By Michaela Gordoni
Marion Cotillard and Walton Goggins will soon star in JOB, a reimagining of the Biblical book.
In the movie, Goggins and Cotillard will play a couple trying to put on a production of Job, whose faith was tested when he lost his wealth, children and health, Variety reported.
The story, directed and written by Israeli Jew Yuval Adler, will juxtapose “the ancient wager between God and Satan with the modern-day unraveling of a marriage under pressure. As their private lives bleed into their performance, a standoff on set raises an unexpected question: who gets to play God?” the synopsis says.
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Adler said, “We want the film to feel both timeless and urgent — like the Book of Job itself. Together, Marion and Walton will elevate this story beyond anything I could have imagined on the page.”
JOB will be produced by Dan Kagan and Ilya Stewart. Executive producers are Liz Siegal, Sean Patrick O’Reilly, Elena Silenok, Elvira Paterson, Vadim Degtyarev, Sergey Torchilin, Pavel Burian, Aleksandr Fomin and Stuart Manashil.
Adler has directed BETHLEHEM, THE OPERATIVE, THE SECRETS WE KEEP and SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL.
Another exciting installment in Bible-based entertainment is the new series, THE FAITHFUL: WOMEN OF THE BIBLE, comes out on Fox on March 22. It’s a short series that focuses on three women in the Bible.
“One thing that emerges is that all of the three stories that we chose to tell…all of these women stumble,” René Echevarria, executive producer, said. “They’re trying to figure out how to proceed in life against different complicated circumstances — sometimes encounters with the divine that are asking them to do difficult things — and so that was our sort of North Star, was always to try to understand them on an emotional level.”
The series follows the stories of Sarah, Hagar, Rebekah, Leah and Rachel, The Christian Post reported.
“Our guiding principle was that if we were going to dramatize some part of the story, a scene, let’s call it, that’s described in the Bible, then we’re going to dramatize it the way it’s described and including dialogue if there is some,” he explained. “If we choose not to show something from the Bible, we wanted to make sure that there was nothing that we didn’t present that would make those sorts of off-camera scenes impossible to have had occurred.”
A key thing that Echevarria hopes viewers take away is that God brings beauty out of mistakes and rough situations.
These stories show us the importance of those true stories that are in the Bible. In all, God brings triumph out of loss.
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