The latest to do so is director Ridley Scott (“Gladiator,” “Kingdom of Heaven”). But, as earlier movie offerings from this year - ranging from “Son of God” to “Noah” - suggest, some in Tinseltown are apparently dusting off their copies of the Scriptures and taking a second look. Post-Beatles irony and the baby-boomer generation’s antipathy toward authority and tradition may have put that calculation to rest for a few decades. In fact, from the silent era through the mid-1960s, it seemed a safe bet that selected slices of the best-selling volume of all time - or fictional spinoffs from it like “Ben-Hur” - translated to the screen on a large scale would yield box-office gold. ![]() ![]() NEW YORK (CNS) - Time was when the biblical extravaganza was a Hollywood staple.
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