The Chosen | – Chosen director reacts to Episode Two, Season 2


Dallas breaks down an emotional and mysterious episode and explains why this might be his most personal episode yet.

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The Chosen WHY A TV SERIES ABOUT JESUS? We've been making movies for some of the biggest studios in Hollywood for 20 years. But a subject this important shouldn't be entrusted to Hollywood. It needs to be made by us. Isaiah 43:19 says, "Behold, I am doing a new thing..." The Chosen is a new thing. * How it was financed is new: We're the #1 highest crowd-funded media project of all time -- over $10 million from over 19,000 people. * The content is new: We're the first-ever multi-season show about the life of Christ. * The way to watch it is new: We're the first show to have our own app that connects directly to your streaming devices. No subscription needed. Just search "The Chosen" where you get apps and download to your phone. * How it's reaching the world is new: The show is free, but by "paying it forward," you help ensure people around the world can see it -- we're currently in every country. Welcome to a new thing!

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  1. I cannot wait for ep 4! I watch on the app so I can watch over and over on my break at work. Love them all. Personalities unfolding is captivating. And then there’s Jesus. So reassuring when he speaks. Such authority but such compassion. Jonathan nails it.

  2. Dallas' commentary on the episodes adds so much to the entire experience..I anticipate each one..there is a holiness interwoven in all of it. I have to say..I know I will be totally wrecked by how this comes together in the "end". Thank you. May all who are involved in the making of The Chosen be greatly blessed.

  3. Yes….Philip "truth bombs"! Perfect! Yoshi and Austin did an outstanding job in their first episodes. Can't wait to see more! The ending scene was so beautiful! Dallas, you're a rock star!

  4. I think all Believers come to a place in their walk where things don't happen the way we planned. Satan wants to destroy our faith but Jesus can use this trial to make us mature spiritually. If Christ is my anchor & not my dreams I will not be set adrift when things fall through. I learned this the hard way, w/ a lot of tears & heartache.

  5. This issue about an unbroken creation is well an eternal longing an instinct that if we are careful and everyone does what is correct things will be ok…Then things do not work out …touches other way things should be and the way things are…a skewed construct or a broken world …The mission is to deal with it…and still build a life that is a resemblance of heaven…The church has a huge habit of saying meet Jesus and fix the world…The reality is we will learn to deal with the world and with good fortune have brief moments of joy in a world that will be skewed until God fixes it …The reality is we are in a boat in a storm and although we are no longer in the ocean drowning we are still more near the water than heaven…At less risk but still at risk…Like survivors of the titanic we are still wet still cold and searching for those who are willing to slightly improve their situation of being in the water…

  6. Thank you for the show. I've been trying to get my family to see it. My aunt told me yesterday that she and her family are catching up on Season 1. She told me her foster kids are getting into it, and one of them is starting to read the Bible again.

  7. We love them all, but my favorite is still the scene with John 3-16, When Nicodemus takes the hand of Jesus and quotes the scripture "…kiss The Son…" this 6' 3" guy blubbers like a little one. Thanks Dallas and we understand why ALL of them are your favorite. You're all so talented.

  8. Episode 3 was also really good. It's a great example of how the Early Church and present day churches, composed of men, bickered and argued and even almost came to blows. Then Jesus walks in, after a hard days work, healing people all day, exhausted. Mary runs and cleans his feet. The only one that did. The disciples like present day church leaders just stood there doing nothing feeling ashamed. I turned to my wife and said, "I guess nothing ever changes".

  9. Favorite scene is when John as he writes, turns and looks out the window, on a stormy thundering night and looks at………us! Two thousand years later and we are pulled into the story!

  10. Many of us are at this place….passion and promises crushed..for years walking with Jesus. As Jesus spoke that He saw Nathaniel under the tree…my precious Lord Jesus reminded me…He created me..He knows me in intimacy…all the crushed passion and promised visions? Must die…dead bones…only my Lord Jesus can ressurect who He has called and prepared me to be. I in Him. He in and through me…waiting. If I never do anything more? He loves me. Recieves me in all I am not in this limited realm. I am comforted. He knew…He knows

  11. Asking with all due respect, do the guys' tunics need to be so short? It doesn't seem to fit with the propriety of the day. The women are naturally covered up, but I wonder if it would be more authentic for the tunics to be a bit longer. This is the best picture of the life of Jesus and the disciples I have ever seen! I can't help thinking this is one of the ways the "gospel will be preached to all nations, then the end will come."

  12. I saw a picture of Jonathan Roumie on a jet – he was wearing a "skull" ring. That is disturbing. 1 Thess. 5:22 "Stay away from every appearance of evil." Skulls are "death". Jesus is LIFE! I pray for all the folks involved in this awesome series. You can feel God's hand on it. Please be careful.

  13. As for corn, and I write this as the author of a book on the history of corn (Midwest Maize), the word doesn't mean what most Americans think. "Corn" simply means "dominant cereal grain." When the Americas were discovered, Europeans were introduced to maize, which is where the Spanish got the word maiz. Among non-Spanish Europeans, the grain was long referred to as "Indian corn" — the dominant grain of the Indians — thought it was also occasionally called Virginia wheat, since wheat was the corn of England, and so this made sense to British settlers in Virginia. As late as 1896, corn meal still appeared in American cookbooks as Indian meal. It was pretty much in the 1900s that maize became corn in the U.S. and Canada — but the U.S. and Canada are the ONLY places in the world that "corn" always means "maize." One might say that botanically grain is a vegetable (vs. animal or mineral), but in the U.S., maize is considered both a vegetable and a grain. But if anyone challenges you, you can fall back on "it's not an animal or mineral, therefore it's a vegetable," — but "corn" would most likely have been barley at that time. (Wheat was being grown in Egypt, but barley was more common in Israel.)

  14. I loved this whole episode! Nathaniel's arc is so good, I almost wish you could have dragged it out over more episodes like you did with the other disciples in Season 1. The settings and lighting were so beautiful, especially the fig tree and then the ending.
    And more scenes with Matthew! The scene where he draws the circle on the ground got me so hard. I feel "outside the circle" all the time. I love all the character dynamics and tension, but whenever someone is mean to Matthew I want to hug him. At least Phillip and Mary Magdalene being nice, and I'm so looking forward to the episode where Jesus prepares the Sermon on the Mount with him!

  15. Dallas, just know that we believe you never speak too much!! ;), the Holy Spirit works in you. It is so well done, we cannot wait to see more of how you and the team will unfold the story so realistically which connects so greatly with real life. We count the days each time to discover the new episode. Please take care of yourself and your family while you work so hard on getting this to the world, to be able to keep going the years ahead. We are here with you, but above all so is God!

  16. Bible References: Nathanael's story in the Bible can be found in Matthew 10:3; Mark 3:18; Luke 6:14; John 1:45-49, 21:2; and Acts 1:13. Hometown: Nathanael was from Cana in

  17. Dallas there are many debates on The Holly Bible. I disagree with most of them as someone who as you wrote does not put "Our" God in a box.
    Speak from your heart listen to it as The Lord speaks to You. Hold on to The Faith Brother stop trying to please us! There is only One you need to please!

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