Ever since “The Chosen,” faith-based properties are to not be trifled with. Amazon and different streamers are placing large cash and manufacturing values behind probably the most epic of Biblical tales, and the fruits of that labor are lastly paying off.
Amazon on Tuesday, January 28 launched the primary trailer for the sequence “Home of David,” a sweeping Biblical saga about David vs. Goliath from director Jon Erwin, who made field workplace financial institution with faith-based hits “I Can Solely Think about” and “Jesus Revolution.” “Home of David” is the primary venture as a part of a partnership introduced in Jan. 2024 between Amazon Prime Video and Erwin’s new firm The Marvel Mission to supply tasks for a faith-forward viewers.
“Home of David” has the scope and ambition of one thing like “Recreation of Thrones” or Prime Video’s personal “Lord of the Rings” sequence “The Rings of Energy.” It exhibits David, the long run King of Israel, brandishing the one stone in his slingshot that may slay the enormous Goliath and level the dominion again within the route of God. However the sequence covers David’s origin story and the way he finds his religion.
Michael Iskander (Tony-winning musical “Kimberly Akimbo”) stars as David, with Iskander being solid after a four-month, worldwide casting search. It additionally stars Ali Suliman as King Saul, Ayelet Zurer as Saul’s trusted spouse Queen Ahinoam, Stephen Lang as Samuel, and Martyn Ford as Goliath.
Erwin directed and wrote “Home of David” alongside Jon Gunn (“Unusual Angels”) and the sequence relies on an concept by Erwin — additionally the Bible. Dallas Jenkins, the creator and producer-director of “The Chosen,” is a shareholder and particular advisor to Marvel Mission.
Erwin beforehand informed IndieWire whereas he was in manufacturing on the present that the concept of the “faith-based” style wants a little bit of a rebrand to as an alternative simply be “inspirational.” His firm’s imaginative and prescient is to create a “values-based ecosystem,” with “content material that restores religion and advances issues which are price believing in,” and his objective is that Marvel Mission can develop into synonymous with inspirational content material in the way in which Blumhouse is with the horror style.
“That is an viewers that’s unseen and underserved, and we will infuse these values in all types of content material and all types of style,” Erwin stated. “There’s a variety of content material that uplifts and evokes and restores religion in issues which are price believing in.”
“Home of David” debuts on Amazon Prime Video on February 27. Watch the primary trailer under.