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(JTA) — “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind,” the bestselling book by Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari, will be adapted to a movie. The film will be adapted from the book by American director Ridley Scott and British documentarian Asif Kapadia, the Hollywood Reporter announced Wednesday. The non-fiction book charts the course of the development…
Morocco lifted its ban on the movie “Exodus: Gods and Kings” after Fox Studios and director Ridley Scott took out offensive dialogue. Morocco had banned the film because of dialogue that implied that one of the characters was God. In Islam it is forbidden to give God a corporeal form. The movie was banned on…
Christian Bale as Moses in Ridley Scott’s ‘Exodus’ / Photo copyright 20th Century Fox Bible spin-offs are nearly as old as the Bible itself, but this year saw a couple of big-screen adaptations that were hard to rival in their ambitions, or their controversies. Darren Aronofsky’s “Noah,” starring Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly, provided a…
The biblical account of the Exodus from Egypt is a classic story of freedom from bondage, of the raising of the downtrodden, of God avenging the weak and punishing the mighty. It also raises some unpleasant questions. According to the Talmud, the angels wanted to sing praises when the Egyptians were killed, only to be…
(JTA) — The first trailer for Ridley Scott’s upcoming take on Exodus is out, and JTA is here to obsessively parse its 97 seconds so you don’t have to. With “Exodus: Gods and Kings” following closely on the heels of Darren Aronofsky’s “Noah,” we appear to be experiencing at least a mild renaissance of biblical…
Photo: Entertainment Weekly This is not Charleton Heston’s Moses. The first stills of Ridley Scott’s “Exodus” have surfaced, and it’s clear we’re in for something new. Christian Bale, our new Moses, is clad in armor and on horseback wielding some kind of weapon. According to Entertainment Weekly, Bale hesitated before taking on the iconic role….
