{"id":610,"date":"2008-10-09T19:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T19:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/10\/newsbites-the-biblical-epic-edition\/"},"modified":"2008-10-09T19:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T19:37:00","slug":"newsbites-the-biblical-epic-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/10\/newsbites-the-biblical-epic-edition.html","title":{"rendered":"Newsbites: The biblical epic edition!"},"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><span style=\"font-family: georgia\">Just a few quick updates on some previously announced projects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">1.<\/a> <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/year-one-set-photos-surface.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Year One<\/a><\/i>, the upcoming biblical comedy produced by Judd Apatow and directed by Harold Ramis, is going back for reshoots at the end of this month. \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/louisianamovies.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/year-one-needs-extras-for-reshoots.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Louisiana Movies Blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"2\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">2.<\/a> At the tail end of a long-ish interview on the making of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/billy-early-years-interviews-up.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Billy: The Early Years<\/a><\/i>, writer-producer Bill McKay says he is \u201cin pre-production\u201d on <i>Resurrection<\/i>, which he describes as \u201ckind of a sequel to Mel Gibson\u2019s picture \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/01\/passion-of-christ-article-archive.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Passion of the Christ<\/a>.'\u201d He says he was brought onto the project by Sony, which raises a few questions: Is this the same film that <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/yet-another-movie-about-resurrection.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tim LaHaye was developing<\/a> for Screen Gems, which is also affiliated with Sony? Does this mean LaHaye\u2019s movie is still in the works? Or is this a completely different project? \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/christianmovienews.com\/christians-in-cinema-bill-mckay-billy-the-early-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Christians in Cinema<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"3\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">3.<\/a> Christian Duguay\u2019s $30 million <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/ben-hur-to-become-mini-series.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">TV mini-series<\/a> adaptation of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/romans-drinking-and-driving-again.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ben-Hur<\/a><\/i> is one of several projects that the Alchemy Television Group is bringing to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mipcom\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">MIPCOM<\/a> in Cannes, France next week. \u2014 <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/hr\/content_display\/news\/e3iced839ebc8085600c6cb1753523e754e\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few quick updates on some previously announced projects. 1. Year One, the upcoming biblical comedy produced by Judd Apatow and directed by Harold Ramis, is going back for reshoots at the end of this month. \u2014 Louisiana Movies Blog 2. At the tail end of a long-ish interview on the making of Billy: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Newsbites: The biblical epic edition!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Just a few quick updates on some previously announced projects.1. 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