{"id":72483,"date":"2022-01-24T11:46:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T19:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=72483"},"modified":"2022-01-24T11:46:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T19:46:06","slug":"new-podcast-drama-starring-laurence-fishburne-kerry-washington-to-include-contemporary-retelling-of-three-biblical-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2022\/01\/new-podcast-drama-starring-laurence-fishburne-kerry-washington-to-include-contemporary-retelling-of-three-biblical-stories.html","title":{"rendered":"New podcast drama starring Laurence Fishburne, Kerry Washington to include “contemporary retelling of three Biblical stories”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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This isn\u2019t exactly movie news, but, considering the cast involved, it\u2019s movie-adjacent<\/i>, so\u2026<\/p>\n

Variety<\/a><\/i> reports that Laurence Fishburne and Daniel Dae Kim have joined the cast of an eight-episode Audible podcast drama series called Prophecy<\/i>, which counts among its producers one Kerry Washington, who will also co-star in the series.<\/p>\n

There are lots of movies, TV shows, and podcasts about the supernatural out there, and I don\u2019t ordinarily report on them because there\u2019s just so much out there and they\u2019re all over the map, but this one catches my eye because of the \u201cbiblical\u201d elements.<\/p>\n

To quote the story:<\/p>\n

In \u201cProphecy,\u201d when a series of unexplainable events happens simultaneously around the world, hydrologist Virginia (Washington), British zoo veterinarian Daniel (casting TBA), and commercial driver Jonah (Kim) find themselves at the head of each phenomena under investigation by government agent, Thomas (Fishburne). As they fight for survival, they soon realize that they are all connected in a contemporary retelling of three Biblical stories: the Virgin Mary, Daniel in the Lions\u2019 Den, and Jonah and the Whale.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, consider my curiosity piqued.<\/p>\n

The series is being written and directed by Randy McKinnon, whose visual-media credits<\/a> include a short film called Mary<\/i> about \u201ca religious mother as she comes to grips with her daughters imaginary friend\u201d. So he\u2019s got religion on the brain, obviously.<\/p>\n

The podcast series is expected to debut on Audible in the second half of 2022.<\/p>\n

\u2014 The image at the top of this post is of Laurence Fishburne in Oliver Parker\u2019s <\/i>Othello (1995).<\/i><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prophecy<\/i> will be about three people who find themselves reliving the stories of Mary, Daniel, and Jonah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":72498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[851,6146,3239,6420,2696,556,6417,6423],"class_list":["post-72483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-daniel","tag-daniel-dae-kim","tag-jonah","tag-kerry-washington","tag-laurence-fishburne","tag-mary","tag-prophecy-2022","tag-randy-mckinnon"],"yoast_head":"\nNew podcast drama starring Laurence Fishburne, Kerry Washington to include "contemporary retelling of three Biblical stories"<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Prophecy will be about three people who find themselves reliving the stories of Mary, Daniel, and Jonah.\" \/>\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\/2022\/01\/new-podcast-drama-starring-laurence-fishburne-kerry-washington-to-include-contemporary-retelling-of-three-biblical-stories.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New podcast drama starring Laurence Fishburne, Kerry Washington to include "contemporary retelling of three Biblical stories"\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Prophecy will be about three people who find themselves reliving the stories of Mary, Daniel, and Jonah.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2022\/01\/new-podcast-drama-starring-laurence-fishburne-kerry-washington-to-include-contemporary-retelling-of-three-biblical-stories.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"FilmChat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-01-24T19:46:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2022\/01\/othello-a.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"768\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"256\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Peter T. 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