"Membership in the family of God is neither inconsequential or something to be casually ignored. The church is God's agenda for the world. Jesus said, "I will build my church, and all the powers of hell will not conquer it." The church is indestructable and will exist for eternity. It will outlive this universe, and so will your role in it."
- Rick Warren
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
They're finally going to make a film adaptation of the C.S. Lewis classic The Great Divorce.
Mpower Pictures ("The Stoning of Soraya M.") and Beloved Pictures are teaming to co-produce C.S. Lewis' fantasy novel "The Great Divorce."
Veteran producer and Mpower CEO Steve McEveety will lead the production team. Childrens' book author N.D. Wilson ("Leepike Ridge," "100 Cupboards") is attached to write.
Lewis, who wrote the "Chronicles of Narnia" books and often wove Christian themes into his works, published "The Great Divorce" in 1945. Story centers on a man who learns that the sprawling, dim metropolis where he's been living is actually Hell; he hops on a bus headed for the outskirts of Elsewhere, only to discover that the one place worse than Hell, for a self-absorbed ad executive, just might be Heaven.
Mpower was created by McEveety in 2007 after he'd been a longtime exec at Mel Gibson's Icon Prods. He produced "The Passion of the Christ" and "We Were Soldiers" and exec produced "Braveheart" and "What Women Want."
(Screenwriter N.D. Wilson, btw, is pastor/wordsmith/curmudgeon Douglas Wilson's son.)
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Comments on ""Great Divorce" Coming to the Silver Screen":
4. Lars Walker
- 06/23/2010 10:42 am CDT
I can't see how it can be done. If it's at all good, it will be a miracle on a couple levels. But they have my good wishes.
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Man, I'm going to have to go back and reread that now, trying to imagine it as a movie...