Overview
- Cage told Entertainment Weekly the on-set swarm was not divine retribution, blaming poor location choices and protected insects at a mountaintop set.
- Nathan said production halted for a day after a finishing chemical attracted wasps to a newly built location, calling rumors of mysticism unfounded.
- Magnolia’s final trailer is out, tickets are on sale, and the film opens in U.S. theaters on November 14.
- Nicolas Cage stars as Joseph with Noah Jupe as Jesus and FKA twigs as Mary, with Isla Johnston featured, in a story set in Roman-era Egypt.
- The movie draws on the apocryphal Infancy Gospel of Thomas and has been reported by at least one outlet as rated R for strong, bloody violence and brief nudity.