Drew Heriot, director of the highly successful “The Secret” documentary, has come on board to helm the new controversial film that will center on the early, missing years of Jesus of Nazareth, aka Jesus Christ or Jesus the Messiah.
“The Aquarian Gospel” will look at Jesus age 13 to 30. Little to nothing is known of those years in the life of a person that has literally changed the way countless millions have viewed the world, life, death, the afterlife and the future of humanity over the last 2000 years. The Western calendar is even influenced by the life of Jesus, being divided to before his birth and after his birth. The story will chronicle Jesus’ journeys from Israel through India, Tibet, Persia, Greece and Egypt as he encounters people of all creeds, classes and faiths and how these influenced his own world view and later teachings.
The film has a budget of close to $15 million dollars and will be shot using the same kind of hi-def format used to film the highly successful Frank Miller/Zack Snyder movie “300.”
Like Mel Gibson’s “Passion,” “Aquarian Gospel” is sure to spark a flame of protests, demands for banning and marches for and against it from various groups before it ever sees the light of day.
To add a feel of the real to the project Heriot will use actors from the different regions portrayed in the movie. He also plans on casting certain prominent modern-day worldwide spiritual leaders in cameo roles to play important historical and religious figures that Jesus encountered in his journeys.
The problem with this kind of film is that, because it will be filmed in such a “realistic” manner, many people will take its speculation for facts. And it is all guesswork and speculation since there are no verified historical facts about Jesus at all. It is fitting that you are covering this film on Slice of Sci-Fi. This film will be “genre” because it is a fantasy film.
Exactly Lisa 😉
Yes Lisa, but the same could be said about the New Testament itself. There was no photography or sound-recording in Roman Judea. That somebody like Jesus indeed existed has been confirmed from Roman sources. But modern ideas of exactly what he did and said come almost entirely from the Bible — and no-one can honestly claim the bible writers were neutral reporters!
After Emperor Constantine took over Christianity he held the Council of Nicea. It was at Nicea that the Bible as we know it today finally came together. Anybody found possessing scriptures portraying Jesus and his teachings in a different way was put to death by Caesar’s orders.
The Gnostic version of Christianity has him saying and teaching things that sound very much like Indian philosophy. Also, this concept of a homeless monk wandering around with his twelve disciples is a ditto version of a Hindu sanyasi and his disciples. The beginning of the Gospel of John (In the beginning was the WORD) sounds like a plagiarism of the beginning of a Hindu Upanishad.”AUM. This was the Word that was with Brahma in the beginning.”
I agree that all the evidence for Jesus’ years in India is circumstantial. But neither can anyone really “prove” that the gospels’ accounts are truthful. Ultimately it all goes back to belief.
I was raised a catholic but I was turned off by the sub human behavior of the priests that I was in contact with during my youth. I was open to spiritual guidance. A friend gave me a copy of the book The Aquarian Gospel . I thought, Oh!, another one of those “somebody’s cooked up version of the life of Christ”. So I let my gut feeling guide me. The story I read when I allowed the book to just fall open, touched me deeply. It was sweet, simple and as a result rang true for me so I kept reading. I decided to read the Aquarian Gospel, a little at a time as a spiritual guide. I chose it because of it’s simplicity, practicality and usefullness.
If someone could have spoken to me the way the scripture in the book did, then I would not have needed the book. Now, I no longer read or need to read the book. The simple words of love told through simple stories touched my heart and then touched my life and then many many people. You see I worked as a youth worker for twenty five years and I counselled people about how to trust your own heart and take the next step that feels right for you and not to let anyone take away your belief in yourself. That is all that Jesus did and that is the sum of the message in the Aquarian Gospel. To know that you are not alone, that you are guided, loved and protected and that all that is required is to stay positive, gratefull and not judgemental, in order to have a life of joy.
I believe the point here is, not to complicate things but to keep them simple and that is the only way to real peace and happiness. I hope I get to see the movie soon! Thank you for the opportunity!