Make My Movie

NZFC / NZ On Air / nzherald.co.nz present... the MAKE MY MOVIE project. Our proud history of profound, progressive & potty thinking: Splittng the Atom / Women Getting the Vote / the Zorb and now we have another world first: the MAKE MY MOVIE project

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The Reluctant Messiah

A “Bigger Than Ben Hur Productions” FILM
WRITTEN BY Andrew M. Bell

Daz Capital courts controversy through the amoral way he claws his way up from poverty to head a global corporation. Even the circumstances of his birth are shrouded in mystery. Daz's ruthless brand of capitalism brings him into conflict with the beautiful, privileged, headstrong environmental activist, Anna Kissed.
Daz has lied, cheated and done all sorts of dirty deals, even had opponents killed, in his quest for wealth and power. But Anna's smarts and beauty captivate Daz and he is determined to seduce her.
However, before his conquest of Anna can start in earnest, Daz suffers a heart attack while receiving oral sex from his mistress, Ava Rice. While the paramedics are attempting to revive Daz, he has an out-of-body experience in which he meets God. Just as the paramedics revive Daz, a miscommunication leaves him thinking that he is the reincarnation of Jesus Christ.
Daz realises he must turn his life around 180 degrees and begin the second mission of Christ on earth. But he has a lot to learn and things don't go smoothly at all. He realises that he has made a lot of enemies who see his transformation as phony or as an opportunity for them to exact revenge on Daz.
Since Daz's about-face, Anna Kissed has inveigled her way into Daz's life, but, gradually, as Daz attempts to be more morally impeccable, Anna's morality begins to blur.
Who will triumph? How will it all end? Badly or magnificently? What dark secrets will surface into the light Daz attempts to spread?