Release Date: 03/08/2014
The Biblical Noah suffers visions of an apocalyptic deluge and takes measures to protect his family from the coming flood.
I'm not putting a ceiling on this movie's potential and you can't make me! I see Russell Crowe starring and Darren Aranovsky directing. Sure, it's been a while since these guys made a great movie, but they're the tandem that individually gave us Gladiator and Requiem for a Dream. Throw in Emma Watson, Anthony Hopkins, and Ray Winstone (always a solid villain) in supporting roles, and the sky's the limit. The dream sequences where God speaks to Noah look intense, and the CGI even at this early stage of post-production, looks pretty darn good.
This is the movie that Darren Aranovsky did instead of The Wolverine, when schedule delays forced him to choose. Although what he could have done with that movie is pretty intriguing (there was a lot of fat to be trimmed off that film), he definitely looks passionate about this project.
The trick with any of these projects is telling the story in such an entertaining way that even though the audience knows the broad strokes you're most likely to hit, you keep them captivated. James Cameron tried one of these big-boat-historical (For comparison's sake, we'll say the Bible's historical) stories before, and while it's easy to distill 2 minutes of entertainment from a movie into a trailer, it doesn't look like we're going the Titanic route at all. We won't be dramatizing a fictional story and using the main event everyone knows as a backdrop. We're going to spend two hours seeing Bible verse given the full Hollywood treatment.
If anything, this movie seems like it'll be blazing some new trails, with a supposed Christian Bale-carried Moses film coming later in 2014. There isn't much to compare it to, since I can't remember the last bible movie that didn't star Charlton Heston, or come packaged via thinly-veiled C.S. Lewis. I'm always willing to give established filmmakers the benefit of the doubt when they're trying to give us something, if not new (it doesn't get much older than the Bible), at least fresh, and if nothing else, this trailer seems to prove this movie will deliver on that front.
This is the movie that Darren Aranovsky did instead of The Wolverine, when schedule delays forced him to choose. Although what he could have done with that movie is pretty intriguing (there was a lot of fat to be trimmed off that film), he definitely looks passionate about this project.
The trick with any of these projects is telling the story in such an entertaining way that even though the audience knows the broad strokes you're most likely to hit, you keep them captivated. James Cameron tried one of these big-boat-historical (For comparison's sake, we'll say the Bible's historical) stories before, and while it's easy to distill 2 minutes of entertainment from a movie into a trailer, it doesn't look like we're going the Titanic route at all. We won't be dramatizing a fictional story and using the main event everyone knows as a backdrop. We're going to spend two hours seeing Bible verse given the full Hollywood treatment.
If anything, this movie seems like it'll be blazing some new trails, with a supposed Christian Bale-carried Moses film coming later in 2014. There isn't much to compare it to, since I can't remember the last bible movie that didn't star Charlton Heston, or come packaged via thinly-veiled C.S. Lewis. I'm always willing to give established filmmakers the benefit of the doubt when they're trying to give us something, if not new (it doesn't get much older than the Bible), at least fresh, and if nothing else, this trailer seems to prove this movie will deliver on that front.