{"id":7691,"date":"2018-01-07T20:42:28","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T01:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/?p=7691"},"modified":"2018-01-07T20:42:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T01:42:28","slug":"biblical-superhero-samson-coming-theater-near-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2018\/01\/biblical-superhero-samson-coming-theater-near-february.html","title":{"rendered":"Biblical superhero &#8220;Samson&#8221; coming to a theater near you in February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s this week&#8217;s dispatch from the crossroads of faith and culture:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Samson Teaser Trailer (Official) 2018\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5TXaC3GjuJo?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><strong>Move over Marvel Universe:<\/strong> Taylor James, recently seen as a military messenger from Atlantis in Zack Snyder&#8217;s <em>Justice League<\/em> film, stars as <em><strong>Samson<\/strong><\/em>, perhaps the word&#8217;s first superhero. The action-packed biblical epic also stars Billy Zane, Rutger Hauer, Jackson Rathbone and Caitlin Leahy, The film, which opens nationwide on February 16, also features Lindsay Wagner who gained fame playing the TV superhero <em>The Bionic Woman<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who may not know the Samson story as found in The Bible, it&#8217;s the tale of a hero chosen by God whose supernatural strength and impulsive decisions quickly pit him against the oppressive Philistine empire.<\/p>\n<p><em>Samson<\/em> was filmed on location in South Africa and is a production of Pure Flix (<em>The Case for Christ, God\u2019s Not Dead<\/em>).<\/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&#8217;s this week&#8217;s dispatch from the crossroads of faith and culture: Move over Marvel Universe: Taylor James, recently seen as a military messenger from Atlantis in Zack Snyder&#8217;s Justice League film, stars as Samson, perhaps the word&#8217;s first superhero. The action-packed biblical epic also stars Billy Zane, Rutger Hauer, Jackson Rathbone and Caitlin Leahy, The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,21,24,1],"tags":[9262,3679,9261,9263,9259,9258,9260,9257,9256],"class_list":["post-7691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-judaism","category-movies","category-uncategorized","tag-caitlin-leahy","tag-gods-not-dead","tag-jackson-rathbone","tag-lindsay-wagner","tag-lly-zane","tag-pure-flix-the-case-for-christ","tag-rutger-hauer","tag-samson","tag-taylor-james"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Biblical superhero &quot;Samson&quot; coming to a theater near you in February<\/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\/2018\/01\/biblical-superhero-samson-coming-theater-near-february.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Biblical superhero &quot;Samson&quot; coming to a theater near you in February\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here&#8217;s this week&#8217;s dispatch from the crossroads of faith and culture: Move over Marvel Universe: Taylor James, recently seen as a military messenger from Atlantis in Zack Snyder&#8217;s Justice League film, stars as Samson, perhaps the word&#8217;s first superhero. 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