The Book of Mormon
Format
Historical Drama (5 Seasons)
A prophet-general chronicles the rise and collapse of a covenant civilization, where faith, power, and pride wage war across centuries, and history itself becomes a battlefield.
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Synopsis
The Book of Mormon is a sweeping, five-season historical drama told across two intertwined timelines. One follows Mormon, a prodigious youth turned reluctant general, living through the final collapse of the Nephite civilization. The other brings to life the sacred record he abridges—a centuries-long history of kings, judges, prophets, reformers, rebels, and wars that once defined a covenant people.
The series begins generations earlier in Zarahemla, where Mosiah unites fractured peoples, restores sacred worship, and establishes a new political and religious order after flight from the land of Nephi. But as monarchies give way to judgeships, corruption quietly spreads. Prophets call the people to repentance while secret combinations, ideological wars, and systemic inequality hollow the society from within. What was founded in covenant slowly decays through pride and division.
In the present timeline, Mormon watches his world unravel. As civil war consumes his people and hatred blinds them to their own destruction, he races to preserve what can still be saved, not just lives, but memory. Isolated, bereaved, and betrayed, Mormon must decide what is worth recording for future generations before everything he loves is lost.
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Our Approach
The Book of Mormon is conceived as a prestige, long-form historical drama, grounded, serious, and complex. The series does not depend on an audience’s acceptance of the narrative’s historicity; instead, it seeks to arrest attention and cultivate empathy in the same way great works of historical fiction, fantasy, and science fiction do, through character, consequence, and emotional truth.
This series occupies a unique and essential place in the 1830 Studios slate. It is one of our most important opportunities to present the cornerstone of Latter-day Saint belief to a secular audience, not through explanation or argument, but through story.
By capitalizing on the cultural curiosity surrounding the name while reclaiming it from the satirical musical it is most commonly associated with, the series invites genuine curiosity and offers an unexpected window into the moral, theological, and deeply human heart of the text, and the man behind the title.