Loglines & Screenplays by Katheryn Maddox Haddad

GENRES: Biopic / True Story, Family

True stories of desperate 100 commoners searching for the God-King.

SEASON ONE:  BETHLEHEM  Told as an anthology series, the coming of Jesus will change the lives of 100 desperate commoners, including Mary, the young girl who will be his mother. When cruel King Herod hears whispers of the birth of a God-king who will end his rule, he begins a reign of terror that will test Mary's faith 

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

PILOT:  MARY AND HEROD.  Told as an anthology series, the coming of Jesus will change the lives of 100 desperate commoners, including Mary, the young girl who will be his mother. When cruel King Herod hears whispers of the birth of a God-king who will end his rule, he begins a reign of terror that will test Mary's faith

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

Elizabeth has become miraculously pregnant in her old age. She is shy and goes into seclusion, not certain how to explain a miracle. She prays her son will not grow up to be like her.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

Feeling betrayed when Mary becomes pregnant before they are officially married, Joseph must decide whether to turn her in for stoning according to the law.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

Joseph finalizes his marriage to Mary amidst town gossip. A census is called at the other end of the country. To avoid prison, Joseph takes Mary to be counted and they become homeless.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

They are dirty and smelly. People say they could do better for themselves if they wanted to. What do the angels think of the whole thing?

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

They live through attempted destruction of the temple by Pompey and then Herod. For decades they pray for the promised God-King to come rescue them and cling to hope.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

King Phraates of Parthia believes the new star meant the birth of a god. He sends his wise men to search the earth for the meaning of the star.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

They arrive with their caravan of soldiers and treasures and wonder why this strange kingdom is not celebrating their new king.

PLOT CENTERS AROUND WISE MEN (MAGI)

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

He talks all the time and is honored by the other priests. When an angel tells him he will be a father in his old age, he demands proof, then wishes he hadn’t.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

Mary and Joseph escape to Egypt to protect their baby from cruel King Herod. When they return, Herod’s son kills thousands in the temple. Will it ever be safe for their son?

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

The two most powerful men in the kingdom try to destroy each other while the God-Man makes plans to conquer them both with no army.

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A miracle baby is selected to announce the God-King to the world but grows up to be a shy weakling. Afraid of his boss, crowds, and his own shadow, will John, the hermit priest, back out?

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GENRES: Period Piece, Family

Two worlds clash as the Evil One uses all his powers to break the God-King and keep mankind under his control forever.

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GENRES: Period Piece, Family

Two nerds set out to find the God-King based on a list of qualifications they have decided he must fill in order to prove who he is.

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Future Aide Nathaniel never lies, believes whatever he’s told, and doesn’t understand the real world. Then he is introduced to the King of the true real world.

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GENRES: Period Piece, Family

The rich brag how much they have “for the glory of God” while a poor widow and her children suffer in isolation. 

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

Nicodemus, a proud member of the Supreme Council cowers when the Supreme Council sentences the God-King to death, then goes public.

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GENRES: Period Piece, Family

Widow Istar, who has lost five husbands, is distrustful. How does she convince an entire city to believe her new-found truth?

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

Chuza is the most powerful man in the province outside of Herod himself, but cannot save his own son. 

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

The very one she forbade her daughter to marry – the eccentric Peter – saves Anna's life.

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Just when his fishing business is about to go under and he needs his sons most, the God-King lures them away.

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PLOT CENTERS AROUND ZEBEDEE

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

The young revolutionary, Simon from Lebanon, is in a holy war against the Romans and struggles to find peace. Then he meets the God-King.

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GENRES: Period Piece, Family

Moeshe, a successful contractor is forced from his mansion and wife when he contracts leprosy and becomes a monster.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

A successful salesman's life is destroyed when, while drunk, Barnabas's chariot kills a family and he is paralyzed for life.

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GENRES: Period Piece, Family

They say Matthew sold his soul when he became a tax collector for the Romans.  He is not welcome in his synagogue.  Jesus chooses him to be one of his apostles.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

Judas is a banker who cheats whenever he can. The God-King gives him a chance to change and makes him a miracle worker.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

Lame all his life, he runs after every health scheme to be able to walk again. 

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GENRES: Period Piece, Family

Religious leaders plot to kill the God-King.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

Their strong personalities are needed to carry out their assignments. But they can hardly get along.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

He commands hundreds and wins battles but cannot save the servant boy he loves as a son.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

Miriam's husband dies and she begins to doubt God. She is convinced God does not exist when her only son dies.

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GENRES: Period Piece, Family

While trying to expose the God-King as a fraud, his mistress shows up. Worse, she cries at the God-King's feet.

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GENRES: Period Piece, Family

Unbeknown to each other, five rich women decide independently to help support the God-Kingdom.

PLOT CENTERS AROUND JOANNA, SUZANNAH, SALOME, MARY MAGDALENE, & MARY LEVI

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

Leaders of higher education match wits with the ignorant God-King. Judas shows them his superiority.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

The God-King controls the demon world.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

The Evil One sends deadly storms to stop the God-King forever.  

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

Facing the ax, John does not cower in terror. Instead, he enters glory.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

It’s the strong people that the Evil One goes after. How do they fight off his demons?

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GENRES: Period Piece, Family

The year the girl is born, a lady in another part of town suffers an incurable illness. The lady loses her dignity, the girl loses her life.

PLOT CENTERS AROUND THE GIRL & THE LADY

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

When the God-King returns to, Nazareth, the city where his earthly body grew up, his neighbors grow jealous and decide to kill him.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

People follow the God-King around for the free food he makes out of nothing.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

Though the God-King is in hiding from his enemies, she finds him in her city in Lebanon and refuses to leave.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

Though his enemies continue to hunt him down to kill him, the God-King comes out of hiding to help the disabled.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

As the God-King’s enemies move in on him, he climbs a mountain where he becomes part of a vision.  Then he heads to the city of his death.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

James and John recommend the God-King kill his enemies before they kill him, then dream of living in a palace.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

The God-King announces his God-Kingdom will be set up soon, then selects and trains 72 followers without letting them go home first.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

While in hiding, the God-King sends 72 recruits to keep his cause moving. Then he shows up right in the hornet’s nest.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

Leaders seduce a teenage girl. When almost caught, they use her to trap the God-King and have them both killed.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

The Supreme Council issues an edict excommunicating anyone following the God-King.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

Rather than lose their friends and influence, they disown their son.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

Martha battles ADD.  She has always been disorganized but decides to upgrade her house, her food, her clothes all in one day for her important guest. When he arrives, she is not ready.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

The God-King comes out of hiding and travels too close to where his enemies are planning his death. All to bring a friend back to life after he is buried.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

They cannot deny the God-King brought a dead man back to life. His enemies panic, transferring money out of the kingdom and plotting harder to kill him before he destroys them.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

Always shorter than everyone else, he gets rich so he can buy friendships.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

People everywhere are declaring the God-King their king, but no one is doing anything about it.  So Mary buys coronation oil for a private ceremony.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

The people declare the God-King their king as he enters the capital city while his enemies plan their getaway before Jesus -- they think -- takes over the temple and palace.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

The people want the God-King to themselves and turn away Grecians who don't belong in the temple.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

Emotionally exhausted, the God-King eats one last time with his 12 aides. He shocks them when he tells them they are to eat his flesh and blood.

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GENRES: Period Piece, Family

The God-King’s enemies pay a bribe to get possession of the God-King “just for questioning”.  They betray his betrayer -- Judas. 

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

The God-King struggles between selfishness and selflessness, wrong and right, The Evil One and Mankind. He must take the hellish punishment for mankind. Can he?

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

500 Roman legionnaires head to the God-King’s hiding place. His aides run away in fear while Peter denies ever knowing him, escapes, and collapses.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

The only way to legally kill the God-King is with bribes. The death sentence is passed and soldiers beat the skin off his back.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

Prince Herod Antipas refuses to sentence the God-King to death, partly because Prefect Pilate occupies the palace that should have belonged to him. He takes his anger out the God-King, both emotionally and physically.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

The prefect likes the God-King and how he stands up to the local leaders more than he does. He tries to get the God-King released, but the local leaders blackmail him.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

The God-King, barely alive after his numerous beatings, manages to live long enough to be crucified. Simon is recruited to take his instrument of torture up Execution Hill.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

The first three hours on the cross as the God-King lets the Evil One blame him for every bad thing people have ever done and kill his body.  R-rated.

PLOT CENTERS AROUND JESUS.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

The God-King descends to hell where he lets the Evil One punish him for every bad thing people have ever done and kill his soul.  R-rated.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

They spend their last hours in prison arguing over everything including the existence of God. When one of them dies, he finds a surprise.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

Racked with guilt for denying and not defending the God-King at his trial, Rabbi Joseph of the Sanhedrin goes public.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

When the stone sealing the God-King’s tomb flies across the graveyard and the guards see the God-King back alive, the religious leaders bribe them to keep their mouths shut.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

Salome stands by her sister, Mary, through every storm from her unplanned pregnancy to her son’s execution. Salome is among the first the God-King appears to after he returns to life. Then what?

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

The God-King is dead. They cannot sleep, so return to the cemetery. The God-King has a surprise for them.

PLOT ENTERS AROUND 5 RICH WOMEN - SUSANNAH, JOANNA, MARY MAGDALENE, SALOME, MARY LEVI

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

Peter has betrayed the man he thought he would die for. He goes into seclusion to face his own well-deserved death. The God-King must appear to him many times before he can forgive himself.

PLOT CENTERS AROUND PETER

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

Alphaeus laments his son, Big Little James, always being different from other people. Then he meets the God-King and everything changes.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

The God-King’s closest friends refuse to believe the reports he had been seen alive. The house where they are in hiding is buried in unbearable grief.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

Back when the God-King had decided to go back to enemy territory to bring his friend back to life in the cemetery, he said, “Let us go so we may die with him.” 

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

Friends provide transportation for the remaining eleven aides to escape enemy territory and go back home to the lake.  Only seven arrive.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

The God-King appears to his eleven up north and tells them they have to move south into enemy territory, then divide up and conquer the world.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

The God-King appears at his own memorial service and personally meets all 500 who had met him, even back to the shepherds and wise men.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

James was the first-born of Joseph, so had always resented Jesus for being treated special by their parents. 

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

The God-King had appears to his aides many times since coming back to life.  They know one of those visits will be the last one. 

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

Now back in his own spirit realm, the God-King sends his aides his spirit to give them his courage. They go public despite death threats by the Sanhedrin which is ruled by the Rich Sadducees.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

The God-King had told his aides to begin his movement in the capital city, then spread to the whole world. They procrastinate year after year.

GENRES: Period Piece, Family

It has been over 60 years since the God-King had walked the earth. Now old John is in exile. Then he takes a walk to visit heaven.