US EditionNicolas Cage's 'The Carpenter's Son' Turns an Apocryphal Text About Jesus' Youth Into a Horror Film
The supernatural thriller adapts a second-century apocryphal text exploring young Jesus's temptations, with Nicolas Cage starring as Joseph and historical research guiding the script.
- On Friday, Lotfy Nathan, writer-director, opens The Carpenter's Son, an adaptation of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas starring Nicolas Cage, FKA twigs, and Noah Jupe.
- Years earlier, Nicolas Cage had read the apocryphal text about Jesus' childhood, and Nathan began shaping it into a screenplay after his father introduced it.
- Scholars note the Paidika reads as episodic episodes from Jesus's childhood ages 5 to 12, including the clay birds episode, despite lacking a conventional narrative arc.
- Cage urged viewers to see the movie before judging and defended the filmmakers' intentions, stressing nobody wanted to offend and the film was made with care despite the American Family Association's petition.
- By adding a Satan storyline, Lotfy Nathan filled gaps left by the brief apocryphal Paidika and The Carpenter's Son joins films like The Young Messiah and Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ.
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Nicolas Cage's 'The Carpenter's Son' turns an apocryphal text about Jesus' youth into a horror film
Filmmaker Lotfy Nathan has turned the apocryphal Infancy Gospel of Thomas into a supernatural thriller called “The Carpenter’s Son,” starring Nicolas Cage.
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