Remember Nacho Libre? The in-the-works Mike White-written, Jared Hess-directed, Jack Black-starring movie based on the “true story” of “a Mexican priest who secretly moonlights as a masked wrestler in order to save an orphanage from closure”?
JoBlo.com has just posted the first photo from this film, a portion of which appears above, as well as the following plot synopsis, courtesy of Paramount Pictures:
From the creators of NAPOLEON DYNAMITE and SCHOOL OF ROCK comes a wildly original, off-the-wall comedy about Nacho, a lowly slop cook at an orphanage who secretly dreams of becoming a famous Mexican wrestler. Moonlighting in disguise, he is ultimately exposed and excommunicated by the church. But when he defeats Mexico’s most feared Luchador, and gives his winnings to the orphans, he becomes a local hero.
Hmmm. Is Black’s character a priest and a lowly slop cook? Or has he been revised? (And, uh, what’s up with “excommunicated”?)
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