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\"\"<\/a>Things have been a little quiet on the Bible-movie front lately, but when I spoke to The Star<\/i> producer DeVon Franklin last month<\/a>, he said he would be announcing something very soon regarding a movie set in the Garden of Eden.<\/p>\n

Well, today that announcement came. Deadline<\/a> reports that Franklin will be producing a new hybrid live-action \/ CGI musical called The Garden<\/i> with Fox Family:<\/p>\n

The Garden<\/i> will follow how the first animals and people discover the meaning of friendship, community, and unity in a world that is completely new.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sounds very uplifting. I wonder how \u2014 or if \u2014 it will deal with the serpent, the forbidden fruit, the Fall, and so on. I also wonder how it will deal with Adam and Eve\u2019s nudity!<\/p>\n

The Garden<\/i> is based on a pitch by Michael Weiss \u2014 who was one of several producers on White Boy Rick<\/i> along with Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel<\/a>, the director and co-writers of Noah<\/a><\/i>, which also<\/i> depicted the Garden of Eden! \u2014 and Gregg Ostrin, whose most recent writing credit at the IMDb is a 1999 episode of Xena: Warrior Princess<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Franklin, who first started working in the \u201cfaith-based\u201d genre as an executive at Sony, is currently putting the finishing touches on Breakthrough<\/a><\/i> for one of Fox\u2019s other divisions; that film, which tells the true story of a boy who was clinically dead until his mother prayed for him, is due to come to theatres in April, just in time for Easter. When I spoke to Franklin last year, he said The Garden<\/i> would use the same combination of live-action footage and photorealistic CGI that Disney\u2019s recent remake of The Jungle Book<\/i> used. (As it happens, the Fox film studio is currently being acquired by Disney. Hmmm.)<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll have more to say about Breakthrough<\/i> soon \u2014 and hopefully The Garden<\/i>, too!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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