And then there was camera and then action and somehow the whole thing got out of hand. At least that's the way it happened for Clive Walton and Marvin Handelman, two fledgling filmmakers who decided to use their first major Hollywood break to create a big-budget Bible epic for the 90s. Their story is the story of Hollywood dreams created and destroyed, of how a motion picture is written, produced and marketed with the blood and sweat of its makers. It is a story of how a production survives when Brando drops out, when the actress who plays Eve turns out to have a body-length tattoo, when the ark turns out to be too big for the soundstage. It gets worse.
Budgets go down in flames while burning bushes merely sputter.
Apostles are misnumbered and God trips on acid. An unholy alliance with Coca-Cola even precipitates a modern revision of the Ten Commandments. Back to the homepage.