The Omega Code
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| Directed by | Rob Marcarelli |
| Produced by | Matthew Crouch |
| Screenplay by | Stephan Blinn Hollis Barton Alan B. McElroy (uncredited) |
| Starring |
Casper Van Dien Michael York Catherine Oxenberg Michael Ironside Devon Odessa |
| Music by |
Alan Howarth Harry Manfredini |
| Cinematography | Carlos González |
| Edited by | Katina Zinner Peter Zinner |
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Gener8Xion Entertainment
Providence Entertainment |
| Distributed by | TBN Films |
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Running time
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100 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $7.2-8 million |
| Box office | $12,614,346 |
The Omega Code is a 1999 religious thriller film directed by Rob Marcarelli, starring Casper Van Dien, Michael York, Catherine Oxenberg, and Michael Ironside. The premillennialist plot revolves around a plan by the Antichrist (York) to take over the world using information hidden in the titular Bible code. The film was funded and distributed by the Trinity Broadcasting Network, whose head, televangelist Paul Crouch, wrote a novelization of the film's screenplay. In 2000, the film was released to both VHS and DVD formats by GoodTimes Entertainment. This was followed in 2001 by a follow up film, Megiddo: The Omega Code 2, a film that serves partly as a prequel as well as an alternate eschatological tale. While it had a significantly larger budget then the original, it was less enthusiastically received, and was ultimately less popular. Both films were produced by Gener8Xion Entertainment and TBN Films .
In Jerusalem, a rabbi named Rostenburg is using software he designed to decode seventy eschatological prophecies hidden within the Torah. Rostenburg has handwritten each one in a journal, to be entered into the program for deciphering. The program deciphers a prophecy which says that he is about to die; immediately, he tears the page containing the final code from his journal, hiding it in his shirt pocket. He is then shot and killed by an assassin, who takes his journal and the optical disc containing the decoding program. After the assassin leaves, two mysterious men (later revealed to be two prophets) retrieve the journal page Rostenburg had hidden.
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