{"id":9,"date":"2010-06-29T04:09:30","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T04:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/catholicsmediaandculture\/2010\/06\/wheres-the-bold-fresh-movie-five-books-that-touch-on-faith-and-would-make-great-movies.html"},"modified":"2010-06-29T04:09:30","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T04:09:30","slug":"wheres-the-bold-fresh-movie-five-books-that-touch-on-faith-and-would-make-great-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/catholicsmediaandculture\/2010\/06\/wheres-the-bold-fresh-movie-five-books-that-touch-on-faith-and-would-make-great-movies.html","title":{"rendered":"Where’s the “Bold Fresh” movie? Five books that touch on faith and would make great movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hollywood loves to find hot books to turn into movies. But, to the best of my knowledge, none of the five books on this list — all based on true stories and all touching on the subject of faith — are currently in development at any studio.<\/p>\n

A BOLD FRESH PIECE OF HUMANITY<\/b> by Bill O’Reilly<\/a> (Random House)
Published in 2008, the book<\/a> in which the top-rated cable talk show host recalls how his Catholic education helped shape him into the person he is today, spent a solid year on the New York Times bestseller list.  Obviously, O’Reilly and the entire Fox News Channel would provide a forum to promote the hell (I mean heck) out the movie. And, yet, as far as I can gather, there is not movie planned — not even from Fox’s own movie studio.  Inexplicable.<\/p>\n

BEYOND BLUE<\/b> by Therese Borchard<\/a> (Center Street)
Beliefnet’s own blogger<\/a> has written a riveting, witty and inspirational account<\/a> of her own battle with depression. She recounts how her own Catholicism both contributed to her illness and helped provide the light and support that would see her through.  It would make a great movie — with a leading role meaty enough to nail an Oscar for its star. Let the bidding war begin!

CROSSBEARER: A MEMOIR OF FAITH<\/b> by Joe Eszterhas<\/a> (St. Martin’s Press)<\/p>\n

<\/em><\/b>This compelling auto-biography<\/a> tells the story of how Eszterhas, the author of erotic movies like Basic Instinct <\/em>and Showgirls <\/em>found
\nGod and the strength to give up his addictions to alcohol and tobacco
\n— and to survive a horrendous battle with throat cancer.  Considering how
\nmuch he was paid for those previous works, you would think Hollywood studios would be lining up to produce this one.<\/p>\n

UNLIKELY ANGEL: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE ATLANTA HOSTAGE HERO<\/b> by Ashley Smith<\/a> (Zondervan\/Harper Collins)
This one’s the Apollo<\/i> <\/a>13<\/a> <\/i>of our day in that the actual facts of the story require virtually no writer embellishment.<\/a><\/em><\/em> You no doubt remember the story of the Atlanta woman who in 2005  was taken hostage by a fugitive
\nwho shot his way out of an Atlanta courtroom.  After several tense
\nhours she talked him into allowing her to go free resulting in the
\nnonviolent end of a real-life drama that captivated the nation. Of
\ncourse, her own road to devout Christianity and the book The Purpose
\nDriven Life<\/i> by Rick Warren<\/a>, the famed evangelical pastor of
\nCalifornia’s Saddleback Church, were key to the story’s happy ending. Could those facts have anything to do with Hollywood’s skittishness?<\/p>\n

IN THE PRESENCE OF MY ENEMIES<\/b> <\/em>by Gracia Burnham<\/a> (Tyndale House Publishers)<\/font>
Another
\ntrue story written by the person who lived it — and, again, the screenplay would virtually write itself<\/a>.  In 2001 Gracia Burnham was a Protestant missionary who, along with her missionary
\nhusband, spent a year in captivity by Islamist terrorists
\noperating in the southern Philippines.  Her husband was killed in the
\ndaring rescue that freed her.  An amazing — and dramatic — story of faith. Yet no discernible interest from Hollywood
\nthat I’m aware of.<\/p>\n

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