The story of the flood can be found in more than one ancient people. They could have used some other backdrop for this movie than the biblical Noah.
I don’t mind science fiction movies, as long as they’re not trying to tell me that this is actually what is going on ... LOL ...
Here’s what the producers of the movie were saying before it came out ...
“The pre-release advertising promoting the movie Noah made a point of stating that while the director took artistic license in the production it was still faithful to the biblical story.” [ ... ]
The producers tried to keep these details secret from the faith-based public in order to not have a backlash from negative reviews that would affect the all important opening weekend box office. I learned about some of these details last year from a French graphic novel (which I was shown in Germany) upon which the film’s script was based.
As far as I know this was not translated or released to the English-speaking market, presumably to prevent these fictional elements from getting out to the faith-based American audience. Now, the secret is out and it is hoped that informed audiences will, like Noah in the film, judge this parody of the biblical account, unworthy of cinematic salvation.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3138756/posts
Agreed. But they did not.