Job, one of the most referenced stories of the Bible, is getting the big screen treatment in an upcoming film starring Walton Goggins and Marion Cotillard, Variety has reported. Announced this week, the film will be written and directed by Yuval Adler and the article calls the reimagining “provocative.”
Adler’s “Job” will move between timelines — “juxtaposing the ancient wager between God and Satan with the modern-day unraveling of a marriage under pressure,” an early synopsis of the film explains. “As their private lives bleed into their performance, a standoff on set raises an unexpected question: who gets to play God?”(Variety)
The story of Job has been rarely depicted onscreen in its original timeline, although some films have updated the story as an allegory for the human struggle and going through tests and trials. In Job, readers have found some of the most well-regarded and promising verses of Scripture, such as:
Job 19:25—I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth.
Job 1:21—… “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will depart. The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away; may the name of the LORD be praised.”
Job 13:15—Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face.
Biblical dramas are having their moment right now, propelled by the widespread success of “The Chosen” and “House of David.” The trend isn’t slowing down anytime soon, with “The Faithful: Women of the Bible” from FOX Entertainment releasing this Sunday and “Joseph of Egypt” from 5&2 Studios/Amazon MGM Studios releasing soon.
What Bible stories would you like to see dramatized as a film or television series?
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