LOS ANGELES, CA — Netflix has canceled its highly anticipated eight-episode limited series “Kingdom Come,” a prestige biblical drama featuring an ensemble cast and a $120 million budget, after a script supervisor in the writers’ room discovered that the show’s source material was “just the Bible, word for word, with stage directions.”

The series, which had already completed principal photography on four episodes, was reportedly greenlit in September 2025 after showrunner Ethan Caldwell pitched it as “an untold story of betrayal, redemption, and an unlikely hero who rises from nothing.” Sources say no one in the room recognized the plot of Exodus.

“We were three months into production when our script supervisor, Amy, held up a Bible and said, ‘This is page forty-seven of the pilot,’” said a producer who requested anonymity. “Ethan just stared at her for a very long time.”

“The twist in episode six was the parting of the Red Sea. We thought it was groundbreaking. Apparently it was written about 3,400 years ago.”

Caldwell released a statement calling the situation “an honest creative oversight” and noting that he had “never personally read the source material in its entirety.” He added that he still believes the story has “franchise potential” and has pitched a spinoff focused on a “mysterious figure who walks on water,” which Netflix is reportedly considering.

A Netflix spokesperson confirmed the cancellation, citing “redundancy with existing IP” and noting that the streaming platform already hosts fourteen adaptations of the same material under different titles.

At press time, Caldwell had optioned the Book of Revelation as a “sci-fi original” and described it as “unlike anything anyone has ever read.”