I have contact with a lot of religious people and they are tuned out to Hollywood because they have seen Hollywood movies REPEATEDLY botch and misrepresent their beliefs.

What Hollywood needs are screenwriters who can articulate points of faith and make them appealing to the masses.

LOVE Luke Wilson. May go see this film, just because he's in it, though the story doesn't sound real good.

As for biblic epics becoming passe. Well, I think the Joker (1989) says it best, "Wait'll they get a load of me..."

Good talent brings stories alive. Even when many scoff at stories in the bible, if they ever were to investigate them for themselves I think they would find they some VERY COOL life lessons in them, be ye of the faith or not.

- E.C. Henry from Bonney Lake, WA

I think it's a no-brainer why religious films are not in demand (and let's be clear, this complaint is more about the lack of Christian films than any other religion): with thousands of Christian sects alone which don't agree with each other out there, what studio is going to lay money down on such a risky bet?

I think this is especially true in the world that's falling apart around us - people want new ideas, new stories, not the old paradigms that promise the same tired solutions (submit to ___) and don't deliver. This applies even to stories of escape.

As you've illustrated, a film doesn't really need to be about religion to demonstrate some of the universal lessons and feelings humans shared even before we made up systems of belief to organize them.

Luzid said, "I think it's a no-brainer why religious films are not in demand (and let's be clear, this complaint is more about the lack of Christian films than any other religion): with thousands of Christian sects alone which don't agree with each other out there, what studio is going to lay money down on such a risky bet?"

I think that's spot on. I mean New Line produced The Nativity Story (2006) for a reported $35M and only generated $37.6M in domestic box office. If you figure in another $8.7M international and ancillary revenues, maybe, just maybe the movie broke even. With that as the most recent example of how an overtly 'Christian' movie fares, what's the motivation for the studios to reach out to that audience?

I used to have this discussion with my father a lot: he argued that Hollywood was anti-religion; I countered that Hollywood is not anti-religion, it's pro-money.