![]() ![]() We watched a lot of those Hollywood movies, like King of Kings, that gave us a way into the parody. We looked at the one with the very strange stories that had been cut out of the Bible, which is really wild. We did about three or four weeks of research where we read the Dead Sea Scrolls and books about the Bible. ![]() “It was virgin territory, which is great for comedy. “When we got back to London, there was a Chinese meal, and John was particularly keen on exploring the subject of religion,” Idle said. ![]() But on further thought, the rest of the Pythons- John Cleese, Michael Palin, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones, and Terry Gilliam-began to consider this a rather splendid idea. He replied off-the-cuff: “ Jesus Christ: Lust for Glory.” It got a big laugh. While celebrating the opening of Monty Python and the Holy Grail at a party in New York, Idle told me, he was asked about the team’s next movie. In the beginning was the joke, and it was good. ![]()
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