Even if they add a bunch of stuff to the original material, which they probably will for the sake of movie storytelling, i don’t think it’ll be bad press for God. As long as they don’t bastardize the story and have David cursing God and saying God isn’t real…

Then i don’t see this as a negative movie. If the movie sucks, all people will say, is that this is a sucky movie, not… God sucks, because this movie sucks. And if this movie does well, then people mnight be turned on to read the actual story from the bible.

I do agree though, the David vs. Goliath story, although epic in nature, was extremely brief. There’s so much more to David’s story than that tiny part.

And many of the Biblical epics of the 60s-70s did a lot of them including 5 Versions of Samson and Delilah, Esther and the King, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Adam and Eve, Noah’s Ark, Sodom and Gomorrah, TV’s TNT Bible Series, Prince of Egypt, The Ten Commandments.

And that’s just Old Testament. Last Temptation of Christ, Passion of the Christ, Jesus Christ Superstar, Gospel of John, Nativity Story, Jesus of Nazereth, King of Kings.

Then there are hordes of Fictional offshoots that are biblical in nature such as Ben Hur, The Left Behind Series, and many others.

David and Goliath is one of the few that hasn’t been done to death – as long as we don’t count Veggie Tales.

I hardly think this is a bad thing, nor is it diluting/discrediting your faith to the point of myth to see a theatrical adaptation of one of the many Biblical adventures worthy of an adventure.

I agree with everyone else that David and Goliath is not the best story to use. To make a full length film they would either have to add more to the story or go deeper into the political side of the Soul Vs. David story. Much better stories would Gideon or Sampson. Case in point:

-Gideon: While israel is under siege one man by the name of Gideon receives the divine command to strike back. Against all odds, Gideon defeats the invading armies only to rise up as a new dictator.

-Sampson: Given the gift of unparalleled strength Sampson rises up as champion to defeat the invading armies of the Philistines. However, plagued by alcoholism and womanizing Sampson is finally taken captive by the philistines and has his eyes gouged out. Left in prison, Sampson realizes his mistakes and rises up one last time.

There is a lot more action opportunities here than in David and Goliath.

David, slings a rock at a giants head and knocks him down and then the movie ends? Are they going to show the rest of his life where drama gets wicked crazy? Because if they just show up until he kills Goliath, i guess that could be interesting, but they’d have to write up a bunch of epic bs to fill up this 2 hours before the showdown. Because there’s almost nothing written about David before the showdown with Goliath other than he was the youngest or something of brothers, God chose him to be King and he herded sheep.