ABOUT VERITY ENTERTAINMENT

Verity was originally founded in 2019. For many years prior, we had watched carefully, many different productions created around biblical stories with great excitement and hope because we believe film is a tremendous way to tell these stories. However unfortunately in each and every case we came away disappointed. When Hollywood would make a Bible film they always placed more value on making the narrative feel more plausible and exciting or promoting their own political agenda  and would change fundamental core elements of the story. For example the movie The Ten Commandments starring Charleton Heston as Moses is considered one of the all time greats however there were many crucial elements of the story they changed for example when Moses encountered the burning bush he was around the age of 40 in the movie and they made the encounter cause his hair to turn white, causing his wife to exclaim “Moses your hair!”, but in the biblical narrative, Moses was actually closer to the age of 80 when he encountered the burning bush. Consider the huge impact and implications of an 80 year old leader confronting Pharaoh and leading the Israelites out of Egypt  versus a fit tan 40 year old. This simply is infuriating to believers because it diminishes the greatness of the story and the power of God.

 

The flip side of this is Christian filmmakers who have a different problem when making bible films. Far too many seem intent on the goal of making Christianity cool and while they share a similar desire for maintaining the integrity of the scriptural account their interpretation is biased by this desire. One of the best examples is in the many portrayals of Sampson. Every movie that I have seen portrays Sampson as a buff Atlas like figure that looks cool and hip and seems to convey, “see Chrisitans aren’t pansies look at this guy.”

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However ask yourself if Sampson looked more like Arnold Schwarzenegger why would the Philistines be so puzzled at the source of his great strength? Duh, it's his muscles! This however is a crucial element of the story insomuch that they had to employ Delilah the chief villain in the story to trick Sampson into giving away his secret. So it was clear that this man had to have had a secret in order to do the things that he was able to do which left people in disbelief. 

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I would submit that it’s far more plausible that Sampson in fact was average build and size, maybe even below average because one that would explain the puzzlement on the part of the Philistines and two it is consistent with the kind of people God uses all throughout scripture. He uses the weak the dismissed the 80 year old leaders the Shepherd boy or a bunch of unschooled fishermen to do his amazing works.

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Out of this frustration was born a passion to tell the gospel story not only with historical and biblical accuracy but also with emotional integrity, capturing the feelings, settings and world in which the story happened as perfectly as we can. 

For example when you watch any bible film portraying the gospel they show Peter in the garden with a sword cutting off the ear of Malchus the servant of the high priest but in the next scene show him cowardly denying Jesus 3 times. 

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Does it not bother you to ask how Peter gets from literally trying to fight for Jesus’ life in the garden and quite literally willing to sacrifice his life to a few hours later denying him 3 times? It happened and all show it but no one has ever put together a plausible narrative and emotional journey to explain such a drastic and dramatic turn by Peter.

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This is why we began the painstaking process of creating an adaptation using all 4 gospel accounts of the story into a narrative script we named Petra. The script has been through numerous revisions and edits and has been in development since 2012 and obtained a copyright in 2019.

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Looking at scripture there are literally endless stories that have never been told or never told with the attention to historical detail, biblical accuracy and emotional authenticity. To see the projects that Verity currently has in development please visit our PROJECTS page.