Success of Facing the Giants Pave Way For Third Movie From Ministry
By: Allie Martin Plans are in the works for a third movie from the church which produced the surprise hit Facing the Giants. At the same time, Sherwood Pictures’ initial venture into moviemaking is being prepared for worldwide release.
Facing the Giants was produced by Sherwood Pictures, a ministry of Sherwood Baptist Church of Albany, Georgia. The movie, which was made for $100,000, has generated millions of dollars in sales and allowed the church to build an 82-acre sports complex as an outreach to the community.
Alex Kendrick, media pastor at Sherwood Baptist Church, is now in the process of hammering out a final script for Sherwood Pictures’ new movie, Fireproof. Kendrick says the movie focuses on a firefighter who has a troubled marriage, seeks out and searches God’s Word, and realizes his marriage cannot be fixed until he gets right with the Lord.
While the success of Giants means a bigger budget for Fireproof, Kendrick says everyone working on the movie will be asked about their relationship with the Lord. The actor/producer says they are not looking for perfect people, but rather those who want to deepen their walk with the Lord.
“What’s most important to us is that the people involved are doing it for the right reasons,” the media pastor shares. “In other words, one question that we asked the cast and the crew is, ‘Is there anything in your life that would prevent God from blessing your work on this movie?'”
Kendrick says when they asked that question of those involved with Giants, it was decision time. “There were quite a few people who said, ‘yes, there are some things in my life I know the Lord is not pleased with’ — and so they stepped aside,” he recalls.
Fireproof has a tentative release date of September 2008.
In the beginning…
Before Facing the Giants, Sherwood Baptist members and Kendrick produced Flywheel, a story about a used car salesman who comes to faith in Christ and turns his professional and personal life around. Kendrick says the movie was a surprise hit.
“We got it in our local theater, and it was supposed to go one week,” he says, “[but it] ended up going six weeks — and then Blockbuster Video picked it up nationwide.”
As Kendrick explains, there is more to come for Flywheel. “Now Sony has picked it up to go worldwide, and they are putting it in numerous languages, and it comes back out in a new re-released form ….”
Sony’s re-release of Flywheel is scheduled for November.
(Source: OneNewsNow.com)
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