Line #17 Trivia/TheBible1966


1	* ActingForTwo:
2	** Creator/PeterOToole as the Three Angels.
3	** Creator/JohnHuston as God, Noah and the narrator.
4	* AllStarCast: Creator/JohnHuston, [[Film/FromDuskTillDawn Michael Parks]], Creator/RichardHarris, Creator/FrancoNero, Creator/StephenBoyd, Creator/GeorgeCScott, Creator/AvaGardner, and Creator/PeterOToole.
5	* CastTheRunnerUp: Creator/JohnHuston originally wanted Creator/PeterOToole for Cain, but Creator/RichardHarris was already cast, so O'Toole became The Three Angels.
6	* DescendedCreator: Director Creator/JohnHuston as God and Noah.
7	* GenreKiller: This would be the last major studio produced Biblical epic, until Creator/{{Paramount}} released ''Film/KingDavid''.
8	* IronyAsSheIsCast: Creator/JohnHuston, Creator/GeorgeCScott and Creator/AvaGardner were atheists.
9	* OneBookAuthor: This was the only acting role of Ulla Bergryd (Eve) playing a prominent, named character in a film.[[note]]Her only other film role was a small role, credited only as "Tourist", in the 1968 Greek-Swedish film ''Epiheirisis Apollon'' (''Apollo Goes on Holiday''), though that didn't stop that film's makers to [[AdvertisedExtra promote her appearance]], some posters even billing her as "Ulla Bergryd (Eve from ''The Bible'')"[[/note]] She did not pursue a career in acting afterwards, instead becoming a professor at the School of Sociology of the University of Stockholm.
10	* ProductionNickname: When Creator/PeterOToole heard that Stephen Boyd and Creator/RichardHarris were also in the film, he told Creator/JohnHuston that he should call the film ''The Gospel According to Mick'', as Boyd and Harris were Irish and both O'Toole and Huston had Irish ancestry.
11	* RealitySubtext: In the film, Sarah's maid Hagar sleeps with Abraham (at Sarah's insistence, so that Abraham could have a son) and ends up pregnant with his child. In real life, Creator/JohnHuston had an affair with Zoe Sallis, the actress who plays Hagar, and she ended up pregnant with his son, actor Creator/DannyHuston.
12	* RomanceOnTheSet:
13	** Creator/JohnHuston had an affair with Zoe Sallis, the actress who plays Hagar, with resulted in the birth of his son, actor Creator/DannyHuston.
14	** Creator/AvaGardner and Creator/GeorgeCScott had a brief, but stormy affair during the making of this movie. At one point, he even kicked down the door of her hotel suite in a drunken rage.
15	* TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment: Filming ended in December 1964, but the film was not released until September 1966.
16	* StillbornFranchise: Dino [=De Laurentiis=] originally announced that this would be the first in a series of feature films based on the books of the Bible. However, as the film lost Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox $1.5 million, plans for any sequels were abandoned.
17	* UncreditedRole: Creator/OrsonWelles, Vittorio Bonicelli, Jonathan Griffin, Ivo Perilli, and Mario Soldati made uncredited contributions to the screenplay.
18	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
19	** Dino [=De Laurentiis=] first announced that this would be a portmanteau project, and that each book of the old testament would be directed by a major director. Creator/FedericoFellini, Creator/IngmarBergman, Creator/RobertBresson, Creator/LuchinoVisconti, and Creator/OrsonWelles were all approached, but in the end, this proved to be too ambitious and expensive. Instead, this just concentrates on the book of Genesis. (Welles was going to direct the Abraham segment and discussed a role with Creator/MichaelCaine. Creator/TrevorHoward was to play Abraham.)
20	** Creator/MichaelYork was considered for Adam.
21	** Creator/JohnHuston originally wanted Creator/CharlieChaplin to play Noah. Chaplin didn't like the idea of being in a film directed by someone else and turned it down. Creator/AlecGuinness was offered the role, but was unavailable.
22	** Creator/RichardBurton was originally considered for King Nimrod.
23	** While filming ''Film/TheAgonyAndTheEcstasy'' at Dinocitta in Rome in 1964, [=De Laurentiis=] offered Creator/CharltonHeston an unspecified role in this movie.
24	** [=De Laurentiis=] offered Creator/SpencerTracy the role of Abraham in 1962, but Tracy passed on it, as he was heavily involved on the lengthy filming schedule of ''Film/ItsAMadMadMadMadWorld''.
25	** Creator/RogerMoore claimed in his autobiography that he was considered for a role, but was turned down.
26	** One ''Magazine/{{Time\|Magazine}}'' [[http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,941897,00.html article]] made while the film was still shooting claimed that Eve was originally going to be played by "a languorous Italian brunette" (since the film was an American-Italian co-production), but De Laurentiis put on an international newspaper straw poll to find out whether people thought of Eve as blonde or dark, and the result declared that "they could not see how the mother of mankind could have come from any place east of Sweden," and so Swedish Ulla Bergryd was cast.
27	** Huston wanted Music/IgorStravinsky to score the film. For unspecified reasons, this was never done.
28	** Huston hired Music/EnnioMorricone to write the score, but before he'd finished he was fired by the producers, who wanted a composer with more marquee value and replaced him with Toshiro Mayuzumi. A couple of Morricone's cues were used in the film anyway (albeit uncredited), and he would later reuse the material in other projects.

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