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September 13, 2009

Hollywood Screenwriter Making Catholic Movie

It is certainly going to be interesting to see how screenwriter Joe Eszterhas handles the script for a planned movie on the Virgin of Guadalupe.

It is going to be interesting because Eszterhas is a tough-as-nails, face-like-a-fist (a description he himself cites) type of fellow who wrote such unChristian or at least carnal movies as Basic Instinct, Flashdance, Jagged Edge, and Showgirls (along with thirteen others).

Time once called him "America's king of sex and violence," but now Eszterhas refuses to write scripts that promote sex and violence and has been seeking for a while to do a movie glorifying God.

This much can be said: the movie on Guadalupe, now in the works and announced in August, will make news and if it stays true to the actual story (which needs no embellishment) could turn out to be a potent testimony...

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