Technically, everybody’s known about this since late last year (see, for example, Daniel Radosh‘s New Yorker feature on Bible publishing), but Thomas Nelson made it official yesterday by issuing a press release for the October release of The Word of Promise, a complete audiobook recording of the New Testament with an all-star cast that includes Jim Caviezel (above) as Jesus (reprising, of course, his role from The Passion of the Christ). Which is all fine and dandy, but I’m a lot more impressed that they got Terence Stamp to play God.* Other cast members in the 25-hour production include Academy Award winners Richard Dreyfuss, Louis Gossett, Jr., and Marisa Tomei as Mary Magdalene; Nelson currently provides an audio trailer featuring excerpts from their performances along with many others.
*Stamp is already on board to reprise the role for the eventual recording of the Old Testament, so maybe we’ll get a chance to hear him say, “Come and kneel before God!” OK, probably not.