{"id":9268,"date":"2013-07-26T15:14:30","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T22:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=9268"},"modified":"2013-07-26T15:14:30","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T22:14:30","slug":"church-groups-get-their-first-glimpse-of-noah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2013\/07\/church-groups-get-their-first-glimpse-of-noah.html","title":{"rendered":"Church groups get their first glimpse of Noah<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"<\/a>The release of Darren Aronofsky\u2019s Noah<\/a><\/i> is only eight months away, so it\u2019s about time the studio started drumming up some interest in the film by showing bits and pieces of it to the general public. (As a point of reference, we have already seen a couple trailers<\/a> for another<\/i> highly stylized take on the ancient world that is based on a graphic novel and coming out in March of next year, namely 300: Rise of an Empire<\/a><\/i>.)<\/p>\n

So far, though, by my count there has been nothing in the way of official publicity material for the film, beyond a handful<\/a> of photos<\/a> featuring Noah and a few other characters, such as his grandfather Methuselah.<\/p>\n

However, if you happened to attend a recent trade conference or two, you might have seen some actual footage from Noah<\/i>. And now, according to The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/i>, the studio has started to show clips from the film to actual churchgoers, too.<\/p>\n

Last night, an \u201cexclusive sneak peek\u201d at the film was shown at the Echo Conference<\/a> in Dallas, Texas, to the apparent delight of Twitterers there, and the footage was preceded by a video intro featuring Aronofsky himself:<\/p>\n

In the intro, Aronofsky talks about how he had dreamed of making a movie about Noah since he was in the 7th grade, when a poem he wrote about the biblical character won a contest and he read it before the United Nations. Aronofsky says that experience \u201cgave me the courage and spirit to be a writer. So Noah\u2019s very much been a patron saint in my life leading me towards my creative endeavors.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m also excited that Hollywood has finally agreed to make the first biblical epic in almost 50 years,\u201d he adds. \u201cIt\u2019s been a long time since Bible movies were on the screen, and there\u2019s been a lot of advancements in technology and special effects, and maybe that\u2019s the reason why Noah\u2019s never been attempted on the big screen before because of the size and scale of the deluge and all the different animals\u2026But now, finally, with Hollywood\u2019s help, we can actually do this and bring it to life.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Two quick fact-checks, if I may:<\/p>\n

First, the story of Noah has<\/i> been attempted on the big screen before, though to my knowledge it has always been combined with modern-day storylines, as in Noah\u2019s Ark<\/a><\/i> (1928), or with other stories from the Book of Genesis, as in The Bible: In the Beginning\u2026<\/a><\/i> (1966). And then there are the films that have riffed on the story without being biblical adaptations per se<\/i>, such as Evan Almighty<\/a><\/i> (2007).<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also not quite accurate to say that no Bible epics have been made for the big screen since the 1960s. Obviously, there\u2019s all sorts of room to quibble over how big or expensive a movie has to be before it counts as an \u201cepic\u201d \u2014 so presumably low-budget movies like The Last Temptation of Christ<\/a><\/i> (1988) and mid-budget movies like The Nativity Story<\/a><\/i> (2006) wouldn\u2019t count, and presumably animated films like The Prince of Egypt<\/a><\/i> (1998) don\u2019t quite qualify either \u2014 but what about, say, King David<\/a><\/i> (1985), which was produced by the very same studio that is now making Noah<\/i>?<\/p>\n

All that aside, it\u2019s good to hear that footage is now being shown to people outside the industry. Now we just need to see an actual trailer, online or in theatres!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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