The Church of Walkentology, also known as the Church of Jesus, Christopher Walken, is a controversial quasi-religious organization founded in 1981 by Hollywood writer-director L. Mike Cimino after the disastrous critical and financial failure of his 1980 film Heaven's Gate.[#endnote_loony] Though it has been granted tax-exempt status as a religion by several world governments (most notably the Cayman Islands - where Cimino moors his fishing trawler, the Sorry Natalie), Walkentologists are often viewed with derision by adherents of more traditional religious denominations. As Pope John Paul II once wrote, "I care little for the fact that his name begins with 'Christ'; this is not Christianity, though I do enjoy the gratuitous gun violence and explosions."