Posted on 11/18/2007 6:58:14 PM PST by BGHater
Hollywood is to fill in the Bible's "missing years" with a story about Jesus as a wandering mystic who travelled across India, living in Buddhist monasteries and speaking out against the iniquities of the country's caste system.
Film producers have delved deep into revisionist scholarship to piece together what they say was Jesus's life between the ages of 13 and 30, a period untouched by the recognised gospels.
The result is the Aquarian Gospel, a $20m movie, which portrays Jesus as a holy man and teacher inspired by a myriad of eastern religions in India. The Aquarian Gospel takes its name from a century-old book that examined Christianity's eastern roots and is in its 53rd reprint.
Article continues The film's producers say the movie will be shot using actors and computer animation like 300, the retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae, and will follow the travels of Yeshua, believed to be the name for Jesus in Aramaic, from the Middle East to India. Casting for suitable Bollywood and Hollywood actors has begun.
"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," said Drew Heriot, the film's director, whose credits include the cult hit The Secret.
The film, which is due for release in 2009, sets out to be a fantasy action adventure account of Jesus's life with the three wise men as his mentors. Although the producers say the film will feature a "young and beautiful" princess, it is not clear whether Jesus is to have a love interest.
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a story about Jesus as a wandering mystic who travelled across India, living in Buddhist monasteries...
Kung Fu Christ?
No thanks!
yep I wonder about that love interest for Jesus in this movie???? Who is she, and how did she influence Jesus’ life?
gee, I can’t wait to see how Hollywood will portray the life of Jesus, and how he was inspired by eastern religions. I think the politically correct crowd approve of Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and other eastern religions. It’s just Christianity they hate.
So look for this movie to make a political statement that Jesus believed certain things that aren’t part of modern Christianity.
They’re creating scripts directly from Onion articles now.
I wonder if the movie will show Jesus being tolerant of various social problems,and urging government programs for people such as unwed mothers, homosexuals, petty criminals..............
LOL! Who do they think will want to see this? No Christians that I know would be interested. Atheists? No. Secularists? Nope. Buddhists? Maybe this will appeal to the American Buddhist population.
I wonder if Jesus will warn of global warming way back in the 1st century...............
Who do they think will want to see this?
The same people who flocked to the theaters for Broke Back Mountain and Rendition.
Even that would amount to a tremendous leap of creativity.
How about the Spring Break vacation that Mohammed went on drunk on beer, with topless kufir dancing around him and daily wet-burqua contests?
Hollyweirdos would never touch that. Too dangerous.
Hollywood sees how successful Mohammed got with his cult after rewriting the Bible, they decided to start their own.
hahahahaha
Yeshua is not aramaic. It is a Hebrew name (yud shin vav ayin) and for example see the book of Nehemiah where this priest is mentioned quite often.
The hebrew word for Jesus is Yeshu (yud shin vav).
No, Hollywood Jesus will teach earth-worship. Just wait.
As discovered in the, hidden from the public purposefully to hurt us all by the church, Gospel of Joseph. Or was that secretly penned by Mary Magdelene?
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