{"id":2926,"date":"2011-04-24T12:46:07","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T19:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/04\/audiences-who-flocked-to-mel-gibson%e2%80%99s-film-would-consider-frey%e2%80%99s-vision-to-be-blasphemous\/"},"modified":"2012-03-21T14:14:13","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T21:14:13","slug":"audiences-who-flocked-to-mel-gibson%e2%80%99s-film-would-consider-frey%e2%80%99s-vision-to-be-blasphemous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/24\/audiences-who-flocked-to-mel-gibson%e2%80%99s-film-would-consider-frey%e2%80%99s-vision-to-be-blasphemous\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Audiences who flocked to Mel Gibson\u2019s film would consider Frey\u2019s vision to be blasphemous&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2011\/04\/hollywood-religion-more-controversy-to-come-if-new-films-anger-the-faithful\/\" target=\"_blank\">from Deadline New York<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2011\/04\/hollywood-religion-more-controversy-to-come-if-new-films-anger-the-faithful\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Hollywood &amp; Religion: More Controversy To Come If New Films Anger The Faithful\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Hollywood &amp; Religion: More Controversy To Come If New Films Anger The Faithful<\/a><\/h1>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 11px; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold\">By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/new-york\/\" title=\"Visit MIKE FLEMING\u2019s website\" rel=\"external\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; text-decoration: none; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">MIKE FLEMING<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/mike-fleming-thumbnail.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"100\" alt=\"Mike Fleming\" style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: initial; float: left; border-style: none; margin: 0px\" \/> &#8212; Hollywood agency WME will soon shop the movie rights to\u00a0<em style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: italic; font-size: 14px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">The Final Testament of the Holy Bible<\/em>, a James Frey book published this weekend that imagines what the Second Coming of Christ would be like in contemporary America and depicts\u00a0Jesus Christ\u00a0as bisexual and promiscuous.\u00a0Frey wrote the controversial\u00a0<em style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: italic; font-size: 14px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">A Million Little Pieces<\/em>, a memoir that turned out to be semi-fictional.\u00a0Though his new book is getting strong reviews, there is no getting around the fact that audiences who flocked to Mel Gibson\u2019s film would consider Frey\u2019s vision to be blasphemous. The book\u00a0launched with a lavishly illustrated limited edition print run of 10,000 books &#8212; selling for $50 each\u00a0&#8211;published by Gagosian Gallery. It will then be published published widely through e-book for the Kindle, Nook, iPad, Kobo and Sony ereader.\u00a0Frey tells me he&#8217;s &#8220;open&#8221; to his book being shopped for films.\u00a0When I asked who would be the movie audience for it, Frey says,\u00a0\u201cWhen I write, I don\u2019t think that way.\u00a0I wrote a book about what I think it might be like if the long awaited Messiah were alive today, who that person would be, what he would believe in, how he would live, how society would recognize him and deal with him,\u201d Frey told me. \u201cI spent 15 years thinking about it, and about how to do it, and what story to tell. I believe that the Messiah would not eschew the use of alcohol, nor restrict his ability and willingness to love\u00a0based on what they do for a living or their gender.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2011\/04\/hollywood-religion-more-controversy-to-come-if-new-films-anger-the-faithful\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to read at DeadlineHollywood.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Deadline New York Hollywood &amp; Religion: More Controversy To Come If New Films Anger The Faithful By\u00a0MIKE FLEMING &#8212; Hollywood agency WME will soon shop the movie rights to\u00a0The Final Testament of the Holy Bible, a James Frey book published this weekend that imagines what the Second Coming of Christ would be like in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}