Pinnacle Peak Pictures, the studio behind The Case for Christ and God’s Not Dead, has released a new film well in time for Easter: The Last Supper. Directed by Mauro Borrelli and filmed in Morocco, it will appear on US screens from March 14. Jamie Ward stars as Jesus, Robert Knepper as Judas, and James Oliver Wheatley as Peter. Other star turns are Charlie MacGechan as John and James Faulkner as a terrifyingly intelligent and cunning Caiaphas.
The film opens with Peter in a wistful mood: “I was a fisherman once, content to follow the rhythm of the tides…but He made me a fisher of men.” At once we’re plunged into AD 30, with Jesus’s ministry in full swing along the shores of the Sea of Galilee. As the sun goes down, we see the disciples urging Jesus to send the people away to fend for themselves but, as we know, He has other ideas.
