The Nativity Story chronicles the arduous journey of Mary and Joseph, a miraculous pregancy and the history defining birth of Jesus.

The kind people at Heritage HM have provided AMS with 15 passes to the new film The Nativity Story.

To win one just answer the following question: Following the releases of The Passion of the Christ and The Nativity Story what Biblical story should be the subject of a new film?

The 15 most creative pitches (answers) will win a free pass.

I would like to see the Acts of the Apostles on the mega-screen. Imagine the new blockbuster : “The men who turned the world upside down”.

With the Mediterranean as a scenic background for all the adventures of the apostles spreading a revolutionary message. And I can just imagine the cameras doing a panoramic sweep of the Areopagus and passing along the Greeks’ little statue gods - and stopping on the altar with the inscription “To the Unknown God.”

And then Paul gives his tumultumous sermon. ( I remember years ago hearing Billy Graham talk on this passage. He talked of Paul saying “there’s MY TEXT for today’s sermon...” ) I find the Book of Acts to be so dramatic - and the words are so powerful. I think I’ll start on the screenplay right now ..

Man of Many Colours - the life of Joseph.

Sold into slavery by his jealous brothers (dramatic music and scenes of mayhem as Joseph is dumped)

Wooed by a king’s daughter (sexy looking scene of a glamorous chick reaching out to a handsome young man)

Left to rot in prison when he spurned her (a man sits forlornly in a dungeon)

Saved by providence and a king’s dream (violins accompany misty and mystical looking scene of a man standing up to his full height as if for the first time in years)

This is the story of the man who saved two nations from the impact of nature at it’s devastating worst (images of desert and drought)

Who united a family that had left him for dead (Judah in tears kneeling before his brother)

And who learned the true meaning of life and love.  (A smiling Joseph surrounded by Jacob and his brothers)

Joseph, the son of Jacob, the man of many colours.  (Final image of adult Joseph remembering his young self wearing the coat of many colours)

Coming soon to a cinema near you.

As an employee of AMS I don’t think I’m eligble but anyway…

I’m waiting for Passion 2: the return

Just when the evil King Herod and his sidekick Pilate thought they’d gotten rid of Jesus.... he’s back and he ain’t happy

“Isaiah - the Movie”

Chronicalling the seige of Jerusalem by the Assyrians. You could get WETA to do the effects…

Great ideas people!
If I had the money I would fund each and every one of these films.
What I can do is give each one of you - as promised - a free pass to ‘The Nativity Story’.
But there are still eleven passes left, so keep the pitches coming.

About a boy.

The life of the boy Jesus. I’ve always wanted to know what it must have been like to be one of Jesus’ siblings. Would they have been asked by their mother, ‘why can’t you be like your brother?’

I think Paul would be great. He is a true action man. And funny too.

The life of the boy Jesus. I’ve always wanted to know what it must have been like to be one of Jesus’ siblings. Would they have been asked by their mother, ‘why can’t you be like your brother?’

I haven’t read it yet, but I did buy it as a present for my pastor. Christ the Lord by Anne Rice tells the story of Jesus’ boyhood from the perspective of the boy Jesus’. Anne Rice wrote the Vampire stuff-Interview with a Vampire-but has converted since and intends to write the entire life of Christ from His perspective. Very ambitious! My pastor loved Christ the Lord by the way. If nothing else it is apparently very well researched.

Back to the competition: what about a series from the perspective of donkeys in the bible? Balaam’s ass and the colt that Jesus rode approaching Jerusalem.

Also satan-cast as a vicious desperado, knowing his doom, trying to take as many down with him. I reckon John Malkovich, Donald Sutherland or Kevin Spacey would all be great in that role.

I’ve always wondered why King Saul never featured in a Shakespearean play. He had all the makings of that complex, flawed hero and catastrophic downfall that all Shakespearean tragedies are made of.

(Surely that’s worth 2 tickets...)
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Elijah - Prophet of God

This is the OT story that needs to be told. It has almost everything. Think about the contest between Elijah and the Prophets of Baal.

Peter.

I have already thought a lot about this topic - I would pitch a massive epic called:
Son of Nun.

I can just imagine all the scenes

Intro:
Joshua’s commission
Memories of Moses
The Crossing
Rahab
Encounter with a king
The Sin of Achan
The March
Jericho
The Wall
A new country

Just a silly idea really

Jonah?

Daniel - with Nebuchadnezzar as the main character of psychological interest?

Whilst I know I’m partial to my own name - I do think the love story of Ruth and Boaz would be a great movie!

The Prayer of Jabez?

what a shame there isn’t a Barry in the bible…

No Barries, but there are a couple of Ben Hurs.
I thought Ben Hur was a fictitious character.

Not the same geezer as the OT blokes, though, of course.

Nor the tomcat who later had kittens, hence the name change from Ben to Ben Hur.