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Article: Heaven's greats; DIVINE INTERVENTION: HOLLYWOOD'S 10 BIGGEST BIBLE BELTERS.(Features)
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- Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
- Article date:
- December 18, 1998
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HOLLYWOOD has always been fascinated by the Good Book. From the days of silent cinema, movie moguls have turned to The Bible for big- screen inspiration.
The result has been some of the best - and worst film stories ever told.
All these movies made as big an impact on the young Steven Spielberg as they did on most of us. When he got together with Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen to form their DreamWorks company, a Biblical epic was one of the first ideas they discussed.
Out of that early conversation grew the plan to create an animated version ...