I’m reading the new book, Noah: The Real Story, my interest piqued on the topic in large part due to all the chatter about the upcoming movie, Noah, opening March 28.

The movie has a blockbuster budget of $130 million and features a stellar cast: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Anthony Hopkins, and Emma Watson.

Very few people have read the script or seen the movie, but the book I’m reading includes a summary by movie critic Brian Godawa of a script he read in the fall of 2013.

Potential spoiler alert…

So in that version of the script there was an infanticide element. Quoting from the book:

As for you, be fruitful and multiply; Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it. ~ Genesis 9:7, New American Standard version, God instructing Noah after the Great Flood [Print via vicnet.net.au]

The whole thing has been overwhelming because I didn’t realize you could love something so much, and I know people always say that but I love him so much it hurts…and it’s an interesting feeling to have because I never felt that before. He’s getting to that place where he’s smiling and he’s almost ready […]

In Genesis 1:28 God commanded Adam and Eve: “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.” After the flood, when all humans had been wiped off the face of the earth except Noah and his family, God commanded he and his sons in Genesis 9:1: “Be fruitful and increase in number […]