Columbus finds out youthful Jesus pic

ColumbusNowrasteh'Christ the The almighty: From Egypt'After helping bring Harry Potter and Kevin McCallister to existence, Chris Columbus is searching to place another famous kid on the giant screen: Jesus.Columbus' 1492 Pictures and CJ Entertainment have developed the privileges towards the Anne Grain tome "Christ the The almighty: From Egypt," which informs the storyline of the seven-year-old Jesus, who leaves Egypt together with his family to come back the place to find Nazareth and finds out the reality regarding his birth, who he's, and the purpose in existence.Cyrus Nowrasteh will direct from the script he composed with Betsy Nowrasteh. Columbus will produce together with Michael Barnathan and Mark Radcliffe through 1492 Pictures with Sean Lee, Patricia Chun and Keo Lee creating through CJ Entertainment.Grain found Nowrasteh first and requested if he'd undertake the project having seen his film "The Stoning of Soraya M." After saying yes to create and direct the project, Nowrasteh introduced it to Columbus and Marnathan at 1492."This film has got the potential to become a motion picture classic, an image which will attract any age, all across the globe,Inch Columbus stated. "I'm proud to participate this incredible production."The Nowrastehs and Grain are repped by CAA. Columbus and 1492 are repped by WME. Contact Justin Kroll at justin.kroll@variety.com