# Don't f\*\*k with the Jesus: Turturro plans Lebowski spinoff **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 4, 2016, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-f-k-with-the-jesus-turturro-plans-lebowski-spinoff/773848 "2016-12-04T18:53:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2016, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-f-k-with-the-jesus-turturro-plans-lebowski-spinoff/773848/1 "2016-12-04T18:53:59Z")
> **[The Jesus Rolls](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_Places_(2017_film))** > > The Jesus Rolls is a 2020 American crime comedy film written by, directed by, and starring John Turturro. It doubles as a remake of the 1974 French film Going Places by Bertrand Blier, and as a spin-off to the 1998 cult film The Big Lebowski by the Coen brothers. Turturro reprises his Lebowski role of Jesus Quintana. > It was filmed in 2016 and premiered at the Rome Film Festival on October 16, 2019. It was released on February 28, 2020, by Screen Media Films. It was a box office bomb and received... > **[The Jesus Rolls (2019) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5974030/)** > > The Jesus Rolls: Directed by John Turturro. With John Turturro, Bobby Cannavale, Audrey Tautou, Susan Sarandon. A trio of misfits whose irreverent, sexually charged dynamic evolves into a surprising love story as their spontaneous and flippant... The Coen Bros. have given their permission. Hope it’s good! “Eight-year-olds, Dude…” ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2016, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-f-k-with-the-jesus-turturro-plans-lebowski-spinoff/773848/2 "2016-12-04T20:44:45Z")
I seem to recall Mr. Turturro saying that that was his favorite role of all time, so it doesn’t surprise me that he’d want to revisit it. Glad that the Coens are cool with it and that Mr. Turturro himself is writing and directing. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2016, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-f-k-with-the-jesus-turturro-plans-lebowski-spinoff/773848/3 "2016-12-04T22:43:56Z")
"… a trio of sexually-depraved misfits, " Gives a whole new meaning to “We’ve got a man down, Dude!” Ewww. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-f-k-with-the-jesus-turturro-plans-lebowski-spinoff/773848/4 "2016-12-05T00:11:33Z")
It kills me that our church is too “God’s Frozen People” to have one of those signs outside, where we could give free advice, like… Lutheran Zen Church of Normsville “ **Don’t fuck with the Jesus…** ” Services at 8:15 and 10:45 ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-f-k-with-the-jesus-turturro-plans-lebowski-spinoff/773848/5 "2016-12-05T00:54:19Z")
I may duplicate that sign for the church on my model railroad. ---
**Author:** ![HeXen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@HeXen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeXen)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-f-k-with-the-jesus-turturro-plans-lebowski-spinoff/773848/6 "2016-12-05T00:59:43Z")
I should probably watch the Big lebowski, always looked stupid to me but people reference it a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-f-k-with-the-jesus-turturro-plans-lebowski-spinoff/773848/7 "2016-12-05T01:08:54Z")
> [@HeXen](#): > > I should probably watch the Big lebowski, always looked stupid to me but people reference it a lot. Yeah, well, you know, that’s just, like, your opinion, man. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-f-k-with-the-jesus-turturro-plans-lebowski-spinoff/773848/8 "2016-12-05T01:25:33Z")
> [@HeXen](#): > > I should probably watch the Big lebowski, always looked stupid to me but people reference it a lot. I’ve seen it and I don’t think much of it as a film. One of my last favorite Coen Brothers films, for sure (prolly just ahead of _The Hudsucker Proxy_, in fact, and I loathe that film). But it does have a few good lines and 1 awesome scene, and like every Coen Brothers film, it does have fantastic performances. Mr. Turturro’s, altho in a small supporting role, is memorably and hilariously over-the-top. ---
**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-f-k-with-the-jesus-turturro-plans-lebowski-spinoff/773848/9 "2016-12-05T07:35:24Z")
Honestly I think this is an awful idea. Having a child molester as an antagonist in a couple of scenes works, but a whole movie of them as the protagonist is going to turn a lot of stomachs. And the French film it’s based on sounds appalling. This could be a complete disaster. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-f-k-with-the-jesus-turturro-plans-lebowski-spinoff/773848/10 "2016-12-05T08:10:47Z")
+1^ ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-f-k-with-the-jesus-turturro-plans-lebowski-spinoff/773848/11 "2016-12-05T11:34:53Z")
Yeah! Turtorro is a genius. I need to rewatch _Romance & Cigarettes_, which he not only directed, but found jobs for his entire family (his young son Diego played _boy on tricycle_). ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-f-k-with-the-jesus-turturro-plans-lebowski-spinoff/773848/12 "2016-12-05T15:23:35Z")
Jesus Quintana without the Coen Bros? Skimming his wikipedia page, I don’t think I’ve seen anything John Turturro wrote or directed, but I’ve always loved his acting. I’ll watch it for sure. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-f-k-with-the-jesus-turturro-plans-lebowski-spinoff/773848/13 "2016-12-05T15:27:45Z")
So, it is both a remake of one cult movie, and a spin-off of another. Count me as skeptical. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-f-k-with-the-jesus-turturro-plans-lebowski-spinoff/773848/14 "2016-12-05T15:57:46Z")
> [@DrCube](#): > > JSkimming his wikipedia page, I don’t think I’ve seen anything John Turturro wrote or directed, but I’ve always loved his acting. I cannot recommend [_Romance & Cigarettes_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368222/) highly enough. [QUOTE=IMDB] A down-and-dirty musical set in the world of working-class New York, tells a story of a husband’s journey into infidelity and redemption when he must choose between his seductive mistress and his beleaguered wife. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-f-k-with-the-jesus-turturro-plans-lebowski-spinoff/773848/15 "2016-12-05T17:01:29Z")
> [@lisiate](#): > > Honestly I think this is an awful idea. Having a child molester as an antagonist in a couple of scenes works, but a whole movie of them as the protagonist is going to turn a lot of stomachs. As far as we know, those are just allegations by Walter Sobchak, who is not at all reliable. The charges are not necessarily true. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-f-k-with-the-jesus-turturro-plans-lebowski-spinoff/773848/16 "2016-12-05T18:09:08Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > As far as we know, those are just allegations by Walter Sobchak, who is not at all reliable. The charges are not necessarily true. Well, the blurb does say “\* it follows a trio of sexually-depraved misfits,”\* but yes, I do hope they play down the child molester stuff. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-f-k-with-the-jesus-turturro-plans-lebowski-spinoff/773848/17 "2016-12-05T18:28:47Z")
> [@HeXen](#): > > I should probably watch the Big lebowski, always looked stupid to me but people reference it a lot. FWIW, the first time I saw it, I absolutely hated the movie, and I loved the Coens (minus the aforementioned _Hudsucker Proxy_). The second time (and ever since), I’ve viewed it, it vaulted to the upper echelon of my Coen Brothers movies list, and I have no idea what I found so objectionable about it the first time I saw it. So, it may be one of these movies that takes a couple of views spaced out over time to fully appreciate. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-f-k-with-the-jesus-turturro-plans-lebowski-spinoff/773848/18 "2016-12-05T19:16:11Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Well, the blurb does say “\* it follows a trio of sexually-depraved misfits,”\* but yes, I do hope they play down the child molester stuff. Most of my friends are sexually depraved misfits, but none of them are pedophiles. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-f-k-with-the-jesus-turturro-plans-lebowski-spinoff/773848/19 "2016-12-05T20:53:48Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > As far as we know, those are just allegations by Walter Sobchak, who is not at all reliable. The charges are not necessarily true. We do see in TBL (my longtime favorite Coen Bros. movie, BTW) a quick, silent scene of the Jesus going door-to-door, supposedly to notify his new neighbors that he’s a convicted pedophile, but as you say, that might just be more of Walter’s BS. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-f-k-with-the-jesus-turturro-plans-lebowski-spinoff/773848/20 "2016-12-05T21:00:35Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Well, the blurb does say “\* it follows a trio of sexually-depraved misfits,”\* but yes, I do hope they play down the child molester stuff. The “child molester” is perhaps going a little far. What I remember from the Big Lebowski was he was tossed in prison for “exposing” himself in front of a kid. For all we know, he was drunk and peed on an occupied jungle gym. Given the nature of the film they are remaking, it could be something to do with having sex with an adult in public with an unexpected juvenile audience. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-f-k-with-the-jesus-turturro-plans-lebowski-spinoff/773848.md?page=2)