It’s Fight Club Jesus! Photo Illustration: Getty Images (Jesus); Courtesy of 20th Century Fox (Fight Club)
How Will Hollywood Offend Christians Next?
Next week’s release of the probable blockbuster The Golden Compass has religious groups freaking out about its atheistic themes, and a 300-style Jesus action movie is now in the works. What’s next in the world of Christian-enraging cinema? The 13th Disciple, an Indian fantasy-adventure about Jesus’s evil twin, that’s what! The film, which will take place entirely in modern-day India, is mainly concerned with a pair of twin archaeologists who discover that the reincarnation of Christ’s twin has become the charismatic leader of a malevolent sect. The plot basically sounds like a cross between Indiana Jones and Fight Club, which makes us wonder: What movie will Jesus Christ get shoehorned into next? How about a Cloverfield Christ, with an enormous Jesus wreaking havoc upon Manhattan? Or maybe an Animal House Jesus, with the Lord and His Apostles as a rowdy campus fraternity? We’d suggest a superhero Jesus, but we’re pretty sure Superman Returns already went there. —Matthew Perpetua
Jesus Christ Gets An Evil Twin in Fantasy Film [Reuters]
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