It’s not every day that you can get disgraced former pastor/conservative religious icon Ted Haggard to make a cameo in your movie, but it’s also not too often that the often terrible world of Christian cinema turns out a movie inspired by Superbad:

When you hear the word “Christian,” the last words you expect to hear next are “sex comedy.”

But with “The Waiting Game,” a pro-abstinence movie (featuring a cameo by former New Life Church pastor Ted Haggard) being developed in Colorado Springs, two local men are determined to boldly go where no filmmaker has gone before.

“I love all the Judd Apatow movies — ‘40 Year Old Virgin,’ ‘Knocked Up,’ ‘Superbad’ — they’re all great,” says Rich Praytor, one of the producers and writers on the film. “So we wanted to take something like that into the Christian arena.”

The Waiting Game is still in the fundraising stage, but the filmmakers hope to start full-scale production in September.

This article appears in May 26 – Jun 1, 2011.

The editor of the Tucson Weekly. I have no idea how I got here.

3 replies on “They Had Me at “Christian Sex Comedy””

  1. Dan, In the Range, you said “As any regular reader of The Range knows, I am quite the fan of Christian film”. I must not be a regular enough reader, as I did NOT know this about you. As such, I’m curious to hear your thoughts on “The Last Temptation of Christ”.

  2. PVK: What I thought was interesting about “Last Temptation…” was that it took Jesus’ struggles very seriously, giving a very visceral example of his pain and the struggle with being human and tempted. However, I wasn’t super crazy about the film in general. One of things I saw once and I doubt I’ll watch again.

  3. Thanks Dan. One of the things I try to explain to folks who didn’t really understand the movie and thought it was blasphemous was, that from the moment the angelic girl took Jesus down from the cross, telling Him He didn’t have to die, until near the end of the film when Peter confronts Him when he was old and dying, berating Him for not dying on the cross as He was supposed to do,… WAS his last temptation, to which He nearly succumbed. In the end, He did not. He asked for forgiveness, crawled back and died on the cross! For me, that was what made the movie right! He did NOT succumb.

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