Home of David creator and EP Jon Erwin spoke to ComingSoon about adapting the David versus Goliath battle within the new Prime Video sequence. Erwin spoke in regards to the present’s Sport of Thrones-like palace intrigue and the enjoyment of bringing the story to life on-screen. The present shall be obtainable on Prime Video on February 27, 2025, with the primary three episodes premiering.
“Home of David tells the story of the ascent of the biblical determine, David, who finally turns into probably the most famend and celebrated king of Israel. The sequence follows the once-mighty King Saul as he falls sufferer to his personal pleasure. On the course of God, the prophet Samuel anoints an unlikely, outcast teenager as the brand new king. As Saul loses his energy over his kingdom, David finds himself on a journey to find and fulfill his future, navigating love, loss, and violence within the court docket of the very man he’s destined to exchange. As one chief falls, one other should rise,” says the synopsis.
Tyler Treese: Home of David builds as much as the David versus Goliath battle, and it’s one of the crucial iconic elements of the Bible, so everyone is aware of the way it ends – nearly actually the entire world. So what was the problem in making that also an fascinating story to inform with the conclusion identified by everyone?
Jon Erwin: Effectively, I’m glad you loved it. I’ve been engaged on every episode after which every phase inside every episode, and so I’ve not even had time — ’trigger it’s tv — to form of zoom out and simply watch the episodes as a viewer, one proper after the opposite. So I hope you loved ’em. I look ahead to that course of.
David and Goliath… I imply, the Bible is clearly the bestselling ebook of all time, and it has these moments, and it has these large occasions, and plenty of of these large occasions have been portrayed in a method or one other, whether or not it’s the parting of the Crimson Sea, or the Lifetime of Christ, or the Crucifixion, by iconic filmmakers. With regards to David and Goliath, there actually hasn’t been a lot over the course of our trade to painting that occasion.
So, I actually wished to offer myself, as a fan and the viewers, the very best portrayal attainable of that occasion. And you already know, tv actually offers you the chance versus the movies I’ve fabricated from actually exploring the story and the characters over a for much longer time period. And in order that was enjoyable. You’re into crafting each element of it.
From time to time, Michael, who performs David, and I might cease and be like, “Wait a minute we’re doing David and Goliath,” [laughs] Simply, like, as fanboys. That’s unbelievable. I inform folks I’m only one viewer, however I’m the primary viewer, and I like that reality.
I like that second and that portrayal, and I believe it’s emotional and it’s highly effective. Michael does an excellent job. And so simply actually making an attempt to do this second justice and attempt to actually put the viewers within the second of what wouldn’t it truly be like for a teenage boy with no armor to confront a complete military and a large main them. What would that second be stepping out on that battlefield?
I hope the viewers feels slightly [of] what I felt once I first noticed it after which filming it.
One of many surprises for me watching this present is simply how a lot of a political drama it winds up being, nearly like Sport of Thrones. I assumed it was such a pure match on reflection. What was most fascinating about exploring that point of this transition between the time of kings and the time of God’s judges? What did you want most about that?
There’s themes which can be resonant and which can be straightforward to empathize with. Saul is a frontrunner. Energy is his drug and he can’t give it up. And he’s an excellent dad and he’s had a kind of an excellent run, however he can’t quit the throne. And this younger boy has been anointed in his place by the exact same person who anointed him.
So you will have that rigidity in order that palace intrigue after which actually learning the fabric and realizing that Saul represented this transition from this time of monks, judges and seers, of which Samuel, performed by Stephen Lang, was the final of these. After which Saul was the primary of the kings. But he didn’t steward his energy properly. And in order that was fascinating to me.
Actually, what was illuminating to me was the title of the present, Home of David, got here from the oldest relic ever found associated to the Bible. It was the stele that learn Home of David. 9th Century BC, it was dated to. And I felt that was fascinating. These homes had been simply pitted in opposition to one another, you already know, and I wished to humanize the Home of Saul as a lot as we did the Home of David.
I discovered that to be a really fascinating side of the story. Even the bond between Jonathan and David, that’s simply so fascinating, you already know? And it was a enjoyable factor to develop.
