Why is the Creative Artists Agency key to making Tobit a film?

For most of the past 40 years, Creative Artists Agency has been the most innovative, most influential and, unfortunately, the most feared talent agency in Hollywood. From its launch in 1975 by five young agents who broke from then-dominant William Morris, it ascended in the 1980s and '90s under Michael Ovitz, who perfected the packaging of clients — actors, writers, directors — into a single project and began representing nontraditional clients like Mel Gibson.

Currently there is a petition that asks Jack Whigham and the Creative Artists Agency to package Mel Gibson and their other talent to bring the biblical story of Tobit to film.  You can sign the petition by clicking here!

Jack Whigham, head of Creative Artists Agency's motion picture group, would be the key to package Tobit into a film. Jack Whigham is uniquely positioned to make this great story come to the silver screen.

Mel Gibson is not only a Catholic, but also a controversial religious figure not only in the Jewish film community but across society. The story of Tobit is not only a Catholic and Orthodox Christian story, but essentially a Jewish story. Tobit is a pius Jew. Tobit is a religious folktale and a Judaicized version of the story of the grateful dead, it relates how Tobit, a pious Jew exiled to Nineveh in Assyria, observed the precepts of Hebrew Law by giving alms and by burying the dead. There are many Jewish actors, directors and producers, not to mention agents, at CAA who should love this story.  

You can help draw attention to this project, if you will kindly sign the petition and post a link to http://chng.it/bxdZBCqgJD.  Appreciate your time.