Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments

The Immaculate Conception

2/3/09 – SCI FI Wire reported that Marcus Nispel is developing a religious-themed sci-fi thriller called The Immaculate Conception.  "This is something I came up with in a conversation with a bunch of friends one evening, and they said, 'How come there's no good movie on cloning?'" Nispel recalled. "I said, 'Any character in world history that we could clone, who would it be?' Somebody says, 'Oh, Elvis Presley.' Somebody else, 'Walt Disney.' I said, 'Well, that's interesting. You clone Walt Disney, you could wind up with somebody who entertains the masses, but you could also wind up with the next Adolf Hitler, you know?' ... And I came up with an idea out of this whole thing called Immaculate Conception, where a girl is pregnant but never had sex before, doesn't know how [she's pregnant]. There's obviously a conspiracy going on, people around her get targeted, get offed. You know, she wants to get an abortion, her priest says, ... 'This is so what we're not about. You can't go through with this.'"  The girl finds her parents murdered, and "at the end of the first act, you're watching Rosemary's Baby, only to find out that there's sort of a religious splinter group that has a relic, and the relic is a rusty nail that they found in the hills of Golgotha, and that she's pregnant with, in all likelihood, the body of Christ," Nispel said.

AlienAlmanac.com 2009