{"id":44985,"date":"2016-04-26T13:52:25","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T20:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=44985"},"modified":"2016-04-26T16:03:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T23:03:36","slug":"watch-the-director-and-co-stars-of-last-days-in-the-desert-discuss-the-films-themes-in-a-new-featurette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2016\/04\/watch-the-director-and-co-stars-of-last-days-in-the-desert-discuss-the-films-themes-in-a-new-featurette.html","title":{"rendered":"Watch: The director and co-stars of <i>Last Days in the Desert<\/i> discuss the film&#8217;s themes in a new featurette"},"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\/04\/lastdaysinthedesert-jesus-hand.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44995\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2016\/04\/lastdaysinthedesert-jesus-hand-1024x334.png\" alt=\"lastdaysinthedesert-jesus-hand\" width=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-44995\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><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> premiered at Sundance over a year ago, and its release date is only two weeks away now, but very little footage from the film has made its way online. Heck, it wasn\u2019t until <a 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\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">last month<\/a> that we even got to see a trailer for the film.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Now, however, we have a new featurette in which writer-director Rodrigo Garcia and co-stars Ewan McGregor, Ciaran Hinds and Ayelet Zurer talk about the movie\u2019s themes \u2014 and along the way, we get to see some new footage from the film as well.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the featurette here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Last Days in the Desert Featurette - Jesus (2016) - Ewan McGregor Movie HD\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kWtAvLwn24s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tugg.com\/titles\/last-days-in-the-desert\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a> to register for one of the film\u2019s \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2016\/04\/watch-last-days-in-the-desert-star-ewan-mcgregor-invites-you-to-an-evening-of-film-music-and-conversation.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Premiere Event<\/a>\u2019 screenings on May 12. The film\u2019s regular theatrical release begins May 13.<\/p>\n<p>Check out earlier trailers and other videos here:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><a 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\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The first trailer<\/a> (March 24, 2016)\n<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2016\/04\/watch-last-days-in-the-desert-star-ewan-mcgregor-invites-you-to-an-evening-of-film-music-and-conversation.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The \u2018Premiere Events\u2019 trailer<\/a> (April 11, 2016)<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director Rodrigo Garcia and co-stars Ewan McGregor, Ciaran Hinds and Ayelet Zurer talk about fathers, sons, families &#8212; and how it all relates to the Son of God.<\/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":[2621,2683,814,345,2675,2676],"class_list":["post-44985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-ayelet-zurer","tag-ciaran-hinds","tag-ewan-mcgregor","tag-jesus","tag-last-days-in-the-desert","tag-rodrigo-garcia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Watch: The director and co-stars of Last Days in the Desert discuss the film&#039;s themes in a new featurette<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Director Rodrigo Garcia and co-stars Ewan McGregor, Ciaran Hinds and Ayelet Zurer talk about fathers, sons, families -- and how it all relates to the Son of God.\" \/>\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\/04\/watch-the-director-and-co-stars-of-last-days-in-the-desert-discuss-the-films-themes-in-a-new-featurette.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Watch: The director and co-stars of Last Days in the Desert discuss the film&#039;s themes in a new featurette\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Director Rodrigo Garcia and co-stars Ewan McGregor, Ciaran Hinds and Ayelet Zurer talk about fathers, sons, families -- and how it all relates to the Son of God.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2016\/04\/watch-the-director-and-co-stars-of-last-days-in-the-desert-discuss-the-films-themes-in-a-new-featurette.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"FilmChat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-04-26T20:52:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-04-26T23:03:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/wp.production.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/files\/2016\/04\/lastdaysinthedesert-jesus-hand-1024x334.png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Peter T. 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