Pythons’ ‘Brian’ versus ‘Passion’
As “counter-programming” to Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ,” Monty Python’s 1979 satire “Life of Brian” is being re-released late next month, with trailers headed for the theaters starting on Good Friday.
“I intend it, hopefully, to serve as an antidote to all the hysteria about Mel’s movie,” Rainbow Film President Henry Jaglom told Reuters. The company’s distribution arm is reissuing the film, and marketing will play off Gibson’s film with taglines such as “Mel or Monty” and “The Passion or the Python.”
The five surviving Monty Python members “all agreed this was a good time” to re-release the film and would help promote it, Jaglom said.
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