{"id":4225,"date":"2007-02-17T14:31:33","date_gmt":"2007-02-17T19:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2007\/02\/17\/opus-dei-you-talkin-to-me\/"},"modified":"2007-02-17T14:31:33","modified_gmt":"2007-02-17T19:31:33","slug":"opus-dei-you-talkin-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2007\/02\/opus-dei-you-talkin-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Opus Dei &#8211; You talkin&#039; to me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bi\">A spokesman in Rome said yesterday that Opus Dei was collaborating in the production of a full-length feature film on the life of its founder, Saint Josemar&iacute;a Escriv&aacute; de Balaguer. The producers said they were hoping to enlist Antonio Banderas and Robert De Niro for the leading roles. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">Opus Dei&#8217;s spokesman denied a report in the Italian daily La Repubblica, which quoted a source close to the producers as saying Opus Dei had put up &quot;several tens of millions of dollars&quot; in a bid to re-burnish its image.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">&quot;Opus Dei is not funding the film, but it would be a consultant to the project,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">A spokeswoman for the producers, Lux Vide, said: &quot;For the big parts, we would like De Niro and Banderas. But I say &#8216;would like&#8217; because there are no contracts yet.&quot;<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">Rome-based Lux Vide has made several big-budget religious films, including a made-for-TV biopic on the late John Paul II starring Jon Voight and Christopher Lee.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/religion\/Story\/0,,2015201,00.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/article.png\" width=\"76\" height=\"26\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spokesman in Rome said yesterday that Opus Dei was collaborating in the production of a full-length feature film on the life of its founder, Saint Josemar&iacute;a Escriv&aacute; de Balaguer.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}