Alexandre Aja wants Seth Rogen as Jesus

Posted on January 22, 2009
Filed Under Actors, Adaptation, Directors, Rumors

I just read a piece about Seth Rogen and since the guy is funny as… Well, it’s always a pleasure to watch him doing his stuff. So, I was thinking, why not let everyone in on the news? See how friendly I am? Our friends over at Dark Horizons reports that horror director Alexandre Aja is considering a big screen version of Didier van Cauwelaert’s satirical novel “The Gospel According to Jimmy”.

What’s the plot? “You have to imagine, a few years from now, the Republicans want to get back in the White House, and the only thing that they find is like an old cloning project … to clone Jesus from a blood cell on the Shroud of Turin. And one subject had survived, and he’s fixing pools in L.A., named Jimmy. And they’re going to find him and ask him to come back and help them to get back to power.”

Who’d make a good Jesus? Aja thinks that Seth Rogen would be perfect casting. The project is still in early stages as a writer is being sought to adapt the property. Seth Rogen as a “blood descendant” to Jesus? Well, actually AS Jesus… To me, this sounds like a perfect Rogen-project. In the words of David Starsky: “Do it! Do it!“

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