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Subscribe RSSInterview with Alan Ronald, the director of Jesus Vs. the Messiah
Posted May 11, 2009
F.A. You wrote and directed Jesus Vs. The Messiah, which is now a big independent hit and one of the best-selling films on Film Annex. Can you tell us a little bit about how this project began and developed?
A.R. The movie began its life as a joke. Some would say it has remained that way. I came up with the title ‘Jesus versus The Messiah’ on the way home from the pub and announced to my friends that it would be my next feature film. Then I tried to forget about it, but people kept asking me when I was going to make it. Eventually I succumbed to peer pressure and wrote a first draft of the screenplay. It was a very over the top affair with fistfights in the vacuum of space and a lightning battle over the Thames. I figured if I pushed it into the realms of the impossible, then the idea would run its course. However after writing the first draft it struck me that although it would be an impossible film to make without a huge budget, the characters and ideas were actually quite interesting. That was when I started to develop it into the film it is now, and one that would be possible to make with the resources we had access to... I still miss the space fight mind you.
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