Oh My Godyssey!

Just last night, Husband Mark and I watched the first few minutes of a "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" on some cable channel. I jokingly mused that it would be cool if someone came up with "Jesus: the Legendary Journeys". Same concept, but with Jesus instead of Hercules. Mark thought that the very concept was blasphemous because the show features powerful Greek gods. I pointed out that Jesus would be fighting against false gods. Emphasis on the word "false". He said it didn't matter. Potato. Po-tah-to. We finally called the whole thing off.

Roughly 24 hours later, I learned that somebody did indeed come up with the idea of "Jesus: The Legendary Journeys". At the very least, he came up with the concept. Comic book artist/writer Rob Liefeld  came up with a one-shot comic book called THE GODYSSEY. In it, Jesus Christ went hand-to-hand against Zeus and the Greek gods. The big news is that Liefeld's THE GODYSSEY is in development as a big-time Hollywood movie project.

This is how Variety describes the project:

Story centers on the gods of the grand pantheon, including Zeus, Buddha, Ra and Pangu, who must come together to fight a legion of fallen gods in an epic battle over mankind.

Spinoff Online notes:

That description does sound a bit different from the issue that opens with Zeus mocking Jesus on the cross, which leads into a fight.

THE GODYSSEY wasn't Liefeld's last effort at inserting Christianity and Biblical scenarios into his work. Back in late 2010, I shared a web-comic that he was creating that featured Lazarus' return from the dead and the zombie invasion of Jerusalem.