THE GRAND INQUISITOR is a five part film updating Dostoevsky’s mystical fable to a future,
Fox network style reality. In our adaptation, the second coming has arrived in the form of
a radical African-American messiah, and the Network/Church/Government is seen in the teaser looking through auditions for a more acceptable replacement Jesus that they can rush into the marketplace to offset the disruptive influence of the “false prophet”.
In the original version (taken from Dostoevsky's final masterpiece
THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV), The Grand Inquisitor is a fable told by one brother (the agnostic city slicker IVAN), to another (the provincial monk-in-training ALYOSHA). Later, in the chapter IVAN'S NIGHTMARE, it is revealed that Ivan has a devilish figure in a black suit always at his side, whom no one else can see...