Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment have made a deal for "Prodigal Son," a romantic comedy that Gigi Levangie Grazer ("Stepmom") will write with Mimi James.
Brian Grazer produces the story which revolves around a workaholic single woman who is set up on a date by her mother.
Her date, a handsome, kind and caring carpenter who works at Ikea, turns out to be Jesus Christ, who's returned for Armageddon and settled in contemporary Los Angeles.
Grazer tells Variety that "It's a love it or hate it idea, but we're not aiming to offend. He won't be having sex. It'll be a disarming romantic comedy, a story of unrequited love, sort of like 'Splash.'"
