After the recent UK floods, a forthcoming feature film of Noah and the Ark appears to be a timely subject. The tale is be transferred to the big screen by Darren Aronofsky, the writer/director/producer behind Requiem for a Dream (2000), The Fountain (2006) and Black Swan (2010), with Russell Crowe starring in the title role.
The Daily Express has used the weather as a starting point to discuss Aronofsky’s new take on the story and to debate is historical credibility, and has interviewed Dr Chris Deacy, Reader in Applied Theology from the Department of Religious Studies, alongside Oxford academic and presenter of the BBC4 series A History of Christianity, Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch, and the British Museum’s Dr Irving Finkel.
‘Whatever Aronofsky does is going to offend somebody,’ explains Chris in the article. ‘Either it will be: he is embellishing the Noah story; or others will say: well this is a fictional story, why go to all this effort for something that should not be seen as anything other than imaginative or prehistoric or mythology?’
To read the full article, please see the Express webpage here:
www.express.co.uk/entertainment/films/461331/Dr-Finkel-s-exploration-into-biblical-tale-Noah