Pope Benedict Biopic in the Works

One of the comic books I read quite a few times as a kid was Marvel's Pope John Paul II story. Seriously. Here's a link. For an unlikely comic, it's pretty compelling and traces his life as a young man and priest, his elevation to become Pope, and culminates around the 1981 assassination attempt on his life.?

Now we're in the age of biopics, there's news reports that German producers are developing a biopic of Pope Benedict XVI after acquiring the rights to an upcoming biography of the Pope by the Bavarian author of three best-selling interview books with the pontiff.

Producers Marcus Mende and Peter Weckert have said the film will cover all areas of Joseph Ratzinger's life and work from his birth on Easter night in 1927 in Marktl am Inn in Bavaria to his pontificate today.?

Personally I'm hoping that this isn't the usual TV-special treatment we see too often with this material, but a genuine theatrical biopic that has a potential beyond the invested audience. Emilio Estevez's pilgrimage film The Way was?one of my favourite cinematic experiences of 2012, so here's hoping these producers share similar lofty standards in bringing this to the big screen.

Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1926360/news/1926360/

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