we didn t want to tell people what to think or how to feel. we just wanted to present the story. so you felt it and would seek more. and all of those things you mentioned. that moment there, where finally the disciples have realized now he is the they have been following a leader at this point who may have been the next king david to fight the romans. that shows their weakness, though, they all ran when he was arrested. peter did deny him three times. that is all included in the movie. but you did feel, part of the mini series was in the movie. but it is mostly new material built around it. yeah, so as mark mentioned we would do these screenings every week in morocco. we put the assemblies up and invited the cast and crew to come in when we were making the bible series. and as the jesus narrative started to unfold and we saw how extraordinary it was we decided
when people come to him and say he is taking the money we were gathering for the temple and you have used it to build an aqueduct. and he said really, did rome give you water or did man give you water. and the crown, render unto caesar, and the answer for me, everything is god and caesar has nothing. but they always tried to trick him and that happened every time. so much so that pilate kept telling nicodemus, he made a fool of you. he was so curious to find out about jesus. john 3: 16. all right, we ll take a break, we have a great studio audience here, when we come back my feet felt so heavy at the end of thday. they used to get really tired. until i started gellin . i got dr. scholl s massaging gel insoles.
and ministers and power-hungry people. it seems like it is not very different in spite of maybe the advancement and technology and everything else. a lot of things remain the same. especially in that scene where pilate meets jesus for the first time. there is a whole scene about when pilate asks jesus, what is truth? you know that pilate knew he was innocent. you knew that he knew the truth, but for political expediency, he was basically willing to condemn the man because it suited his political purpose. that still happens today. and you had the scribes, the leaders, they wanted him out of the way because he was a threat to their power. isn t that what is going on today? absolutely, humans haven t changed much today. we added a scene in there to show the ruthlessness of pilate
and mark burnett, son of god is their brand-new movie. i watched this movie with a number of people. there was not a dry eye in the room. has that been the normal reaction? yeah, i just think that people are really touched by the story. it is deeply moving. and i think it is one of the beautiful things to be able to watch it collectively in the cinematic experience, and feeling the overwhelming love. because it plays out like a thriller, really. it is a political thriller on the one hand, three-pointed drama with the romans led by pilate, and the temple authorities, and the disciples led by jesus. and they re all on this collision path to jerusalem, a path on this collision course. it is highly dramatic and then woven through it.
his heart. father morris will argue with me in a minute, right? no, you agree with me? but you and this is what you do in the movie. you take big biblical stories, jesus walking on water. jesus saying to peter, i ll make you a fisher of men. the last supper. the crucifixion. you go through. you don t tell the whole story but you told snippets and put it altogether. how did this decision-making process come about? just so you know we were only slightly into the series of making the bible series. and roma said mark, this should be a big movie. this should be seen in community on the big screen. and we decided okay. had no idea how we would get it distributed. we started making it. and we knew the responsibility, sean, of that. we had done about 30 versions over a year just trying to get the feeling.