Just when it seemed like papal intrigue was on the decline (outside of exorcisms) the producers of American Psycho are looking to bring it back. According to THR, Chris Hanley and Edward Pressman have picked up the rights to Richard Hammer‘s controversial book The Vatican Connection. Published in 1983, the book attempts to connect the suspicious death of Pope John Paul I and alleged corruption in the Vatican to the Mafia and the Freemasons. Hanley, Pressman, and co-producers John Penotti (Awake), Jeff Most (The Crow) and Bob DeBrino (Find Me Guilty) plan to turn the novel into a thriller. I was hoping it would be a slapstick comedy, but I guess the premise is laughable enough on its own.
The producers are obviously hoping that they can pick up some of that The Da Vinci Code magic, and I assume some historians and professors are hoping for that as well. Then they can go back to getting speaking gigs where they explain that a work of fiction is fictional.
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The idea that the Vatican is crooked is “laughable”?
Since when?
I second that. I think it’s laughable that you think it’s laughable that the Vatican would be corrupt and have ties to the Mafia. Where have you been?
actually, it’s a very interesting theory, since the bank of vatican
(and, especially, Paul Marcinkus, it’s president by the time of JP I death) is related to a number of suspicions about ties to the italian mobsters (and the murders related to such connections), and was even cited in investigations regarding money laundering in italy in 2010. It might be a very curious movie indeed, if it avoid the more outlandish theories…
Have to agree with the previous posts, there’s really nothing laughable about the Mafia and Freemasons being involved with the lives of billions of people (yet, BILLIONS of people are influenced by the Catholic Church and more specifically, the Pope). It’s intriguing, more than anything.
Pope John Paul I ≠ Pope John Paul II