The Chosen could be on the house stretch of its hit run — subsequent week’s Season 6 premiere marks the penultimate run of the principle sequence, with the story of Jesus’ (Jonathan Roumie) crucifixion, and Season 7 closes the Bible-based sequence out with the resurrection. Nonetheless, the world of The Chosen continues to develop. The newest? The Chosen: The Three Kings, a brand new sequence on Fox that serves as the ultimate chapter to the Christmas trilogy.
Right here’s what we find out about The Chosen: The Three Kings up to now.
When does The Chosen: The Three Kings premiere?
It premieres on Monday, December 14, at 8/7c on Fox and next-day on Hulu. It marks the third and remaining installment to The Chosen world’s Christmas trilogy, following 2017’s The Shepherd and 2021’s Christmas With The Chosen: The Messengers.
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Who stars in The Chosen: The Three Kings?
Taye Diggs stars as Balthasar, alongside Piter Marek as Melchior and Rahul Rai as Gaspar, the “Three Sensible Males” from the Biblical story. In the meantime, Sara Anne and Raj Bond star as Younger Mary and Joseph.
It’s govt produced by The Chosen creator Dallas Jenkins, together with Ryan Swanson and Tyler Thompson.
What’s The Chosen: The Three Kings about?
The official description for the pic reads, “An unattainable shiny gentle over the tiny city of Bethlehem astonishes even distant lands. However for 3 kings, it fulfills a prophecy signaling the delivery of a brand new ruler. Frightened of regime change and even demise, they set out on a high-stakes journey to pay tribute to the new child king. However once they arrive, their stunning discovery adjustments their lives, and the whole world, perpetually.”
This particular will air within the midst of The Chosen Season 6, after the primary six episodes have dropped, however earlier than the double-episode theatrical finale for Crucifixion debuts in March. “This Christmas episode that we’re exhibiting in December really performs into what you’re going to be seeing in Season 6,” Dallas Jenkins advised us. “A number of the storylines which are in Season 6 are literally carried out on this episode. So, this isn’t only a separate episode [that is] disconnected from the present — this flows instantly with Season 6 and into Season 7. [And] there are issues in Season 6 that you just’ll see will repay on this Christmas episode, and this Christmas episode may even repay within the Crucifixion film that comes out in early 2027. It’s fairly a factor.”
All of it was initially going to be folded into the sequence’ penultimate spherical. “What occurred was, a few of this storyline that you just’re going to see in The Three Kings was initially going to be in Season 6,” Jenkins notes. “[But] it simply acquired too massive, too lengthy, too costly. We couldn’t fairly make it work, and I assumed, ‘You recognize what we have to do? We have to take this three kings flashback stuff, and we have to rework it and create a particular Christmas episode.’ ”
Jenkins introduced the pic in September and confirmed some behind-the-scenes footage of the manufacturing whereas teasing of the flip to broadcast, “This is a chance to get much more of The Chosen out to new audiences… a very cool alternative to broadcast this to an enormous viewers.”
Take a look at the trailer, embedded above, for a primary take a look at The Chosen: The Three Kings.
The Chosen: The Three Kings, December 14, 8/7c, Fox
– Reporting by Emily Aslanian
