Watch These Movies Before ‘The Jesus Rolls’

It’s 2020 and the fact that John Turturro is making a spin-off movie based on a minor Coen Brothers character he played over two decades ago isn’t even one of the top 10 weirdest things currently happening in the world, in film or beyond.

Watch these movies before The Jesus Rolls.

The Big Lebowski

The number one reason to even know what this movie is comes from the bizarre fact that it’s technically a spin-off of The Big Lebowski. In fact, Turturro had to get permission from the Coen Brothers to use the character Jesus Quintana. So not only is this a landmark crime comedy film in its own right, but it’s also now the starting point of a cinematic universe?

Going Places

If being a Big Lebowski spin-off isn’t absurd enough, The Jesus Rolls is also an American remake of the infamous French sex comedy Going Places from 1974. Sure! Why not?

Kingpin

Above all else, the Jesus is a bowler. A very extravagant, very… physical bowler. For another 1990s bowling comedy, albeit without the art-house quality, check out Kingpin by the Farrelly brothers.

Barton Fink

John Turturro and the Coen Brothers have been close for years. Even the Jesus character himself is largely a creation of Turturro that the Coens just trusted him with. One of their best and most inexplicable collaborations is the psychological thriller Barton Fink. Barton Fink! Barton Fink! Barton Fink!

Get Him to the Greek

A random spin-off centered around a flashy side character from an otherwise unrelated comedy worked pretty well for Russell Brand in Get Him to the Greek. And The Big Lebowski is about ten times the movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall is. So maybe the math works out for The Jesus Rolls.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

John Turturro stands under two wrecking balls that are supposed to be a Decepticon’s robot testicles. Let the man enjoy his paycheck.

Amélie

Perhaps as an homage to the French roots of the story, The Jesus Rolls also stars Audrey Tautou as part of the “trio of sexually depraved misfits” included Turturro and Bobby Cannavale. She’s probably still best known worldwide as the star of acclaimed French romantic comedy Amélie.

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