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The main thrust of this blog is to chart progress of a film called "The Fashion of the Christ," first written in 2004 around the time when Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ made the idea timely and relevant. The anonymous writer-director instead made an animation called Jaws Versus Jesus, which has been screened and uploaded in various forms, and attempted to shoot a feature in four days with actors who turned out to be in school and working which did not allow for optimal conditions to rehearse and shoot under a time crunch. The footage was made into guitar picks and has at last brought joy to the world. Personal tragedy in 2006 put the "Fashion of the Christ" project in limbo, and then in 2007 the Vatican announced that limbo no longer exists. This effectively freed the project which is now going to begin casting as a low budget satire in Toronto. The role of a false and commercialized Jesus has already been cast and the lead role of Jesus H. Christ the actual, swear-to-God Messiah who confronts the pretender and all that is done in His name will require a black actor who looks 33 and either has a beard or can be given a realistic one. If you know of any as yet undiscovered possible black variation of Jesus who has a certain charisma and something in the eyes let me know so this person can audition. We are talking about a very small scale production but it will be shown around. Other roles to be called for later, but this has to be, um, nailed down first.