THE GOSPEL OF JOHN is a new movie premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival in early September. The relevant section of the Globe and Mail article reads:

Toronto � The three-hour film, The Gospel of John, will have its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, it was announced Thursday.

Directed by Philip Saville, the epic, which takes a contemporary approach to the biblical story, is among the films to be shown at the festival's Special Presentation feature.

Christopher Plummer narrates and Henry Ian Cusick plays Jesus. The film features 75 principal actors from the Canadian and British stage, as well as more than 2,000 extras.

It opens in North America on 26 September. Today is the first I've heard of it.