Yet Another Jesus Movie?

Film Junk has news that Brian Grazer has set up a deal with Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment to produce Prodigal Son, a romantic comedy about a single mother who goes on a date with a guy that actually turns out to be Jesus Christ.

While he awaits the Apocalypse, Jesus it seems has decided to make a living as an Ikea carpenter. Seriously. The movie is being written by Mimi James and Grazer’s wife Gigi, who apparently had the idea while driving around one night contemplating signs of Armageddon. “You see something basic like Britney Spears showing her crazy monkey to everybody, you find yourself thinking, is this the fall of the Roman Empire?”

Although one’s first instinct would be to see the potential for controversy here, it sounds like they’re going to make it fairly inoffensive and light-hearted in tone. I am guessing it will be similar to something like Bruce Almighty, and I could actually see it being very successful. On the other hand, Kevin Smith’s Dogma did manage to cause quite an uproar, so who knows…