Wild Full Trailer for John Turturro’s THE JESUS ROLLS a Spinoff of THE BIG LEBOWSKI
The first full trailer has been released for The Jesus Rolls, which features John Turturro reprising his role as Jesus Quintana from The Big Lebowski. This film looks like it’s going to tell a wild and strange story, and I’m looking forward to seeing how it plays out.
Turturro wrote and directed the film with the blessing from The Coen Brothers. He also managed to bring together a great cast including Bobby Cannavale, Christopher Walken, Audrey Tautou, Jon Hamm, Susan Sarandon, and Pete Davidson.
It was previously explained that The Jesus Rolls is part Big Lebowski spinoff, part remake of Bertrand Blier’s 1974 film Going Places, which was the original title for the film. This is the synopsis that was shared:
Hours after being released from prison for good behavior, Jesus Quintana (Turturro) reunites with his best friend and fellow underachiever Petey (Bobby Cannavale). In the first in a series of rapidly escalating bad decisions, they steal a vintage car parked in front of an upscale salon and hit the road for a no-holds-barred joyride — until the car’s gun-toting owner (Hamm) catches up with them, wounding Petey. Fleeing the scene with fiercely free-spirited shampooist Marie (Tautou), Jesus and Petey continue their adventure in a series of stolen cars, cementing their partnership with an epic petty-crime spree and a three-way romance
When previously talking about the film, Turturro said:
“It’s a bit of a racy movie. It shows how stupid men are. That’s what the movie is kinda about – the women are the stronger, more together characters. I had to tweak it a little bit but now I feel really good about it. It’s basically an exploration of Jesus getting out of jail. It’s a comedy but a very human comedy.”
The Jesus Roles will be released in theaters on February 28, 2020. I also included a poster below the trailer.