question: Who directed a film based on "The Passion Of The Ark"?
answer: Tom Shadyac
context: Title: Bobby Florsheim
  Passage: Robert Florsheim (born December 19, 1969) is an American screenwriter, best known for co-writing "The Passion Of The Ark" with Josh Stolberg, (the basis for the film "Evan Almighty").  Their original script was reported by Daily Variety as the highest priced spec script ever sold by unproduced screenwriters (April, 2004).  In refashioning the script into "Evan Almighty", Universal Studios discarded the script and then hired screenwriter Steve Oedekerk, who received sole writing credit on the finished film.
  Title: The Passion of Joan of Arc
  Passage: The Passion of Joan of Arc (French: La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc ) is a 1928 silent French film based on the actual record of the trial of Joan of Arc.  The film was directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer and stars Renée Jeanne Falconetti as Joan.  It is widely regarded as a landmark of cinema, especially for its production, Dreyer's direction and Falconetti's performance, which is often listed as one of the finest in cinema history.  The film summarizes the time that Joan of Arc was a captive of England, depicting her trial and execution.
  Title: Love Is Forever (film)
  Passage: Love Is Forever (also known as Comeback) is a 1982 adventure drama film based on the experiences of Australian journalist John Everingham in Laos and Thailand.  It was written, directed and co-produced by Hall Bartlett and co-produced by Michael Landon who played the lead role in the film.  Filmed in Thailand, it was released outside the United States in cinemas under the title of "Comeback" or Passion and Valor and shown first in America on television.
  Title: Fruits of Passion
  Passage: Fruits of Passion (French: "Les fruits de la passion", Japanese: 上海異人娼館／チャイナ・ドール (Shanghai Ijin Shōkan - China Doll ) ) is a 1981 French-Japanese co-production directed by Shūji Terayama and starring Klaus Kinski.  The film is loosely based on the novel "Retour à Roissy" by Pauline Réage, written as a sequel to the "Story of O".
  Title: Tiger Bay (1959 film)
  Passage: Tiger Bay is a 1959 British crime drama film based on the short story "Rodolphe et le Revolver" by Noel Calef.  It was directed by J. Lee Thompson, produced by John Hawkesworth, and co-written by John Hawkesworth and Shelley Smith (pseudonym of Nancy Hermione Bodington).  It stars John Mills as a police superintendent investigating a murder; his real life daughter Hayley Mills, in her first major film role, as a girl who witnesses the murder; and Horst Buchholz as a young sailor who commits the murder in a moment of passion.
  Title: Evan Almighty
  Passage: Evan Almighty is a 2007 American fantasy comedy film and the stand-alone sequel/spin-off to "Bruce Almighty" (2003).  The film was directed by Tom Shadyac, written by Steve Oedekerk, based on the characters created by Steve Koren and Mark O'Keefe from the original film, and starring Steve Carell, Morgan Freeman, Lauren Graham and John Goodman.
  Title: Egon Schiele – Exzess und Bestrafung
  Passage: Egon Schiele – Exzess und Bestrafung, also known as "Egon Schiele – Excess and Punishment" (English) and "Egon Schiele, enfer et passion" (French) is a 1981 film based on the life of the Austrian artist Egon Schiele.  It stars Mathieu Carriere as Schiele with Jane Birkin as his artist muse Walburga (Wally) Neuzil and Christine Kaufmann as his wife Edith and Kristina van Eyck as her sister.  The film is essentially a depiction of obsession and its constituents of sex, alcohol and uncontrolled emotions.  Set in Austria during the Great War, Schiele is depicted as the agent of social change leading to destruction of those he loves and ultimately of himself.
  Title: Noah's Ark (2007 film)
  Passage: Noah's Ark (Spanish: "El Arca" ; "The Ark", in the original English/Spanish version) is a 2007 Argentine-Italian animated comedy adventure film directed by Juan Pablo Buscarini.  It is based on the biblical story of Noah's Ark, with its focus in the animals' point of view.  The story tends to follow the traditional story; however, both the humans and the animals involved are seen as "talking" creatures throughout the film.
  Title: Él (film)
  Passage: Él (Spanish: "Him"; re-issued in the US as This Strange Passion) (1953), by Luis Buñuel, is a Mexican film based upon the novel by Mercedes Pinto.  It deals with many themes common to Buñuel’s cinema, including a May–December romance between a woman and her obsessively overprotective "bourgeois" husband, and touches of surrealism.  The film was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.
  Title: Rang Rasiya
  Passage: Rang Rasiya "(Colours of passion)" is an Indian drama film based on the life of the 19th-century Indian painter Raja Ravi Varma.  Made as a bilingual, the film is titled "Rang Rasiya" in its Hindi version and "Colours of Passion" in English.  The film, directed by Ketan Mehta, is produced by his wife Deepa Sahi and by Aanand Mahendroo.  It stars Randeep Hooda as the title character and Nandana Sen as his love interest.
citations: Evan Almighty Bobby Florsheim