The Bible in film made the first attempt to produce a series of films based on the entire Bible from Genesis to Revelation. "", based largely on the book of Genesis, was to have been the first of these films, but financial challenges cancelled further films. Forty-seven years later, Hearst Corporation and producers Roma Downey and Mark Burnett created their own reimagining of the story via a TV miniseries, "The Bible", thus finally fulfilling DeLaurentiis' original 1966 vision. The box office failure "King David", was released in 1985. The New Testament was less frequently turned into major motion pictures. Unlike the Old Testament, the
Lot in Sodom with him. Lot refuses; then the angel tells him to escape the city with his wife and daughter. Sodom is then destroyed by flames; Lot's wife is turned to a pillar of salt for having looked back. All intertitles are quotes from the Bible. Lot in Sodom Lot in Sodom is a 1933 short silent experimental film, based on the Biblical tale of the city of Sodom and Gomorrah. It was directed by James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber. The movie uses experimental techniques, avant-garde imagery and strong allusions to sexuality, especially homosexuality. Louis Siegel was the sound composer, according