Are you excited about what films have been coming out the past few years: Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and of course, The Passion of the Christ!?
Are you ready for more?
Myriam, Mother of the Christ
Written by The Passion of the Christ screenwriter, Benedict Fitzgerald. At the NEA (New Evangelization of America) Conference in Irving, TX, earlier this month, we were graced with a reading from the script. It was an amazingly discriptive taste of Fitzgerald’s extraordinary screenwiritng talents. So as not to ruin the beauty of his exact words, I will say simply that we might experience a big screen rendition of the devil, bowing before the pregnant Mary.
The film will be shot in HD (High Definition) in Morocco starting in the next couple months and will be released Easter 2008.
The Hollywood Reporter had this to say about the film:
MGM has acquired North American distribution rights to “Myriam, Mother of the Christ,” the biblical story of Mary. The screenplay is written by Benedict Fitzgerald, who penned “The Passion of the Christ.”
The film, slated to bow around Easter 2008, is a dramatic rendering of the key events in Mary’s life leading up to the birth of Jesus and the holy family’s journey from Egypt to Nazareth following the death of King Herod. The story is told from Mary’s point of view as she gradually understands the unfolding of God’s plan and responds to her calling. No director or cast is attached.
“We believe that a feature of this quality and pedigree will have an inherent appeal to many movie consumers in North America,” MGM chief operating officer Rick Sands said. “The film has the potential to become a perennial favorite each holiday season.”
Please pray for Benedict Fitzgerald as he finishes Myriam, and continues to write films based on the universal truth of his and our Catholic faith.
