God, the Screenwriter
May 12th, 2004
Found an interesting story on E! Online. According to Joal Ryan
of E! Online, The IMDB.com database had listed "God" as a contributor to Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ", but then after it was discovered mysteriously disappeared!?!
According to the report, Mel Gibson has said that the film was a result of his vision of the Scripture as seen through "with God's help."
The Internet Movie Database took this to mean that, not unlike Charlie Kaufman of a year ago, another entity aided in the development of the project. Here's what the article said:
Early Wednesday morning, the site had God--the God, capital "G"--listed as a credited contributor to The Passion. By Wednesday noon, the credit was gone, but God's own personal IMDb.com page remained. By Wednesday night, that was gone, too.
Before being deleted, God got props for writing the "novel"--presumably, the Bible--upon which Gibson's devout, if gruesome epic is based.
The Passion was God's lone filmography entry, or at least it was until the Website purged that, too, leaving The Big Wannabe Screenwriter in the Sky with not much more than a fancy blank page.
As far as the filmmakers are concerned, Gibson and Benedict Fitzgerald are the authors of The Passion, which opened Wednesday. The film does not carry a "based upon" or "from a story suggested by" you-know-who credit.
To read more:
http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,13574,00.html
of E! Online, The IMDB.com database had listed "God" as a contributor to Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ", but then after it was discovered mysteriously disappeared!?!
According to the report, Mel Gibson has said that the film was a result of his vision of the Scripture as seen through "with God's help."
The Internet Movie Database took this to mean that, not unlike Charlie Kaufman of a year ago, another entity aided in the development of the project. Here's what the article said:
Early Wednesday morning, the site had God--the God, capital "G"--listed as a credited contributor to The Passion. By Wednesday noon, the credit was gone, but God's own personal IMDb.com page remained. By Wednesday night, that was gone, too.
Before being deleted, God got props for writing the "novel"--presumably, the Bible--upon which Gibson's devout, if gruesome epic is based.
The Passion was God's lone filmography entry, or at least it was until the Website purged that, too, leaving The Big Wannabe Screenwriter in the Sky with not much more than a fancy blank page.
As far as the filmmakers are concerned, Gibson and Benedict Fitzgerald are the authors of The Passion, which opened Wednesday. The film does not carry a "based upon" or "from a story suggested by" you-know-who credit.
To read more:
http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,13574,00.html
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