Comments on: Paul Verhoeven Trying To Get An Adaptation Of His Book ‘Jesus Of Nazareth’ Off The Ground https://staging2.theplaylist.net/paul-verhoeven-trying-to-get-an-adaptation-of-his-book-jesus-of-nazareth-off-the-ground-20110425/ Tue, 17 Nov 2020 22:02:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Anonyman https://staging2.theplaylist.net/paul-verhoeven-trying-to-get-an-adaptation-of-his-book-jesus-of-nazareth-off-the-ground-20110425/#comment-99201 Fri, 13 May 2016 14:41:33 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2011/more/uncategorized/paul-verhoeven-trying-to-get-an-adaptation-of-his-book-jesus-of-nazareth-off-the-ground-119026/#comment-99201 Verhoeven was an observer of some Jesus Seminar sessions, and when he finally told them his outline for a Jesus movie, one scholar-member pointed out that all the stuff Verhoeven came up with was stuff the seminar had explicited voted down as unhistorical!

This reminds the present writer how Anne Rice claimed to have read lots of Historical Jesus work, but in the end decided to ignore them. After her first book \”about Jesus,\” she moved on to inventing sexual interest for him, as I recall.

That preceding doesn\’t get at how really awful Verhoeven ideas for a Jesus film really are. He essentially rejects prevailing views of scholars, makes up an image of Jesus as the bastard son of a Roman soldier, puts the temple scene at the beginning, so he can put his fictional Jesus on the lam from angry priests, and so on. You don\’t have to be fundamentalist to be pissed off about this, you need only be a Historical Jesus scholar, or anyone else who takes Jesus seriously.

]]> By: rodie https://staging2.theplaylist.net/paul-verhoeven-trying-to-get-an-adaptation-of-his-book-jesus-of-nazareth-off-the-ground-20110425/#comment-99202 Fri, 13 May 2016 14:41:33 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2011/more/uncategorized/paul-verhoeven-trying-to-get-an-adaptation-of-his-book-jesus-of-nazareth-off-the-ground-119026/#comment-99202 Not to go too off-topic, but The Jesus Seminar is not devoted to getting as accurate a picture of Jesus as possible. It\’s a group that already has a clear view of the \”historical\” Jesus they want to promote so that each of their theories and evidences are filtered through this lens.

]]> By: What?? https://staging2.theplaylist.net/paul-verhoeven-trying-to-get-an-adaptation-of-his-book-jesus-of-nazareth-off-the-ground-20110425/#comment-99203 Fri, 13 May 2016 14:41:33 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2011/more/uncategorized/paul-verhoeven-trying-to-get-an-adaptation-of-his-book-jesus-of-nazareth-off-the-ground-119026/#comment-99203 How did you miss this… About 2 years ago this was a huge headline!?!?

]]> By: Sandro https://staging2.theplaylist.net/paul-verhoeven-trying-to-get-an-adaptation-of-his-book-jesus-of-nazareth-off-the-ground-20110425/#comment-99204 Fri, 13 May 2016 14:41:33 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2011/more/uncategorized/paul-verhoeven-trying-to-get-an-adaptation-of-his-book-jesus-of-nazareth-off-the-ground-119026/#comment-99204 This is his passion project, but financing was always the problem obviously. He did an extensive three hour interview last summer on Dutch television, where he talked about this. In addition to the projects mentioned above, he also was developing a noir about the Mexican drug war.

]]> By: Mark https://staging2.theplaylist.net/paul-verhoeven-trying-to-get-an-adaptation-of-his-book-jesus-of-nazareth-off-the-ground-20110425/#comment-99205 Fri, 13 May 2016 14:41:33 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2011/more/uncategorized/paul-verhoeven-trying-to-get-an-adaptation-of-his-book-jesus-of-nazareth-off-the-ground-119026/#comment-99205 I\’d love to see a treatment of the historical Jesus, not the mythological Jesus invented afterwards. Let\’s hope Verhoeven can drum up the funding.

]]> By: bobmorton https://staging2.theplaylist.net/paul-verhoeven-trying-to-get-an-adaptation-of-his-book-jesus-of-nazareth-off-the-ground-20110425/#comment-99206 Fri, 13 May 2016 14:41:33 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2011/more/uncategorized/paul-verhoeven-trying-to-get-an-adaptation-of-his-book-jesus-of-nazareth-off-the-ground-119026/#comment-99206 i saw both boobs and bullets in black book.

]]> By: JeanRobie https://staging2.theplaylist.net/paul-verhoeven-trying-to-get-an-adaptation-of-his-book-jesus-of-nazareth-off-the-ground-20110425/#comment-99207 Fri, 13 May 2016 14:41:33 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2011/more/uncategorized/paul-verhoeven-trying-to-get-an-adaptation-of-his-book-jesus-of-nazareth-off-the-ground-119026/#comment-99207 He also was working with writer Jean Claude Carrier on a Jesus movie. I think Carrier got as far as a treatment that was rejected by Sony, Verhoeven\’s home at the time.

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