Fr. John Wauck is at it again.  He takes on dragons in the upcoming movie "There Be Dragons" featuring the life of St. Josemaria and the Spanish Civil War which will be released in the U.S.A. on May 6, 2011.

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Here is an introductory excerpt from his blog:

"The title, There Be Dragons, is a reference to those old maps from the days when parts of the world were still unexplored. In the unknown realms, the maps often had a warning in Latin: “Hic Sunt Leones” (here be lions) or “Hic Sunt Dracones” (here be dragons). In a way, that’s where this movie takes place.

In interviews, the director and screenwriter, Roland Joffé, has made clear that his new film is not a “bio-pic” about St. Josemaría Escrivá. The movie does track pretty closely the early part of Escrivá’s life, but it’s not a movie about him. What I mean is… well, if you’re familiar with Joffé’s other films, ask yourself: is The Mission a movie about the Jeremy Irons character, or The Killing Fields a movie about Dith Pran? The answer, I think, is “not really,” even though those characters are absolutely central to those films. The same could probably be said of Josemaría Escrivá and There Be Dragons. In fact, all three of these films feature at least a pair of central characters.

Through the eyes of Robert Torres, an investigative journalist living in London, There Be Dragons tells the story of two young men in Spain around the time of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). One becomes a priest. The other does not. The one who becomes a priest is Josemaría Escrivá, the founder of Opus Dei, canonized by Pope John Paul II in 2002. The other, a fictional character named Manolo, is the father of the journalist. By the end, the journalist has learned a great deal about many things, including his father, Escrivá and himself.

Here in Italy, There Be Dragons would be called “impegnativo” – demanding. And rich. There are three story lines. There’s fact and fiction. There’s love and revenge, faith and doubt. There’s sanctity, wickedness, and madness.There are communists, fascists, and the bloody battles of a civil war. There’s assassination and espionage. There are elephants, donkeys and sparrows. There are rosaries, sacraments and brutal iconoclasm. There’s an insane asylum and a mountain church in ruins. There’s a chocolate bean, a house of cards, and a yellow rose. There are beautiful women, soldiers, priests, bishops, and little children. There’s birth and death. There are fathers and sons. At the very heart of the film, there’s an amusing but very serious bet…"  Read more at https://twitter.com/wauckinrome