Originally, Bell voiced Mary Magdalene for The Truth and Life Dramatized Audio Bible, a New Testament audiobook released in 2010. A producer tied to the Bible audiobook has since partnered with Gulfstream Studios, which is licensing “The Life of Jesus Podcast” to Fox Faith, according to publicly available information.
What’s more, the audio Bible includes the same celebrity names that are now being touted in Fox’s press release, including Brian Cox, Sean Astin, Neal McDonough, Malcolm McDowell, John Rhys-Davies, and Julia Ormond. While some of the actors have been open about their Christian faith, Cox, who is voicing the role of God, has previously called Fox News “the devil.” A rep for Rhys-Davies also confirms to Rolling Stone that the actor only learned of the “repurposed” project earlier this week.
so a bunch of actors that would never associate with Fox in a million years have been advertised as part of this “Life of Jesus” podcast, but they are only part of it because they all recorded audio for a New Testament audiobook in 2010. Kinda seems, idk…illegal? Are they allowed to repurpose audio like this if the contract said that the recordings could only be used for that one project?
The contract would as standard allow reuse and re-editing and repurposing. Otherwise no film would ever get a directors cut, and there would be no outtake reels ever.
But probably only within the scope of the original project, a director’s cut is still the same perfect whereas this appears to be a completely different one.
I looked into it briefly and in all likelihood she could but it depends heavily on her contact.