http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118047054

After helping bring Harry Potter and Kevin McCallister to life, Chris Columbus is looking to put another famous kid up on the big screen: Jesus Christ.

Columbus' 1492 Pictures and CJ Entertainment have acquired the rights to the Anne Rice tome "Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt," which tells the story of a seven-year-old Jesus, who departs Egypt with his family to return home to Nazareth and discovers the truth about his birth, who he is, and his purpose in life.

Cyrus Nowrasteh will direct from a screenplay he penned with Betsy Nowrasteh. Columbus will produce along with Michael Barnathan and Mark Radcliffe through 1492 Pictures with Sean Lee, Patricia Chun and Keo Lee producing through CJ Entertainment.

Rice came to Nowrasteh first and asked if he would take on the project after seeing his film "The Stoning of Soraya M." After agreeing to write and direct the project, Nowrasteh brought it to Columbus and Marnathan at 1492.

"This film has the potential to be a cinematic classic, a picture that will appeal to all ages, all around the world," Columbus said. "I am proud to be part of this incredible production."

The Nowrastehs and Rice are repped by CAA. Columbus and 1492 are repped by WME.

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Anne Rice, via her Facebook page:

"I'm very grateful that such excellent people are doing the film. I've read the script. It's beautiful, and deeply faithful to my novel. I'm very very happy, to say the least."

Gag. Anne Rice should've stuck to vampires.

I haven't read the novel, but is it safe to assume that Jesus is portrayed as a self-hating homosexual?

Hope it turns into a series:

Christ Alone
Christ Alone 2: Lost in Mesopotamia

Fuck. Hollywood has stolen my Jesus Begins idea!

You wouldn't say that if you had read her last couple of vampire novels...

Not with these people behind the project.

So does Jesus fight Vampires in this one?

I hope so. I want one of the vamps to suck the Lord's blood and then say "mmmm....the Blood of Christ....Amen!"

No, but He gives Marius a blowjob.

Do you realize how much money her vampire movies would make nowadays?

I'd prefer to see Mrs. Christfire.

Jesus Christ Begins

Jesus and the lost bread for dinner

Jesus 3- Amen!

Already done.

Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt gets a new title, a release date, and we get a first picture of the young actor in the title role.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/filmcha...new-title.html

Plot sounds like Jesus Christ: the Phantom Menace

Jesus Begins
Holy Knight
Jesus Rises


A movie about 7-year old Jesus has disaster written all over it. "Are you an angel?" "Nobody can kill a Jedi Holy Warrior! Nobody!" "I'm a pod camel racer!"

Another tale of a caucasian Jesus, nice!!!!

After seeing how much shit Fox got for casting a black Human Torch and how much debate a black Bond gets, I'm sort of surprised at the number of times he's been cast as a white guy. But who knows, maybe they white washed it with all the other bullshit told about him.

I think it started w/ the Italians and their art. They made him white. And then it just carried on cuz well...If it ain't white, it ain't right.

Young new age androgynous European Jesus. That looks horrible.