“Jesus Kid”, new movie Aly Muritiba, gets official trailer

“Jesus Kid”, new film by Aly Muritiba, director of “Deserto Particular”, had its official trailer released this Tuesday (17). The comedy feature is starring Paulo Miklos and Sérgio Marone and mix elements of western with a crime thriller.

Based on the homonymous work by Lourenço Mutarellithe plot revolves around eugenio (Miklos), a writer of pocket books of western, which is going through a difficult phase of its career. Your most famous character, Jesus Kidis doing poorly in sales and the publisher is threatening to stop publishing it.

When he is hired by a producer and a film director to write the script for a film, he accepts the proposal to write the text inside a luxury hotel, which, by contract, he cannot leave for three months. The only problem is that Eugenio starts to believe that he has someone trying to kill him. Watch:

“It was a dizzying experience to play the protagonist of Jesus Kid. In today’s Brazil, reality has surpassed fiction. It’s not what happens with Eugênio, he writes and the character of his story rewrites his destiny. This is a film that will always be prophetic.” comments Paulo Miklos in a note.

Sérgio Marone, who gives life to the hero Jesus Kid, says he was responsible for presenting Mutarelli’s work to Muritiba. “I read Jesus Kid in 2010 when I was looking for a story to adapt for a movie. I saw that it was a really fun movie. At the Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival, in Los Angeles, I watched ‘A Fábrica’, a short film by Aly, and I was fascinated by his sensitivity and talent. He was the ideal director to make Jesus Kid, my first film as a producer as well as an actor. It was a long, amazing process. The feeling of seeing the first night on set happening was indescribable. Very exciting indeed, the realization of a dream.”

The film also has Maureen Miranda, Leandro Daniel, Luthero Almeida, Fábio Silvestre and Otávio Linhares in the cast.

“Jesus Kid” opens in theaters on June 9 and on streaming platforms on the 10th.