{"id":3042,"date":"2011-06-30T13:54:54","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T20:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/06\/ben-zion-to-the-big-screen\/"},"modified":"2012-03-21T14:16:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T21:16:05","slug":"ben-zion-to-the-big-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/30\/ben-zion-to-the-big-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Zion To The Big Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2011\/06\/james-frey\u2019s-bronx-jesus-will-ascend-to-silver-screen\/\" target=\"_blank\">from The Observer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>James Frey\u2019s Bronx Jesus Will Ascend to Silver Screen<\/h1>\n<p><em>Christine Vachon\u2019s Killer Films to Produce, Frey to Adapt<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/author\/emily-witt\/\" class=\"url fn n\" title=\"View All Posts by Emily Witt\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: bolder; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: #8c8e8a; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Emily Witt<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/files\/2011\/06\/6343306174569262501435996_45_JFrey_021111-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"6343306174569262501435996_45_JFrey_021111\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" align=\"right\" \/>Christine Vachon\u2019s Killer Films will produce a film adaptation of James Frey\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Final Testament of the Holy Bible<\/em>. In the book, which was released in April, Jesus Christ returns in the form of a bisexual recovering alcoholic named Ben who lives in the Bronx.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with\u00a0<em>The Observer<\/em>, Mr. Frey said that he gave Ms. Vachon a copy of the book six months before it was released, but that they had their first meeting on the project two weeks ago. He will adapt the screenplay himself but declined to suggest who he hopes will direct or star in the movie. When asked to give us an idea of what movies he had in mind, however, he listed a round-up notable for what he calls their \u201cheavy, heavy emotional impact\u201d but which some might refer to as a certain gross-out quality: Lars Von Triers\u2019s\u00a0<em>Breaking the Waves<\/em>, Darren Aronofsky\u2019s\u00a0<em>Black Swan<\/em>, Larry Clark\u2019s\u00a0<em>Kids<\/em>\u00a0(also produced by Ms. Vachon). He also mentioned Todd Haynes\u2019s\u00a0<em>Velvet Goldmine<\/em>\u00a0(Haynes is a longtime Killer Films collaborator) and Derek Cienfrance\u2019s\u00a0<em>Blue Valentine<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like a lot of emotionally impactful smaller films,\u201d said Mr. Frey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut bigger in their intent and ambition,\u201d Ms. Vachon hastened to add.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not about making 100 million dollars, it\u2019s about making the best thing,\u201d said Mr. Frey.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2011\/06\/james-frey\u2019s-bronx-jesus-will-ascend-to-silver-screen\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full article at The Observer<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Observer James Frey\u2019s Bronx Jesus Will Ascend to Silver Screen Christine Vachon\u2019s Killer Films to Produce, Frey to Adapt By\u00a0Emily Witt Christine Vachon\u2019s Killer Films will produce a film adaptation of James Frey\u2019s\u00a0The Final Testament of the Holy Bible. In the book, which was released in April, Jesus Christ returns in the form [&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":[2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversation-information","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042","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=3042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}