Ellen and new partner??
Posted on 09/30/2005 9:20:04 AM PDT by concernedAmerican1
Protesters can claim one more case where protesting has proven effective. The Hollywood remake of the comedy “Oh God!” planned for this summer will not be going anywhere soon.
Last fall, Hollywood announced with some fanfare the news that Jerry Weintraub Productions would be filming the remake which portrays God as a wise-cracking cranky individual full of defects and imperfections. As if that were not bad enough, the so-called Supreme Being was to be played by the avowed lesbian talk show host Ellen DeGeneres!
That was before thousands of protest flyers went out nationwide. Prior to the production of this offensive depiction of our Creator, the America Needs Fatima campaign asked its members to sign and send protest postcards to the film producer, Jerry Weintraub, and its distributor, Warner Brothers.
Since that time, there has been a strange silence over the whole production. The film’s official web page reports absolutely no details about the progress of the filming which was supposed to have taken place this summer.
The mystery perhaps can be explained by the fact that Ellen DeGeneres has just announced that she will not be starring in the film citing a busy schedule and her disappointment with the script. (AP, 09-03-2005)
“The fact is the production is off,” says campaign director Robert E. Ritchie. “After a massive protest by our members, no one wants to talk about it anymore. It’s dead in the water.”
Mr. Ritchie reported that the blasphemous production “Jesus Has Two Mommies,” a theater play that portrayed the Virgin Mary as a lesbian was not shown last Christmas season at its usual venue in Massachusetts after massive protests. Similar results can be seen in other productions where Catholics stood up for God and His Mother. The important thing is for Christians to make their voices heard.
Well, thank goodness for that. It's been keeping me up at night. Thanks for posting this into Breaking News to make sure I could see it and resume sleeping.
If you heard degeneres in "finding nemo", you might think she could be pretty good in the role of "God".
Ms. DeGeneres made a good choice in this instance.
Another remake. Yipee.
Ellen - stick to wearing men's suits and licking pu--y.
How can you play the role convincingly if you don't believe
in Him to begin with?
Good point. However, I highly doubt Hollywood's intention was to portray God in a favorable light or truthful manner. If you remember, Hollywood, didn't want to touch The Passion of the Christ, even though it was a blockbuster movie - so it seems there is a good dose of anti-God in those circles to forgo the porfit they could have capitalized on with a production such as The Passion by Mel Gibson.
There are Christians running around loose that make the Taliban seem rational.
So9
/agreed
Try and have a sense of humor.
I guess everyone should have sent out flyers when Morgan Freeman played god in Bruce Almighty.
If we can't laugh at ourselves who can we laugh at. I bet god would agree.
Let me guess... Ashton Kutcher was going to play the John Denver role.
The original movie was funny and all but hardly worthy of a remake.
Hollyweird...come up with something original.
Ummm... The existing version with George Burns is pefect. Why are they remaking this? Is Hollyweird really that bankrupt in the realm of ideas, or do they just want to pervert the story?
Ellen was great in Nemo. Her voice and delivery were perfect...personally, I can 'hear' her in the role of 'the Almighty'. Maybe Ellen just read the script and was a no go on writing...other than some of the Pixar (aimed at the kids) movies (the Shreks, Nemo, etc.) there really isn't a wealth of comic writing talent in Hollywood. The last couple of supposed comedies I saw fell pretty flat. I'll admit...we rented Monster In Law. Really bad.
I believe that is why they call it acting.
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