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Over its four — soon to be five — seasons, The Chosen has taken scripture from the Bible and adapted it for an on-screen series then distributed by Prime Video. At the head of the charge is Dallas Jenkins who serves not only as the show’s creator but also its director and co-writer. For the most part, audiences have reacted positively to how Jenkins and the rest of the creative team have moved from verse to script, but there have been a few points along the way where the on-screen telling has been called into question.
Speaking with Meridian Magazine, Jenkins was happy to give his response to these criticisms,
“Throughout history, there have been movies and television shows about historical figures, and I don’t believe that just because the Bible is the current written form of what took place in the first century, it means that we can’t then portray anything else from the first century.”
Breaking down how the writers pick what to add, he explained that the Bible always serves as the foundation of the episode, adding,
“In this show, we start with the Bible as our primary source of truth and inspiration. We start with the stories of the Bible as our benchmarks for what we are going to be telling, but then we work our way backwards. The gospels weren’t intended to be a record of everything Jesus said or did. The gospel never shows Jesus saying hello, but we know that he must have, though we don’t see it in the Bible. We use cultural context such as life would have been like back then. We use historical context—what they would have done at key events like a wedding or a funeral, or a crucifixion even, and then we use human imagination and we recognize the truth that these were human beings, 2000 years ago, and humanity has been the same for 2,000 years as it has been today.”
- Release Date
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April 21, 2019
- Network
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Prime Video, VidAngel, Angel Studios, TheChosen.tv
- Directors
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Dallas Jenkins
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Elizabeth Tabish
Mary Magdalene / Lillith
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Jonathan Roumie
Jesus of Nazareth
Source: Meridian Magazine
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