“The Final Supper” producer Michael Scott (“God’s Not Useless”) guarantees the movie lets “you stroll alongside Jesus.”
“You get to expertise the dynamic between Judas and Peter,” provides Scott.
Director Mauro Borellia (“Mindcage,” “WarHunt”), was impressed to make this film after seeing a Da Vinci portray of the Final Supper and pondering how properly we perceive it.
Individuals hear these phrases, ‘That is my Physique,’ and it’s such an essential second. However they don’t have many photographs to attach [to it]. So I stated, ‘I need to develop that…’
Judas is made extra seen than a last-minute deceiver and traitor in “The Final Supper.”
“[Judas] was a man that was taken by Devil and was not sturdy sufficient to step out from that. But additionally, he was a part of a divine prophecy. So he’s wanted.”
The movie additionally options the music of trustworthy hitmaker, Chris Tomlin, who provides his ideas on the movie.
“Jesus cherished him [Judas] regardless that he knew he’d betray him, and I simply assume individuals are going to search out that there’s one thing highly effective about seeing it dropped at life this manner.”
“This film is so wealthy in theology,” says Pastor Luke Barnet of Dream Metropolis Church in Phoenix. “I’m so excited as a result of the producers of this film have taken particular care to ensure to guard the integrity of the gospel story. You’re going to be taught issues from this film you’ve by no means realized earlier than.”
Tomlin was approached by Borelli, who confirmed Tomlin an early minimize of the movie. Tomlin was struck:
“It’s so fantastically achieved, and it’s so biblically proper on the cash,” says Tomlin. “It simply brings God’s phrase to life, and it’s not Hollywood.”
Tomlin, in flip, allowed Borelli to listen to a brand new, unreleased single he had simply written, “No Better Love,” primarily based on John 15:13. Borelli says he immediately knew “No Better Love” was the heaven-sent theme tune for “The Final Supper.”
The a number of number-one musical artist signed on with “The Final Supper” as an government producer and recounts:
“I’d simply written this brand-new tune at a writing retreat with songwriters Tyler Hubbard, Corey Crowder, and Matt Jenkins. And I hadn’t even performed it for anybody but. It’s referred to as “No Better Love” and it’s impressed by the verse John 15:13 which says, ‘Better love has nobody than this, that one lay down his life for one’s pals.’ When the movie staff heard it, everybody stated, ‘That’s the tune!”…It was like I’d watched the film and written the tune.”
“The Final Supper” solid consists of James Ward as Jesus (“Septembers of Shiraz,” “His Darkish Supplies”), Robert Knepper at Judas (“Jail Break,” “Transporter 3”) and James Oliver Wheatley (“Fortunes of Warfare”, “The Misplaced Pirate Kingdom”) as Peter.
The screenplay is written by John Collins (“Below the Stadium Lights”).
Tomlin can be concerned in one other documentary bringing the religion of historic Christians to life. Produced by the studio Undeceptions, “The First Hymn” appears becoming for the Christ-inspired singer in Tomlin.
“The First Hymn” relies on a scrap of writing that had been locked away in a vault at Oxford. Tomlin was proven the lyrics that date from 200 AD, initially present in Egypt, and added a brand new melody to the message.
Tomlin additionally plans a spring and summer season tour together with a Good Friday live performance on April 18 at Nashville’s Bridgestone Area, a present at Crimson Rocks close to Denver, and three performances at New York Metropolis’s Central Park.
With a musical profession dedicated to encounters with the God of the Gospels, Tomlin says of the “The Final Supper”:
“Jesus invitations you to the desk. You don’t should be good.”
Borelli provides to that time.
“Peter and Judas…two those who at a sure level attain a second the place their path could be misplaced. However one goes the incorrect path and doesn’t discover a solution to come out from that–that’s Judas–and the opposite one finds a solution to step out. So there may be hope…We’re all human beings and we are able to all fail, however we have now to maintain our religion burning and [not] lose hope.”
Shot solely in Morocco, “The Final Supper” shows the tensions skilled by the apostles, with Jesus’ sacrificial love highlighted in direction of Judas, Peter, and different witnesses, testing man’s belief within the Lord.
The independently-produced film was launched nationwide March 14 and grossed almost $3 million in its opening body.
Extra data on “The Final Supper” could be discovered on the movie’s official website.