‘Book of Clarence’ Director Jeymes Samuel Wants to Do ‘The Ten Commandments’

The BAFTA-winning writer-director names his dream cast and opens up about his decades-long spiritual journey crafting his second LaKeith Stanfield-led movie

Jeymes Samuel (Getty Images)
Jeymes Samuel (Getty Images)

As the world awaits the theatrical release of “The Book of Clarence,” the second feature film and first cinematic venture into biblical narratives for “The Harder They Fall” writer-director Jeymes Samuel, the filmmaker already knows the next Bible story he’d like to bless audiences with: The Ten Commandments.

“None story so cinematic as The Ten Commandments, ‘Let my people go!’” Samuel told TheWrap during an interview for his Biblical times-set “The Book of Clarence.” “I want to do ‘The Ten Commandments.’ Give me ‘The Ten Commandments’ and I will show you the meaning of cinema.”

It’s been 70 years since Hollywood’s last live-action depiction of The Ten Commandments, a feat filmmaker Cecil B.

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