{"id":6932,"date":"2016-02-04T15:24:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T20:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/?p=6932"},"modified":"2016-02-06T08:56:47","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T13:56:47","slug":"risen-star-joseph-fiennes-meets-pope-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2016\/02\/risen-star-joseph-fiennes-meets-pope-francis.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Risen&#8221; star Joseph Fiennes meets Pope Francis (u"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s today\u2019s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"RISEN - Official Trailer #2 - Now Playing!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xxgm2TJr2m0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454607197983_16137\" class=\"yiv4240730091p1\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454607197983_16007\"><strong><em>Luther<\/em> meets the Pope.<\/strong> Joseph Fiennes, who played <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Protestant_Reformation\">Protestant Reformation<\/a> initiator Martin Luther in a 2003 biopic,\u00a0 met Pope Francis in Vatican City yesterday. Fiennes is in the city with actress Mario Botto and the producers of Sony Pictures\u2019 upcoming faith-themed film<strong><em> Risen<\/em><\/strong> which opens nationwide in U.S. theaters on February 19th. \u00a0The film is being screened at the Vatican today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454607197983_16139\">The epic tells the story of Resurrection through the eyes of Clavius (Joseph Fiennes), a non-believing Roman Military official determined to find Jesus&#8217; missing body in order to disprove the rumors of a risen Messiah and prevent an uprising in Jerusalem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454607197983_16118\" class=\"yiv4240730091p1\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454607197983_16120\">AFFIRM Films (a Sony Pictures Entertainment company) originally acquired worldwide rights from LD Entertainment on Risen and will release the film in association with Columbia Pictures and LD Entertainment.\u00a0 Starring Fiennes (<i id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454607197983_16135\">Shakespeare in Love, Luther<\/i>), Tom Felton (<i id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454607197983_16309\">Harry Potter<\/i>), Peter Firth (\u201cSpooks\u201d) and Cliff Curtis (<i id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454607197983_16133\">Live Free or Die Hard<\/i>), and Maria Botto, and directed by Kevin Reynolds (<i id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454607197983_16307\">Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves<\/i>), the action drama will be released in theaters nationwide on Friday, February 19, 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454607197983_16124\" class=\"yiv4240730091p1\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454607197983_16123\"><em>Risen<\/em>\u2019s screenplay is by Kevin Reynolds and Paul Aiello from a story by Paul Aiello. It is produced by Mickey Liddell (<i>The Grey<\/i>), Patrick Aiello (<i id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454607197983_16130\">As Above, So Below<\/i>), and Pete Shilaimon (<i id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454607197983_16122\">In Secret<\/i>), and executive produced by Robert Huberman and Scott Holroyd. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Encourage one another and build each other up \u2013 <\/em><strong>1 Thessalonians 5:11<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s today\u2019s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Luther meets the Pope. Joseph Fiennes, who played Protestant Reformation initiator Martin Luther in a 2003 biopic,\u00a0 met Pope Francis in Vatican City yesterday. Fiennes is in the city with actress Mario Botto and the producers of Sony Pictures\u2019 upcoming faith-themed film Risen which&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1085,15,24,4088],"tags":[8935,35,8937,8941,468,8943,8944,8419,8942,8945,8946,8948,8940,8936,8949,8950,8938,8947,8939],"class_list":["post-6932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-forgiveness","category-history","category-movies","category-pope-francis","tag-risen-star-joseph-fiennes-meets-pop-francis","tag-1-thessalonians-511","tag-affirm-films-a-sony-pictures-entertainment-company","tag-cliff-curtis-live-free-or-die-hard","tag-columbia-pictures","tag-kevin-reynolds-robin-hood-prince-of-thieves","tag-kevin-reynolds-and-paul-aiello","tag-ld-entertainment","tag-maria-botto","tag-mickey-liddell-the-grey","tag-patrick-aiello-as-above","tag-pete-shilaimon-in-secret","tag-peter-firth-spooks","tag-protestant-reformation-initiator-martin-luther","tag-robert-huberman","tag-scott-holroyd","tag-shakespeare-in-love","tag-so-below","tag-tom-felton-harry-potter"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Risen&quot; star Joseph Fiennes meets Pope Francis (u<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2016\/02\/risen-star-joseph-fiennes-meets-pope-francis.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&quot;Risen&quot; star Joseph Fiennes meets Pope Francis (u\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here\u2019s today\u2019s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 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