One of the Bible’s Greatest Stories Is About to Overwhelm Hollywood
From Jesus to Luke, Jim Caviezel is using the big screen to share the New Testament.
The actor who played Jesus in Passion of the Christ will take on the doctor scribe in Paul Apostle of Christ, due out Easter. James Faulkner (DaVinci’s Demons, Downton Abby), will play the titular character.
According to Deadline:
The story follows Paul (Faulkner), who suffers alone in a Roman prison, awaiting his execution under Emperor Nero. Mauritius (Olivier Martinez), the ambitious prison prefect, can hardly see what threat this broken man poses. Once he was Saul of Tarsus, the high-ranking and brutal killer of Christians. Now his faith rattles Rome. At great risk, Luke the Physician (Caviezel) visits the aged Paul to comfort and tend to him—and to question, to transcribe and to smuggle out Paul’s letters to the growing community of believers. Amid Nero’s inhuman persecution, these men and women will spread the gospel of Jesus Christ and change the world.
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