Wesley delayed until 2009

The movie Wesley , based on the life of John Wesley, has been pushed back to 2009.

Previously this film was scheduled to be released on Nov. 15, 2008.

No word on the specifics of why this was delayed, but speculation on The Christian Post links it to a crowded Christian movie market (Fireproof , Billy: The Early Years and House  are all out or will be out in the near future).  I'd like to see a bit more marketing from the producers, as this is one of the more obscure Christian movies in the pipeline right now.

(The Christian Post)
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Pendragon: Sword of His Father

We've been following Pendragon: Sword of His Father for a little while now.  Well, the film's official site reports that a DVD might be available as soon as November, and you can go there to watch the newest trailer for the film.  I've been praying for them to have success in finishing this project, and now I've started praying that it will be as good a movie as it looks like it could be! In the meantime, The River Bend Telegraph has an interview with filmmaker Chad Burns, about the challenges of making a low-budget epic film.  It is an interesting interview, and it further piques my interest in this movie.  I can't wait! (River Bend Telegraph)

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Christian Drive in Stays Dark this Summer

If you have as many fond memories of drive-ins as I do, then this story will make you sad.  

A drive-in theatre in Manitou Beach, Michigan, has closed.  This particular drive-in had been dedicated to screening only Christian movies since its founding in the late 1940s.  Tragically, the current owners, Terry and Olive Lytle both died recently, less than 6 weeks apart.  

Drive-in movie theatres are rare enough as it is, and seeing a Christian film at a drive-in is an experience shared by few people.  I'll be praying that new owners will step in to keep up the Christian drive-in experience in Michigan.  

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Christian Pre-History?

Dancing from Genesis, a blog all about young earth Creationism, has a fun suggestion.  

James Nienhuis suggests, in a bizarrely formatted but intriguingly worded post, that Young Earth Creationism in general, and specifically the stories alluded to by the book of Genesis, are a ripe ground for Christian filmmakers to mine from.  

I have many reservations about Young Earth Creationism, but I have to say that this sounds like a grand setting for an adventure.  Nienhuis himself suggest such great ideas a sunken "Cyclopean cities," "Bronze Age Kingdoms," and "Ice Age Civilizations."  How such a setting could be made into a "Christian" movie requires a bit more thought, since God didn't reveal himself to Abraham until sometime around 2000BC, well after the construction of the Pyramids and presumably after the continents had shifted and any "Ice Age" Cyclopiean cities had been swallowed by the flood.  Maybe a more general idea of God along the lines of Noah's experience, but it would be hard to have anyone actually worshiping God in anything that a Christian, or even a Jew, would recognize.  

Still, I think there is some fertile ground here.  How many antediluvian epics could you make about Nimrod, the unstoppable killer who is finally destroyed in an confrontation with the Angel of the Lord on the slopes of Mountain of the Lord? 

I'd pay to see that.  Nimrod and his Mammoth calvary vs. Angels with flaming swords.  Conan has nothing on that.

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The Case for Christ: The Movie

John Armstrong has reviewed the recently released The Case for ChristrThe Movie on DVD.  He gives it high marks as a film and as a DVD, which has several interesting sounding extra features.

It sounds like a fairly boring documentary, but I hope that they managed to get some of the more engaging parts of the book translated well to the screen.  

I read this book years ago, and, if they simply video the interviews from that are described in the book, it would be an effective, if dry, movie.  Good christian documentaries need to learn from the bad ones, which cover up their poor research and lack of "facts" with flashy effects and dramatic music.

(John H. Armstrong blog)



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