[Alex Murphy]

The life of Ulrich Zwingli will be brought to the big screens, confirmed C-Films, a company which produced films like “Midnight train to Lisbon”...Ulrich Zwingli (1484-1531) was the most well known Reformer of the Swiss city of Zürich, a focus of the Reformation in the country alongside Calvin’s Geneva. The script is being written by journalist Simone Schmid, who is working on historical material of the Reformed Church in Switzerland. The movie’s budget will be 6 million Swiss Francs (about 5 million Euros) and the release is expected for 2018.

[Lee N. Field]

Hmm. Interesting. Zwingli died in battle.

[SoFloFreeper]

Reformation interest.

[Tax-chick]

It could be a good movie. I’m all for a rip-roaring costume drama, as long as the fight scenes are reasonably accurate.

[AnalogReigns]

Here's Zwingli's helmet and sword when he was killed. You can't see it from this angle, but the other side has a big crack in it...evidently from the blow which killed him. I saw this when I visited Zurich in '05, and I recall reading on the display case that only within the last ten years or so the French town--who's troops had won that battle and killed Zwingli in 1531--had finally returned this to Zurich.

Yes, he was a chaplain, but he also fought (it's a big sword) as chaplains did in those days.

The usual statue of Zwingli you see in Switzerland has him holding a sword in one hand and a bible in the other....

[AnalogReigns]

Whoops, I may well have been wrong about him fighting:

^See the crack? ^

"When Zwingli was killed on October 11, 1531, he wore what every Swiss soldier wore, a helmet and a sword. And in spite of Luther’s vile suggestion that Zwingli was a combatant at Kappel-am-Albis, he was in fact not. He never drew that sword. But you can still see the gash in his helmet where he was first stricken and stunned, knocked to the ground, and then lanced through, perishing with Scripture on his lips… ‘do not fear those who can kill the body…’"

-Dr. Jim West, Church historian, citing contemporary sources, from his website: https://zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com/about-2/

^Always have wanted a cap like that^