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The unconventional depiction is part of the producers' goal to tell a spiritual story to a secular audience. This wiry, good-natured carpenter and artisan gives cooking pointers to a weary woman in a troubled marriage, sings with Gen-Xers at an outdoor worship service, and invites a nosy mailman into his home for a meal. Goldwyn's Joshua is not the gaunt, bearded, starry-eyed Savior of other films that have depicted Jesus. Tony Goldwyn, whose other major roles include the villains in Ghost and The Pelican Brief, plays Joshua. Murray Abraham as the antagonistic Father Tardone and Giancarlo Giannini as the pope. Epiphany, backed by investor Phillip Anschutz of Denver, says it will produce films with wholesome content-sometimes explicitly Christian, sometimes not. Joshua is the first release of Epiphany Films, a specialty label of Crusader Entertainment, LLC, which was formed in February. Mullen and Mark Schultz, and Point of Grace. Smith, features several original songs by artists such as Jaci Velasquez, Brooks & Dunn, Nicole C. Joshua opened in selected theaters on April 19. It places Joshua, a Christ figure, among the residents of tiny, semirural Auburn. The film is based on the novel Joshua: A Parable for Today by retired Catholic priest Joseph Girzone.
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How does one make a film about Christ for non-Christians? This question presented special challenges for Brad Mirman and Keith Giglio, the screenwriters for Joshua.