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just watch his review on youtube.
First look: The Young Messiah, based on Anne Rice’s Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt. (And yes, the film has a new title.)QuoteIt’s been a long, long road to the big screen for Anne Rice’s Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt — see here for more details — and now, with the film in the can and the release date only six months away, there is one final twist: a change to the movie’s title.Focus Features stated in a press release today that the film is now called The Young Messiah. Director Cyrus Nowrasteh explained the change this way: This new title better conveys how our film seeks to present a realistic portrait of Jesus as a child both grounded in faith and consistent with the adult Jesus revealed in the Bible. As believers, we hope that children will be drawn to the child Jesus and that this can be an uplifting film for the entire family,” said Mr. Nowrasteh. “It’s important to us that The Young Messiah inspires people to visit, or revisit, Jesus’ story from a fresh new angle, one that centers on an unexplored moment in His life between the nativity and His crucifixion and resurrection. We also hope that, in some small way, our film leads viewers to the transformation and grace that Jesus extends to us all.”With any luck, this might mean we won’t have to wait much longer for a trailer. The film itself comes to theatres March 11 — two weeks before Easter weekend. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/filmchat/2015/09/first-look-the-young-messiah-based-on-anne-rices-christ-the-lord-out-of-egypt-and-yes-the-film-has-a-new-title.htmlThe Young Messiahhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt1002563/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_1
It’s been a long, long road to the big screen for Anne Rice’s Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt — see here for more details — and now, with the film in the can and the release date only six months away, there is one final twist: a change to the movie’s title.Focus Features stated in a press release today that the film is now called The Young Messiah. Director Cyrus Nowrasteh explained the change this way: This new title better conveys how our film seeks to present a realistic portrait of Jesus as a child both grounded in faith and consistent with the adult Jesus revealed in the Bible. As believers, we hope that children will be drawn to the child Jesus and that this can be an uplifting film for the entire family,” said Mr. Nowrasteh. “It’s important to us that The Young Messiah inspires people to visit, or revisit, Jesus’ story from a fresh new angle, one that centers on an unexplored moment in His life between the nativity and His crucifixion and resurrection. We also hope that, in some small way, our film leads viewers to the transformation and grace that Jesus extends to us all.”With any luck, this might mean we won’t have to wait much longer for a trailer. The film itself comes to theatres March 11 — two weeks before Easter weekend.
I hope Severus is a good role. Because otherwise, I'm thinking it would be very interesting to see Sean as Herod.
Learning that the murderous Herod is dead, they set out to return to their home of Nazareth in Israel, unaware that Herod's namesake son is, like his father, determined to see the boy Jesus dead.
Severus looks good
The Herod in this story is Herod's namesake son ....
Quote from: patch on September 03, 2015, 08:40:21 AMSeverus looks goodYes, looks good. I hope it's a good part.
Sean Bean, whom readers likely know from The Lord of the Rings films, plays one of the main characters in the film.
Focus Features has revealed our first glimpse at the early life and upbringing of Jesus in the upcoming film The Young Messiah with a new featurette that takes you behind the scenes of the religious picture. Check out The Young Messiah featurette below, and look out for the full trailer debut this coming Thursday!
In case you missed it, faith based movies were a big story recently as War Room, a movie that almost no one had heard about previously, and that, by almost all accounts from the mainstream media, is terrible, shocked many by finishing it’s debut weekend in the number two spot at the box office race. It then went on to take the top slot the next weekend. Realizing there is, in fact, a market for films of this nature, studios are getting more and more behind them, and FOCUS Features has released this new trailer for The Young Messiah. The film dramatizes their struggle as a family to come to terms with the fact that, Jesus is, in fact, the son of God, which must be something for a kid that young to wrap his head around, at the same time they have to contend with angry Romans, including Sean Bean, searching for the Messiah—I’m willing to bet little Jesus wins over Sean Bean in the end.
And, of course, the trailer focuses on the Roman officer played by Sean Bean, who is apparently told by one of the Herods to track down Jesus. I don’t remember any subplot like this in the book, but it’s possible I’m forgetting something.
And somehow Sean Bean is in this, and Sean Bean makes anything he's in that much better.
I saw an early screening of The Young Messiah that is set to release in March.[....]And the story adds a dramatic stakes of life and death with a Roman centurion played by Sean Bean hunting down the elusive child on orders from Herod Antipas to kill him (because of the failure of his father to do so at the Slaughter of Innocents in Bethlehem years earlier). This was a brilliant addition to the story that was not in the novel, but makes the story more exciting as a movie. (Of course, it’s hard to make the danger seem real cause we know that he won’t ultimately kill Jesus, but the drama and suspense are still entertaining, as is the centurion’s own spiritual journey, since he had participated in the original Slaughter of Innocents.)
The next crucial casting decision to be made was for the newly written role of Severus, a character who was not featured in the novel. Severus is a Roman Centurion hired by Herod to find and kill the boy Jesus.Sean Bean, who had worked with 1492 Pictures on both Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief and Pixels, was immediately drawn to the project from a historical perspective, as well as to the complexity of the character of Severus. “He’s reluctant to get involved. He sees the rebellions that are happening and the brutality of the environment around Jerusalem with the various factions, but he has orders from Rome to obey Herod. He’s in the middle of two worlds, but you can see compassion there.”Cyrus Nowrasteh notes, “When we were writing the script, I wanted Sean Bean from day one. I’ve been a fan of Sean for years. I’ve seen him play villains, I’ve seen him play heroes, and I think he’s a tremendous actor. Sean has a presence about him and a believability. He seems to have an interior life and he always seems to be thinking. There’s a lot to him. The character he’s playing is a guy who’s seen a lot, done a lot, knows a lot, and felt a lot – and we have to see that on his face without his saying much. Sean’s that kind of actor.”Sean Bean says that his character is of importance to the story: “He sees Jesus and his family, he’s out and about on the streets and the city all the time, and then he answers to Herod, who sits there on his throne surrounded by concubines and debauchery. Eventually, he has a big change of heart. He decides who he can be loyal to, and that’s Jesus, ultimately. You could say he’s the first convert to Christianity; he epitomizes that.”
Once Jesus was cast, “we cast around him,” Nowrasteh said. “Everybody has to have the same accent.” The only household name in the cast is Sean Bean, who plays Severus, a Roman centurion ordered by the now-dead King Herod’s son to kill this boy who’s already performing miracles.Severus is a character not seen in the Rice book. Neither is the human-appearing Demon. Nowrasteh, who co-wrote the script with his wife, Betsy Giffen Nowrasteh, said “Christ the Lord” was done in the voice of the Christ Child, who alluded to dangers and evil spirits although none ever became physically present in the book. Severus and the Demon were created to make that danger palpable to the viewer.
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The Decision A Roman commander finds and corners Jesus and must decide whether or not he should follow through on his order to kill or capture him.