The increasingly theocratic appearance of the USA (at least those of us on the outside), coupled with the inexplicable success of <i>The Da Vinci Code</i>, is having some interesting knock-on effects, such as two (so far) anti-Jesus flicks, both from the same director, Brian Fleming:

<a href="http://www.thegodmovie.com/" target="new"><i>The God Who Wasn't There</i></a> deconstructs the mythical Jesus, presumably demonstrating his composite nature, incoporporating aspects of older solar deities including Mithras, Osiris and the Phrygian Attis.

Fleming, himself an ex-evangelical Christian, is also working on a fictionalised version of the story, <a href="http://www.thebeastmovie.com/about/index.html" target="new" ><i>The Beast</i></a>.

It's unlikely either of these will get much in the way of a public airing in the USA, but who knows what devilry might ride in on Da Vinci's coat tails....

(Thanks Mark Blacklock!)