24 Oct 2014 12:22 PM PDT
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Gulfstream Picutres will be co-financing, along with Warner Bros., a film based on a recently published book “David: The Divided Heart’ by Rabbi David Wolpe. Nick Schoenfeld will turn the story into a script and Owen Stanley is Executive Producing the film. Gulfstream producers are Mike Karz and Bill Bindley. Tracking Board first reported this project.
“David is the most complex hero and anti-hero in the Bible,” Wolpe elaborates. “He’s a man who was a warrior, a prodigy, a poet, a king who united the nation and a man close to God who sins. I cannot imagine a more cinematic figure from the Bible.”
Rabbi Wolpe, Los Angeles’ Sinai Temple, where Karz attends learned of the book when Wolpe mentioned it to him. Wolpe has written several religious books, including “Why Faith Matters” and this book on King David. Wolpe claims that actor Kirk Douglas recently sent the book to all members of the congregation.
Warner Bros. and Gulfstream are not the only ones producing a film based on the life of King David, however. Fox studios announced in July that Chernin Entertainment and Ridley Scott were developing a film focusing on the battle between David and Goliath. It will be a the second film developed by Fox who is releasing in Decmeber 2014 “Exodous: Gods and Kings” starring Christian Bale.