Posted on 11/25/2007 8:17:37 AM PST by Zakeet
Hollywood producers are to film a movie about Jesus as a mystic travelling across India living in Buddhist monasteries and fighting injustice. They drew on revisionist scholars to flesh out the "missing years" of Jesus, between the ages of 13 and 30, which are untouched in the Bible.
"The Aquarian Gospel," a $20 million movie, portrays Jesus as a holy man and teacher inspired by eastern religions in India. It takes its name from a century-old book that examined Christianity's eastern roots and is in its 53rd reprint, the Guardian reported Monday in a story carried on BuddhistChannel.tv.
Producers say the movie will be shot using actors and computer animation as in the movie 300 and will follow Yeshua, Jesus in Aramaic, from the Middle East to India. Casting has begun both in Hollywood and India's Bollywood.
"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, due out in 2009, is to be a fantasy action adventure with the three wise men as Jesus' mentors. The producers say it will feature a "young and beautiful" princess, but it is not clear whether she is Jesus' love interest.
I would love to the gutless trash in Hollywood depict Mohommed.....especially in a “Last Temptation of Christ” manner.
But you won’t see that happen...
It sounds really dumb.
It wouldn’t surprise me if they depicted Jesus as being gay.
Yet the intellectual pinheads always want to claim that Judeao-Christian beliefs “draw” from other traditions — never realizing that the opposite is the case.
The world’s false religions each attempt to mimic one or more of the truths contained in the word of God so as to divert people from the one way to salvation.
100% this is next.
Interestingly enough, there are actually stories in the Qu’ran that “fill in” some of Jesus’ life story. But even that is still way not enough to cover the gap from infancy to Jesus’ life from his late 20’s to the Crucifixion.
Are they going to include the one where Jesus didn’t die on the cross, but fled to SHingo Aomori Japan to become a rice farmer and raise a family?
If the book and movie theorizes that Jesus spent some years studying religious and social principles—and has found some Eastern themes within his teachings, I don’t see why this should be Christian bashing or blasphemy.
If there are ‘missing years’ in the chronological story of Jesus in the Scriptures, are we to assume he spent them just working as a carpenter during the day and sitting around being an everyday Jewish villager on his off time?
That doesn’t sound very plausible—or edifying—for a budding Diety.
Wasn't Joseph of Arimathea His uncle. He had the legal right to collect His body and bury Him in his never used tomb. Further, where did Mary His mother get taken? I suspect Hollywood is not ignorant to the traditions of Glastonbury, but rather are a useful tool to plant a flood of deception to willing minds.
God works in mysterious ways. Why is it silly to think that he might spend the time in exactly the same way that he spent the part of his youth that was documented?
“are we to assume he spent them just working as a carpenter during the day and sitting around being an everyday Jewish villager on his off time”
That’s why the people in his home town did not recognize him at first.
Coming to his hometown, he began teaching the people in their synagogue, and they were amazed. “Where did this man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers?” they asked. 55”Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother’s name Mary, and aren’t his brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas? 56Aren’t all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all these things?
And this will be Hollywood's opinion of what "wisdom and stature" are. Ugh!
Completely off topic, but why is it in Bollywood films that female singers sing at such an unnaturally high pitch?
They sound like Minnie Mouse!
This movie should get great reviews in the MSM, especially if Jesus comes out looking like a copycat of the “Dollie Llama” or some such.
Probably bi, plus panthiestic, not to mention smoking a huge hookah on an oversized ‘shroom with a large caterpillar extolling Chompsky and Communism and hating on President Bush... plus worse scenes that I can’t/don’t want to even attempt to imagine.
Certainly he was in the cave of Caerbannog and at the castle of Aaaargh.
I think it is an unfounded rumor that he visited Brother Maynard.
Why not? What's so terrible about the Son of God living an ordinary human life for his first 30 years or so?
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