Interview: The Promised Land director Mitch Hudson on making a comedy series about Moses

Mitch Hudson knows his way around a crowd scene.

For the past six years he has been an assistant director on the life-of-Jesus series The Chosen, working with background actors in scenes both big (like the Feeding of the 5,000) and small (like when characters are walking down the street).

Now he’s tackling a potentially even bigger story, as the writer an…