenant<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\nThe film is currently scheduled to come out May 13, or six weeks from tomorrow.<\/p>\nMarch 25 update:<\/b> And here is the movie\u2019s poster:<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2016\/03\/lastdaysinthedesert2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43074\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2016\/03\/lastdaysinthedesert2-691x1024.jpg\" alt=\"lastdaysinthedesert2\" width=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-43074\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The film, which premiered at Sundance last year, opens in May of this year.<\/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":[814,345,2675,431],"class_list":["post-43028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-ewan-mcgregor","tag-jesus","tag-last-days-in-the-desert","tag-satan"],"yoast_head":"\n<title>Watch: Ewan McGregor plays Jesus and the Devil in the first trailer for Last Days in the Desert<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The film, which premiered at Sundance last year, opens in May of this year.\" \/>\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\/03\/watch-ewan-mcgregor-plays-jesus-and-the-devil-in-the-first-trailer-for-last-days-in-the-desert.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Watch: Ewan McGregor plays Jesus and the Devil in the first trailer for Last Days in the Desert\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The film, which premiered at Sundance last year, opens in May of this year.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2016\/03\/watch-ewan-mcgregor-plays-jesus-and-the-devil-in-the-first-trailer-for-last-days-in-the-desert.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"FilmChat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-03-24T19:58:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-03-25T16:43:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/wp.production.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/files\/2016\/03\/lastdaysinthedesert-cropped-1024x364.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Peter T. 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