Gail, I see a really good script writer making a film out of Samuels I and II, interspersed with Psalms, David's soliloquys, when he is agonizing alone in his age. Or for the youthful poems, when he is in the tent, appeasing the despair of King Saul. Psalms 1 and 8, the boy can sing sing to the sheep.

But no word yet from Mr. Irons.

You know who would be drop-dead gorgeous as the young David?
Jared Leto, the way he looked in "Alexander the Great. " Alas, that was 2004 and he probably doesn't look like that any more.