Hollywood Planning Film about Pontius Pilate
August 22, 2012 4 Comments
A trend in biblical epics continues:
Deadline reports that Warner Brothers has purchased a script called Pontias Pilate from Woman on Top writer Vera Blasi, a new take on the crucifixion of Jesus Christ as told through the eyes of the man who ordered it to happen. The film will follow Pilate’s journey as a soldier who gains power under the Roman Emperor Tiberius, but screws up along the way and finds himself desperate for public approval when the time comes to make the choice as to the fate of Jesus of Nazareth…
…No director is attached to Pontius Pilate yet, but Darren Aronofsky, Ridley Scott,Steven Spielberg, Paul Verhoeven, and even Woman in Black helmer James Watkins all have Bible-based films in various stages of development, and this one could drum up enough publicity from religious groups to cause a bit of controversy and attract more attention to it, which of course would please the studio.
It remains to be seen whether or not the films in this trend will actually continue all the way to the big screen or remain languishing in development hell, but we know for sure that we’ll at least be getting Darren Aronofsky’s take on Noah coming to theaters in 2014.
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I know an actress friend that is going to be perhaps involved here? We shall see?
Let’s hope that this won’t be another opportunity for Hollywood liberals to say “What Jesus really meant.” And make a bunch of pot shots at the Roman Catholic Church and other conservative groups.
They’ll probably make Pontius Pilate a sympathetic bisexual or something. “See? Jesus approves!” and talk about how they had “homosexual marriage” back then and how everyone was accepting of it, etc.
It will be marketed as “Controversial”.
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On the other hand, maybe people will have some courage, approach the film with seriousness and make Pilate a really anti-heroic protagonist that ends up changing by the end of the film. (He had wife named Claudia, who is considered a saint in the Orthodox Church, hint, hint.) Or deeply examines the implication of the existence of the supernatural in a world dominated by Greek philosophy and Roman brutality. It may as well be a mainstream film that is pro-Christian at its core, but that’s too much to hope for in an industry dominated by Jewish businessmen and directors.
We must always call antiSemitism, when we see it, not to mention this further religious bigotry! And with such ignorance also, seeing that a Vatican II itself, the RCC had asked several Reformed theologians to come as observers, i.e. both, Karl Barth and G.C. (Gerrit Cornelis) Berkouwer.
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