Title:
The Mandylion
Status:
Pre Production
Genre:
Adventure | Horror | Thriller
Directed by:
Robert Sigl
Written by:
Leo Gough & Robert Sigl
Duration:
90+ minutes run time
Orig. Language:
English
Location:
Istanbul, Turkey
Starring (confirmed):
tba
When his archaeologist sister is possessed by the spirit of a vengeful woman, a young student finds himself enmeshed in a revenge plot aimed at his father, the incarnation of an evil emperor.
All the ways do not seem to lead to Rome, but to Istanbul – or Constantinople as it was called in former days. A young American intern, Tom Giltrap, decides to travel there to say good-bye to his beloved, younger archaeologist sister Rachel after the devastating diagnosis of a growing brain tumor that shows in his X-rays.
And another man, a Jesuit priest by the name of Von Wessel, is sent there by the Vatican to get his hands on a powerful, religious icon that lies buried in the catacombs of Istanbul and is soon to be discovered during an excavation that is taking place in the heart of the megalopolis. That very icon, the Mandylion, is a long-lost piece of cloth in which the facial features of none other than Jesus Christ have left an imprint and has been guarded ever since by the spirit of Arachne, the Queen of the spiders, in her underground tomb. Von Wessel is dismissed with a warning: the spirit must give it to him out of free will.