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"Paul Verhoeven&amp;#039;s Jesus of Nazareth is moving forward. The director has secured funding and a writer for his pet project, reports Deadline.   Muse Productions&amp;#039; Christ Hanley (American Psycho) will finance the film based on the 2010 book Jesus of Nazareth which Verhoeven co-wrote after decades of research on the Biblical figure. Academy Award-winning Pulp Fiction co-writer Roger Avary is adapting the book into a screenplay charting a secular account of the life of Jesus. The story discounts the miraculous events commonly attributed to the life of Christ. The movie is one of several on the horizon based on Biblical figures, with Darren Aronofsky currently moving forward on Noah, and Ridley Scott and Steven Spielberg eyeing adaptations of the life of Moses. Verhoeven&amp;#039;s most recent project was 2006&amp;#039;s Black Book. His classic action film Total Recall has recently been remade, with a reboot of his RoboCop on the way. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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