the lumo project

The Covenant (dir. David Batty & Ben Hilton, 2023)

An Old Testament prequel to the Lumo Project's word-for-word adaptation of the gospels.

Aug 8, 2025 • Peter T Chattaway

Watch: The trailer for The Lumo Project's Acts of the Apostles

Lumo's newest word-for-word adaptation will premiere on YouTube over the next several days.

Jul 30, 2025 • Peter T Chattaway

The Chosen's Last Supper sequences

A detailed look at which Bible passages the show uses and in what order, and at how the Last Supper sequences do and don't agree with ancient customs…

Jun 26, 2025 • Peter T Chattaway

Newsbites: Covenant! Noah! Godspell! Chosen!

A word-for-word Old Testament movie, Noah rises up the Netflix charts, Judd Apatow produces a Godspell documentary, and The Chosen comes back to…

Mar 21, 2024 • Peter T Chattaway

Simeon and Anna meet the Christ child in film

Most dramatic adaptations of this story focus on Simeon and ignore Anna altogether, but there is one film that does the opposite – and it comes from an…

Feb 2, 2023 • Peter T Chattaway

Clothes, nudity, and baptism in Jesus movies

The early Christians were baptized naked. Jesus himself is naked in some of the icons depicting his baptism. But very few films have dared to go that…

Jan 6, 2023 • Peter T Chattaway

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