More Details On THE AQUARIAN GOSPELS Emerge
As I reported back October the 1st there is going to be a movie made about the “missing” years of the life of Jesus shot in “the style of 300″ against a green screen. And now, thanks to The Guardian, some more details have emerged about the movie. And I kid you not when I say that they could be turning Christ The Saviour into Christ The Action Hero!
According to The Guardian article the movie will focus on Jesus between the ages of 13 - 33 when he wandered in “the wilderness”, or India in this case, and learnt about other religions and beliefs before returning to Jerusalem as the Messiah. And, among other things, it will feature The Battle of Thermopylae, have a “young and beautiful” princess (according to the producers - even though they haven’t gone the whole way and stated that Jesus will have a love interest. Not yet anyway!) and be a “fantasy action adventure account of Jesus’s life” with the three wise men acting as his mentors as he travels across India speaking out against the inequities in the country. Here’s what the director, Drew Herriot, has to say:
“The Bible devotes just seven words to the most formative years of Yeshua’s life saying: ‘The boy grew in wisdom and stature’. The [film] will follow Christ’s journey to the east where he encounters other traditions, and discovers the principles that are the bedrock of all the world’s great religions,”
OK, fair enough, I can accept that. But just read this next quote from one of the producers, William Sees Keenan (who is currently working on Lindsay Lohan’s Poor Things by the way):
“We are looking at new themes. In our story Jesus was loyal to the untouchables [in India] and he defended them with his life by saying that everyone could read the Vedas [Hindu holy books],”
“Defended them with his life”? Oh, please tell me that you are going to get Jesus swinging a sword a la King Leonidas? 
Seriously, you couldn’t make this stuff up! I thought that Christians would be upset enough about a retelling of a heretical Gospel in movie form anyway but the prospect of Hollywood turning Jesus into an action star in a fantasy-action adventure movie? Now that’s going to go down a storm!
[Source - The Guardian Online via FilmJunk]
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