Just in. I guess the below filmmaker will show proof in the up and coming new movie. I wonder what kind of response will the public will give to the showing? Will be experience an influx of Muslim recruits?



February 23, 2007 6:55
Jesus: Tales from the Crypt
Posted by Tim McGirk
Brace yourself. James Cameron, the man who brought you 'The Titanic' is back with another blockbuster. This time, the ship he's sinking is Christianity.

In a new documentary, Producer Cameron and his director, Simcha Jacobovici, make the starting claim that Jesus wasn't resurrected --the cornerstone of Christian faith-- and that his burial cave was discovered near Jerusalem. And, get this, Jesus sired a son with Mary Magdelene.

No, it's not a re-make of "The Da Vinci Codes'. It's supposed to be true.

Let's go back 27 years, when Israeli construction workers were gouging out the foundations for a new building in the industrial park in the Talpiyot, a Jerusalem suburb. of Jerusalem. The earth gave way, revealing a 2,000 year old cave with 10 stone caskets. Archologists were summoned, and the stone caskets carted away for examination. It took 20 years for experts to decipher the names on the ten tombs. They were: Jesua, son of Joseph, Mary, Mary, Mathew, Jofa and Judah, son of Jesua.
Israel's prominent archeologist Professor Amos Kloner didn't associate the crypt with the New Testament Jesus. His father, after all, was a humble carpenter who couldn't afford a luxury crypt for his family. And all were common Jewish names.

There was also this little inconvenience that a few miles away, in the old city of Jerusalem, Christians for centuries had been worshipping the empty tomb of Christ at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Christ's resurrection, after all, is the main foundation of the faith, proof that a boy born to a carpenter's wife in a manger is the Son of God.

But film-makers Cameron and Jacobovici claim to have amassed evidence through DNA tests, archeological evidence and Biblical studies, that the 10 coffins belong to Jesus and his family.

Ever the showman, (Why does this remind me of the impresario in another movie,"King Kong", whose hubris blinds him to the dangers of an angry and very large ape?) Cameron is holding a New York press conference on Monday at which he will reveal three coffins, supposedly those of Jesus of Nazareth, his mother Mary and Mary Magdalene. News about the film, which will be shown soon on Discovery Channel, Britain's Channel 4, Canada's Vision, and Israel's Channel 8, has been a hot blog topic in the Middle East (check out a personal favorite: Israelity Bites) Here in the Holy Land, Biblical Archeology is a dangerous profession. This 90-minute documentary is bound to outrage Christians and stir up a titanic debate between believers and skeptics. Stay tuned.
--Tim McGirk/Jerusalem

Any idea when it airs?

Manntis may offer a clue as when film will air. It's showing in Canada as well.

They will show us what they have this Monday, in New York.

Manntis may offer a clue as when film will air. It's showing in Canada as well.

They will show us what they have this Monday, in New York.

Yupp, us Canadians know exactly when programs will air in this country. We have, after all, only one television channel.

lol
didnt know you were a canucky!
I thought manntis claimed he was in the media business in canada

"The Lost Tomb of Jesus," produced by Oscar-winning director James Cameron and scheduled to air March 4 on the Discovery Channel, argues that 10 small caskets discovered in 1980 in a Jerusalem suburb may have held the bones of Jesus and his family.
http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/TECH/science/02/26/jesus.sburial.ap/story.caskets.ap.jpg

Cameron told NBC'S TODAY show that statisticians found "in the range of a couple of million to one in favor of it being them".

A couple of million to one. WOW it must be true.

this is going to be lame, its probably going to be some rich jew claiming to be Jesus. and wanted to be buried like that just to play around with whoever found him in the future

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It's going to be a tough sell. I was expecting the smoking gun. Perhaps it is. The correct puzzle sequence is there; Jesus, Mary, and Magdalene within the time frame. A little too early for Czar's thumbs up. I will wait and see.

I love the title of the thread: Apparant Proof Jesus Died: Film will Reveal

:D

hi YZF
This thread is about the up coming movie. The debate might be better suited in the religion section, which our friend $100 started.

I can't wait to view the show. how 'bout you?

will air tonight 9:00 est.

will air tonight 9:00 est.

As if someone is going to destroy the fabric of christian faith on cable tv on a Sunday?

You don't think someone like mwah would want such a thing to happen on a Sunday now do ya?

You don't think someone like mwah would want such a thing to happen on a Sunday now do ya?

Ha, I don't doubt that for one second...

However, if they even remotely came close to saying they knew for sure that those were the bones of "Jesus", that'd be on CNN all morning like it was 9/11 all over again.

However, if they even remotely came close to saying they knew for sure that those were the bones of "Jesus", that'd be on CNN all morning like it was 9/11 all over again.

I'm afraid you're right.

I think they are on the right track and delivered enough awareness to motivate the right people. This won't go away unless more discoveries point the other way.

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didnt know you were a canucky!
I thought manntis claimed he was in the media business in canada

Film & television, yes. And Ark is referencing the CBC, the national channel everyone gets with or without cable.

That's an interesting line of work. Any storys of stars you rubbed shoulders with? What do you do?

Started as a screenwriter, and still do some scripting though now I'm usually the director or executive producer. Last summer I acted in a war film as a favour to the producer, but I prefer being behind the camera. I've the usual war stories of brushes with celebrities, including a few surreal encounters with Vince Vaugn (at a bar) and Christina Ricci (at a house party) but for the most part they're people like anyone else - just with a lot more disposable income.

I can write, it seems, when I am experiencing some sort of hardship and loneliness. Not in a discipline fashion, mind ya. Just enough to move someone. Any other time, I'm not interested. Although my wife insist I write to her like I use to when I was courting her. But what's the point, right? "I already got ya, sucka!"

But to write for the arts, like what you did or are doing, is impressive. And I suppose having an eye for directing itself has to require some sort of imagination, does it not? Cool stuff!

I hear that as a Producer, you have to put up some sort of capital in hopes of a nice royalty. Or do you direct where other people's money go? Either way, it's all good.

I rarely produce American productions, where it's more common for the executive producer to raise most of the financing. In those cases I'm a director, writer, or both. In the Canadian system where up to 70% of the funding can come from government sources, I've been brought in as producer on projects already underway - the production manager and accountants look after the money coming in, the executive producer watch how its spent, and the producer keeps the writer, director, etc. on task.

For example, in November I was brought in on a documentary about the 2006 World Cup in Germany. 260 hours of footage shot, but they were still having trouble finding the 'story'. I watched some of the footage, wrote a treatment centered around 3 of the key individuals on the Canadian team, and turned it over to the writers. I became Story Editor and Associate Producer, making sure they wrote a script based on my treatment and writing the deals which were then turned over to Jan, the distributor, who also distributed the Romeo Dallaire doc Shake hands With The Devil.

But this has little to do with the thread. PM me sometime and I'll tell you more about it.

will do
thx

Nope. That would have been when I was Evander Holyfield's guest in Vegas - after he agreed to play himself in a film I wrote - and watched his fight against Lennox Lewis from 20 ft. away from the ring, next to Matt Perry and Bruce Willis who'd come fresh from filming The Whole Nine yards.

Unfortunately the film went into turnaround when the Canadian government decided it didn't have enough CanCon points, but I still have the experience to remember.