Josh Lucas, also known as the rich-man’s Matthew McConaughey, has been hired to play a priest in the low-budget thriller, God’s Spy. Lucas will play a Jesuit priest who works undercover on Wall Street to gain experience in high finance. He then gets involved in a conspiracy involving the Vatican Bank, the CIA, the Mafia, and the freemasons. All that on a $15 million budget!
Variety says that Lucas will be joined on the Montreal set next year by Jordi Molla (who?), Giancarlo Gianninni, and Peter O’ Toole. I honestly thought O’Toole was dead prior to seeing this item. The picture was written by Brain Phelan and will be directed by music video stalwart Andy Morahan. This whole thing smells of direct-to-DVD.
The movie is based on the true story of Roberto Calvi. The Italian banker, known as “God’s Banker” was found hanging under a bridge in London in 1982. Calvi was at the center of complex web of shenanigans that involved the Mafia and the Vaptican Bank. Although his death was initially ruled a suicide, it was later determined to be a murder. If the whole plot sounds vaguely familiar, it was used by Francis Ford Coppola in The Godfather III, which was a pretty disappointing film, as this one is likely to be.
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Josh-Lucas-Works-For-God-7128.html
