Nicolas Cage<\/a> has once again baffled and excited film fans with the trailer for his latest movie \u2013 a horror film<\/a> about Jesus<\/a>.<\/p>\n Cage<\/a>, 61, plays Biblical figure Joseph in The Carpenter’s Son, an upcoming reimagining of The Infancy Gospel of Thomas, an apocryphal gospel about the childhood of the religious figure.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat awaits us when we turn at last to death?\u201d Cage says in the brief preview of the movie. \u201cLet my faith endure,\u201d he adds as disturbing images, including a crucifixion, fill the screen. \u201cFaith. My only strength to bear against the devil itself.\u201d<\/p>\n Elsewhere, Cage says that his son, known as The Boy, \u201cbears a power I cannot understand. A power I cannot contain\u201d.<\/p>\n The trailer has piqued fans curiosity about what a Biblical horror film will be like, with Cage, known for his eccentric performances<\/a>, only adding to the intrigue.<\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n Nicolas Cage in \u2018The Carpenter’s Son\u2019 (Magnolia Pictures)<\/p>\n \u201cI love writers who take risks with stories,\u201d wrote one person. \u201cIt will probably be a bad movie, but I\u2019ll watch it anyway just to see how they tackle something as bold as telling the story of Jesus\u2019s teen years. It\u2019s such a brilliant idea.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOk, maybe I\u2019m a bad Christian, but I think a sort of body horror introspective of Jesus (and Joseph) grappling with his extraordinary life-giving and healing powers, plus being tempted by Satan, is extremely interesting and could be very thought provoking,\u201d added another eager film fan.<\/p>\n \u201cSeated, can\u2019t wait for the discourse,\u201d wrote a third viewer, noting that the film might cause some controversy.<\/p>\n \u201cNicolas Cage as Jesus\u2019 stepdad is not on my 2025 bingo card,\u201d joked a fourth.<\/p>\n Young British actor Noah Jupe, 20, plays Jesus in the film, while singer-songwriter FKA Twigs, 37, will play his mother Mary. Fellow British star Isla Johnston, 18, will play the film\u2019s antagonist, mysteriously called The Stranger.<\/p>\n The film has been directed by Lofty Nathan, an Egyptian-born British-American filmmaker, whose previous works include 12 O\u2019Clock Boys (2013) and Harka (2022).<\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n Noah Jupe as The Boy in ‘The Carpenter’s Son’ (Magnolia Pictures)<\/p>\n Unconventional Biblical films have previously been met with protests, most notably Martin Scorsese\u2019s The Last Temptation of Christ. Willem Dafoe<\/a> plays Jesus in the 1988 drama which ends with Christ coming down from the cross and being tempted by Satan.<\/p>\n It depicts Jesus as having a yearning for family life and having sexual interests, and was met with much controversy when it was released, especially from the Church.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s just strange, in a world of slasher films and porn, that people got so upset about this, because it\u2019s based on a novel and, broadly speaking, they\u2019re changing the classic story a little bit to consider the character of Jesus in a different way, that\u2019s all,\u201d said Dafoe earlier this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not this plot to overthrow or change religious thought. It\u2019s a consideration, another way of looking at the human aspect of Jesus, as opposed to the divine part.\u201d<\/p>\n The Carpenter\u2019s Son will be released in cinemas on November 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":272292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[171,53,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-272291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115305500503378772","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Nicolas](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-02-at-11-19-26.png\")
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