Untitled Project #2

Billy Zane and Jaoquin Phoenix are half-brothers. Their father may or may not be the Lazarus (he could just be a Lazarus-type), this mystical paternity has granted them the ability to raise the recently deceased from the dead.

Do they have a mission? Yes, to find out the fate of their father and, if he still lives, kill him and set him free from the bonds of the Earth because for every year the Dad is alive, a single soul must take his place in the afterlife. A soul that would have otherwise continued to live. Oh, the angst! Are the brothers raising the right people from the dead? Or are they making things worse? Would they be better off doing nothing, or not bringing people back and just killing Dad? How do they find all of this out? Does a little man who lives in a cave and wears a white robe with an equally white beard tell them? No! Their mothers belonged to a cult - both died in childbirth, of course - and they were raised by a woman who amounts to the cult's den mother (because even cults need someone to clean the bathrooms).

Is there a conflict between the brothers? Of course! Jaoquin's character is afraid of what will be revealed and would rather turn back than continue on and Billy's character drags him forward by sheer inertia.

EDIT - 09.08.2004
But who will play Dad? Elliot Gould, of course!