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Hollywood to Film 'Missing Years' of Jesus

Posted Nov 19, 07 6:52 PM CST in World,  Arts & Living 

(Newser) – Hollywood is making a new film about the alleged "lost years" of Jesus—an action-adventure tale set in India. "In the film we are looking beyond the canonized gospels to the 'lost' gospels," the producer of Aquarian Gospel tells the Guardian. The film will feature computer animation and a "young and beautiful" princess, but will focus on "the principles that are the bedrock of all the world's great religions."

Due out in 2009, the film draws on new scholarship and stories of Jesus' Indian travels. A Russian doctor claimed proof of the trips in his 1894 book; an Indian scholar says they were recorded on ancient coins. But Christian groups are already blasting the tale, which details stops in monasteries and battles against the caste system. "I do not think it will displace thousands of years of biblical thought," said one.

Source Guardian (UK)

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A chapel in Goa, India. The Catholic church in India dismisses the film as just "Hollywood filmmakers in search of a new audience rather than the truth".   (Shutterstock.com)
Aspects of the story of Jesus were most recently prominently on the big screen in Mel Gibson's 2004 hit "The Passion of the Christ" with James Caviezel.   (© 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment)
Casting is underway on the feature which pursue actors from both Hollywood and Bollywood to perform apocryphal moments in the life of Jesus.   (Public Domain)
Catholic figurines are arranged in this small church in India.   (Shutterstock.com)
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