Would it be possible to make a movie based on the complete Bible? Nothing should be left out. For this thread let’s use the King James bible. How long would this movie have to be? What would a reasonable amount be for the budget? Who should direct the film? Who should star as who? How long would it take to film the bible? Would it have to get an NC-17 rating? Who should write the script?
The entire Bible?! That would take years just to plan, not to mention build sets, cast, etc. And how exactly would you film the books of just prophecy? The very thought of someone doing something like this makes my head hurt.
-brianjedi
Well, it’d have to get an NC-17 rating if they filmed all the begats.
Hahaha! 
I found that there is one movie about the Bible, but it’s Old Testament, and only the “highlights.” Maybe they could build onto this one. A mini series might be made. But I imagine boring parts…
See http://www.getvcds.com/vcd/bible.shtml
Well, John Huston’s “The Bible”* was a loooong movie, and it barely covered the highlights of the Book of Genesis. So, Lord knows how long a movie of the whole thing would take.
- a classic review of the movie said, “the book was better.”
Somehow, I can see that the movie is going to get bogged down a lot somewhere in late Exodus and early Leviticus.
:: pictures 40 days of God telling Moses on the mountain – "This is how you make the Ark… This is how you make the Menorah… This is how you make the Tabernacle… This is how you offer a burnt-offering… This is how you offer a peace-offering… This is how you adjudicate a case of one person’s bull goring another… This is how you… ::
Yep, got a blockbuster there… 
Zev Steinhardt
…but think of the peppy song-and-dance numbers for the Psalms…
Yeah, all 150 of 'em!
I’m getting a refill on popcorn and Coke at Numbers.
That’s funny, zev. That’s where I got bogged down reading the book, myself
They’d have to make the book of Leviticus just a tad more dramatic (or at least humorous) to keep the audience awake.
F’rinstance, during the pronouncement of “Thou shalt not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk”, they show a guy chowing down on a milk-boiled baby goat and thn, as the commandment is sponek, he stops in mid-chew and looks around uncomfortably at all the Israelites that have turned to stare at him.
(grr … “then, as the commandment is spoken” ! I hate not being able to edit my own posts.)
If I ever learn how to write screenplays (and find the time to devote to it), I’m going to write a two-hour movie based on eighteen verses.
I’ll keep you posted as events warrant.
You’ll never get all those sex scenes past the censors.