Kooman plans Daniel sequels through the lions’ den

Daniel Kooman said on a YouTube interview posted September 21 that Unveil Studios plans more Daniel movies after Daniel and the Fiery Furnace. “The plan, and maybe this will be the first place people hear this, but the plan is to do stories with Daniel and Jeremiah, Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar, and then working our way to the lion’s den,” he told host Johnathan Bi. The furnace picture covers the first three chapters. The rest of the narrative half of the book is now on the record as a slate.

Matthew and Daniel Kooman wrote and directed the live-action Book of Daniel opener for their Vancouver Island company. Mena Massoud plays Daniel. Elijah Alexander plays Nebuchadnezzar. EKKL Entertainment put the film into 1,525 North American theaters on September 18 without Angel and without Come and See. The Numbers had the weekend at $3.14 million, later revised upward, still about two thousand dollars a screen. The rooms showed up. Most of the seats did not.

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The September 21 interview where Kooman names Jeremiah, Nebuchadnezzar, and the lions’ den as the next chapters. Watch on YouTube
Mena Massoud as Daniel looks upward in a blue and gold robe before a blue Ishtar Gate and a hillside city in Daniel and the Fiery Furnace

Kooman had already framed the first film as an origin chunk. In the same conversation he said the brothers wanted room for “multiple episodes or movies,” that you could do a whole picture on the lions’ den and another on Nebuchadnezzar’s chapter four, and that they took the Babylon beginning first. The Bi interview is the first time he lined those titles up in public order: Jeremiah, Nebuchadnezzar, lions’ den.

He also drew the line the sequels will have to live inside. Chapters one through six are narrative, he said. Seven through twelve are prophetic and hard to shoot as plot. “You build the narrative stories and you add those prophetic visions.” That is a feature roadmap, not a streaming season order, and not a date. No Friday. No crowdfund total for the next one. No word on whether Massoud and Alexander stay.

Unveil’s site was already teasing a lions’ den follow-up before opening weekend. What changed Monday is the director putting Jeremiah and a Nebuchadnezzar chapter on the same map, on camera, three days after a wide Bible title finished soft. The open question is whether a $2,000-a-screen average funds that map, or whether the next Daniel picture waits for a different list than the one that filled Fandango and left the multiplex mostly empty.

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