{"id":55445,"date":"2017-03-23T11:32:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T18:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=55445"},"modified":"2017-03-23T11:32:58","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T18:32:58","slug":"netflix-teams-mark-burnett-roma-downey-messiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2017\/03\/netflix-teams-mark-burnett-roma-downey-messiah.html","title":{"rendered":"Netflix teams with Mark Burnett & Roma Downey on Messiah<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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I\u2019ve been wondering if streaming services like Netflix and Amazon would get around to hopping on the \u201cfaith-based\u201d TV-series bandwagon. As of today, it seems the answer is \u201cyes\u201d, thanks to an upcoming collaboration between Netflix and the \u201cfaith-based\u201d power couple Mark Burnett and Roma Downey, whose credits include the History Channel\u2019s The Bible<\/a><\/i> and NBC\u2019s A.D. The Bible Continues<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n

The series they\u2019re developing with Netflix is called Messiah<\/i>, and according to Variety<\/a><\/i>, it \u201cwould be set in the modern day and tell the story of the world\u2019s reaction to a man who appears to be performing miracles in the Middle East.\u201d <\/p>\n

It is not clear to me whether the miracle-performing man in question is supposed to be Jesus or, if he is<\/i> supposed to be Jesus, whether this is supposed to be a second-coming-of-Jesus story or one of those stories (like The Judas Project<\/a><\/i>) that imagines what it would have been like if Jesus had come in the present day.<\/p>\n

Burnett and Downey will have an executive producer credit along with Andrew Deane, but the actual creator of Messiah<\/i> is Michael Petroni, who previously created the ABC series Miracles<\/i> in addition to writing the screenplays for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader<\/a><\/i> and the exorcism drama The Rite<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n

Deadline<\/a> notes that the series has not been greenlit yet, and that it came to light this week only because it was approved for over $7 million in California tax credits.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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