![]() But it’s not a kind of story that makes one culture superior to another. We will try to pitch it to Hollywood companies because there is a BIG interest in anything Chinese, and ours is an East meets West story. ![]() I know you are a screenwriter and now are working with Charlie Wen, (Co-founder/Head of Visual Development for Marvel Studios) on this project.Īre you pitching this to movie production companies, or is this just the way you like to write? This book is just as fast paced and suspenseful as any of the Chronicles of the Nephilim books and reads like an action movie. As we did research, we realized that if we created this first as a movie, the likelihood was very high that Hollywood would strip out the most important spiritual truths we had discovered and layered into the story, so we decided to write the novel first and get our version out there no matter what. When I heard how “Game of Thrones” Huang Di’s life was, I knew this would be a fascinating story. He told me that he had always wanted to tell the story of the first emperor of China, because of his heritage. Charlie and I had been talking about working on a project together. He enjoyed my Nephilim series and I LOVED his illustration for Marvel movies like The Avengers, Captain America, Thor and others. Is this a co-write? What started this partnership?Ĭharlie was the co-creator of the visual development department at Marvel Studios. The book is credited to you and Charlie Wen. From a Christian perspective, the Dragon is Satanic, so it makes spiritual sense to see a bigger picture here of the very kind of supernatural gods of nations that are bent toward deception and evil.īut of course, that’s only the tip of the ziggurat of fascinating facts and myths we found. This was also the time period where the Dragon became a ubiquitous symbol of China. The Watcher paradigm comes in with the fact that the emperor banished the worship of Shang Di, and the worship of the “lesser gods” began around this time. So where did that come from? Some argue that the Chinese people came from the Tower of Babel incident and kept the knowledge of the past in a less corrupt form than other pagan cultures did.Īnother fascinating evidence of this possibility is that the ancient Chinese language is a pictographic language, whose words reflect some of the spiritual truths of the book of Genesis, a thousand years before Genesis was written. Yet, the Chinese had no known connection to the Jews. This was very peculiar because there was no other religion on the face of the earth that did that, except one: the Jews. ![]() We wanted to write this story because we had discovered certain historical oddities surrounding the first Emperor of China, Ch’in Shir Huang Di (or Huang Di), that were significant from a Christian perspective.įirst, was that before Huang Di, the Chinese people worshiped a single God, they called Shang Di, without images. What he finds is an exotic world ruled by a brutal emperor on a mad quest to find the elixir of immortality. In a desperate bid to save his throne, the Greek king over Babylon sends his son, Antiochus, a dishonored warrior, into the mysterious land of the Far East to capture a mythical creature that will give him absolute power: a dragon. So what is the setting and basic plot of this story and why did you think this was an important story to tell? It wasn’t until we were developing the story that we realized that this would fit perfectly into the Watcher Paradigm and warrant its own series. The Dragon King actually started out as a standalone story about the first emperor of China from a spiritual perspective. Chronicles of the Watchers, then focuses on stories that may carry that paradigm into the Gentile nations to show how that spiritual reality may look in what is normally the unseen realm of history. ![]() In that series, I included the “Watcher Paradigm,” that is, the understanding of Deuteronomy 32:8-10 and Daniel 4 and 10, where the nations are ruled over by supernatural divine beings or “gods,” by the decree of God himself. Why did you feel it was the right time to start a new series?īrian Godawa: The Chronicles of the Nephilim was based on the premise of retelling all the stories in the Bible where giants appeared or were crucial to the theological War of the Seed of the Serpent and the Seed of the Woman. Mike Indest: Brian, the new book The Dragon King starts a new series. Since I reviewed the last book, I thought an interview would be in order to catch up with Brian. The new book is called The Dragon King and the new series is the Chronicles of the Watchers. I reviewed his latest book in the series Jesus Triumphant for Down the Line and was really looking forward to the next book in the series and was surprised that his latest book was not the next in the Chronicles of the Nephilim series but the first book in a new series. I’ve been enthralled with Brian Godawa’s book series Chronicles of the Nephilim.
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