According to MTV Movies Blog, despite John Turturro’s years of insistence that Big Lebowski filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen should pen a spin-off movie for his memorable Jesus character, the brothers don’t see it happening anytime soon. “That movie has more of an enduring fascination for other people than it does for us,” Joel said as he metaphorically stuck a “piece” up loyal Jesus fans’ collective ass and pulled the f–ing trigger ’til it goes…”click.” So, somewhat sad news, but just FYI: a quick perusal of YouTube reveals plenty of DIY versions of “The Big Lebowski Jesus scene” — so many that they’d probably equal a full-length (horrible) film if cobbled together. I also enjoyed the following unofficial music video for Muse’s “Hysteria.”
Just for fun, we want to know if you’d be more likely to watch a Jesus movie than SNL’s in-production feature film based on the MacGruber sketches. Or! Maybe Hollywood should just combine the two and provide us with a sure-to-be-religious experience: Will Forte Finds Jesus.
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Eight year olds Dude.
MacGruber is barely entertaining for a 30 second sketch, and they think they can make a decent feature film out of it?!!!
I am not sure I would want to see either. I mean on the one hand a Macgruber movie would almost certainly suck. But on the other hand while a Cohen brothers Jesus movie might turn out good, it might take away from a bit of the coolness of The Big Lebowski to know that they made a spin-off movie.
I thought loyal Jesus fans were against having objects inserted into their collective a@@es (not that it hasn’t happened MANY times in the past and into the future. Just sayin’.
I don’t care about a Magruber movie, not going to see it. I love The Big Lebowski, but I’m not sure a full length movie about the Jesus would work, even with the Coens directing it. Maybe a prequel about his time up in Chino.