 Drosnin has responded to these claims, saying that the "Moby Dick" code results are simply "nonsense"; he said codes found in the Bible Code were "truth" and contained real predictions.In May 1997, Warner Bros. Pictures acquired the film rights to "The Bible Code".At the time of acquisition, "[t]he studio’s production presidents, Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Bill Gerber, said that the work 'addresses the age-old questions of our purpose on Earth, the meaning of the Bible, and our uniqueness in the universe — all issues that have stimulated the imagination for thousands of years'.”

Drosnin, collaborating with filmmaker and writer Ruth Rachel Anderson-Avraham (née Yvonne Michele Anderson), an English Language and Literature and Religious Studies major from the University of Virginia who had then taken time off from her interdisciplinary graduate studies, including quantitative work and the pursuit of graduate degrees at HEC Paris and Harvard Law School, completed a screenplay entitled "Code" for Warner Bros. Pictures in 1998.