Coming at You Next in 3-D… God!

This was the original intention, the master plan, if you will.  When God created the heavens and the earth and moved over the face of the darkness and brought forth light, he must certainly have known that thousands and thousands (not sure what the latest count is by Christian standards) of years later, some guy named James Cameron would make a movie that would catapult the world of cinema into the realm of 3-D.

That was the idea, right?  To have Paramount Pictures and Cary Granat, the co-founder of Walden Media, create a 3-D film about Genesis called IN THE BEGINNING.  Thus comes word from Deadline Hollywood of such a project, and, surely, it is good.  It’s been a blessed course for Paramount, Granat, and screenwriter John Fusco, who is moving up from writing about Billy the Kid in YOUNG GUNS and YOUNG GUNS II to penning the story of creation.  THE SEEKER: THE DARK IS RISING helmer David Cunningham is taking the directorial reigns on this one, and not even a film about the creation can muster up enough cynicism to claim THE SEEKER was a blessed film.  Far from it.

The budget for IN THE BEGINNING will be roughly $30 million, so don’t expect all kinds of CG talking animals and in-your-face explosions.  So, really, why 3-D?  If you’re not going to have Adam wielding a flaming sword to fend off the giant, Devil snake from blowing up the tree of knowledge, what the purpose of 3-D?  To get closer to God?  Surely you jest.

Paramount will serve as distributor.