Joe Eszterhas is Writing About a Virgin Now

God love Joe Eszterhas.  The guy just can’t shake the fact that he’s written some of the sleaziest, most sexual screenplays to ever be produced in Hollywod.  Besides the obvious two (‘Basic Instinct’ and ‘Showgirls’) he’s also put pen to paper on ‘Jagged Edge,’ ‘Sliver,’ and ‘Jade.’  Not that the guy cares he has this reputation.  In fact, he doesn’t much care about what other people think in general.

So throw out your obvious jokes about Eszterhas going back to his Final Draft to write a screenplay about the Virgin of Guadalupe.  In what Eszterhas is calling a “labor of love,” he is penning a script about the 16th account of the Virgin Mary appearing on the cloak of a simple peasant.  The image has lived on as an icon for centures and is Mexico’s most popular religious image.

No word has come out about story details, whether the movie will be about the image appearing, its impact on the religious community in Latin America, or some other story pertaining to the Virgin image altogether.

Eszterhas recently returned to the world of film after nearly ten years of retirment.  He returned in 2006 with the Hungarian film, ‘Children of Glory.’

Source: Variety