Ray Bradbury told a story about how someone at a studio wanted Judas cut out of the a passion story (The King Of Kings? I read that Mr. Bradbury wrote the narration for it). Such tinkering is not unheard of.
I seem to recall that Mr. Bradbury appealed to a studio head at MGM and said something like, "So all of these Christians are going to go see this movie on Easter and wonder, 'What happened to Judas?'..."
Exactly, does Foxman an others who are going along with his rhetoric think that Christians seeing this movie won't recognize a sanitized version of the GOSPELS? if it is not faithful to the GOSPELS it will have absoloutely no merit to any CHRISTIAN watching it, and it will be no better than THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST.