Not one, but TWO lost unauthorized Filipino Jesus Christ Superstar movies from the Seventies?

[darquegk]

Not one, but TWO lost unauthorized Filipino Jesus Christ Superstar movies from the Seventies?#1

Posted: 5/29/26 at 10:28pm

I went down a rabbit hole last night and wound up taking a few of you with me: first, I discovered a poster for a 1972 Filipino film, "Jesus Christ Superstar," which appeared to recreate the album as a biker movie. Trying to research this (it's assumed to be lost media destroyed by the Marcos regime), I wound up first thinking I'd found information on it, but no.

What I found was that there's a SECOND unauthorized Filipino Jesus Christ Superstar from before the movie's release. This was a "dub-smash" on Filipino TV with television personalities and comedians lip-syncing the original Brown Album. And just like the feature film, it's missing and presumed lost to time.

Is any of this ringing a bell for anyone? If one of you happens to have either of these stashed away, that's an artifact that could rewrite film and musical theatre history, since this would ALSO be one of the earliest examples of the "sweding" indie film subgenre.