Morgan Freeman, Affirm TV developing a series about the early Jesus followers
It's not clear yet how much of the series will be based on the biblical narrative.
Deadline reports that Morgan Freeman’s Revelations Entertainment is teaming up with Affirm Films—the Sony-owned studio behind Risen, Miracles from Heaven, Journey to Bethlehem, and Paul, Apostle of Christ—to produce a TV series about the followers of Jesus that takes place six months after the crucifixion of Jesus.
Ordinarily, one would expect a show like this to be based on the book of Acts. But it’s not clear what relationship, if any, this series will have to the biblical narrative.
This is how Deadline describes the show’s premise:
Created by John Christian Plummer, the untitled series is set six months after the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The secret Nazarene movement to spread his radical teaching of love is growing. Two families, one Hebrew and one Roman, are each fraught with their own crises of faith, and are drawn together in a complex web of espionage. The series . . . is being pitched as one about those who put their lives on the line, against extraordinary adversity, in the face of occupation and oppression by the most powerful empire in history, to bring Christ’s teachings to life.
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