Zack Snyder

And he happens to come across this guy who also is flying a biplane who happens to be like a messiah, who happens to be like this super spiritually advanced dude who's on the run from... He doesn't want to be the messiah.

He's like... It's called Illusions, The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah.

And it's about the two of them spending a summer together, just the one guy teaching him about like...

It's a shit job being the Messiah.

Like, don't do it.

Because you know what happens to the Messiahs in the end.

Right.

Yeah.

He goes, do you always have to die a violent death?

And he goes, yeah, I don't think always.

And he's like, really?

He goes, yeah, you know what?

It's cool for like... He goes, what about just a quiet little ascension, you know, just on the side?

And he's like, yeah, I don't think the universe will let that happen.

So it's a cool... So it's this really cool...

Again, it's like this sort of, it's again like a spiritual deconstructivist, like Messiah story.

And I just like, I've always, it was like this book when I was growing up, I just, in a lot of ways, it's religious philosophy is similar to Christian science.

So I superimposed my religious beliefs onto this book, and I felt like it kind of spoke to my doubts and my questions about my religious upbringing and what I thought for real.

So my brother passed away when I was 13.

He got in a car accident, and he was this incredibly spiritual dude.