Josh Lucas is GOD'S SPY

By Matt Holmes / June 25, 2011

An interesting movie in development which isn't getting much coverage across the web is the $15 million Indie thriller GOD'S SPY which Variety say has just found it's lead star. Josh Lucas, the handsome and extremely talented and under-rated actor who you will have seen in POSEIDON, AMERICAN PSYCHO and STEALTH. Needless to say he is a better actor than some of those above mentioned movies and I fully expect him to show us his talents in the adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's TELL-TALE next year. Back to GOD'S SPY then, where he will play Roberto Calvi in the true life story of how a young wall street trader, who is really a Jesuit priest working undercover to gain experience of the financial markets. He becomes caught up in a shady political and financial conspiracy involving the Vatican Bank, the CIA, the Mafia and Masonic Lodge P2.

Calvi was dubbed 'God's Banker' (presumably Hollywood thought SPY was a more marketable title) and without giving too much away about the story here, you can catch up with the whole events (which still was subject of much controversy in this summer) by visiting Calvi's wiki page. The legendary Peter O' Toole, Jordi Molla (he was King Phillip II in the latest ELIZABETH movie) and Giancarlo Giannini (Mathis from CASINO ROYALE) are all also on board. What a cast. Shame that Andy Morahan (HIGHLANDER III: THE SORCERER, MURDER IN MIND and the upcoming GOAL III) is directing because with an accomplished helmer on board this could have been something special. Still, here's hoping it lives up to the project of the subject matter and it's terrific cast.