{"id":1512,"date":"2011-11-01T15:34:42","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/faithmediaandculture\/?p=1512"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:42:06","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:42:06","slug":"left-behind-picked-up-for-film-reboot-iranian-actress-spared-lashings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2011\/11\/left-behind-picked-up-for-film-reboot-iranian-actress-spared-lashings.html","title":{"rendered":"“Left Behind” picked up for film reboot + Iranian actress spared lashings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are today’s quick dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media and culture.<\/p>\n

1. Faith-based Left Behind <\/em>saga reportedly getting a movie reboot. <\/strong><\/strong>From Hollywood Reporter<\/a>: Paul Lalonde, the writer and producer of the original set of movies made by Lalonde’s Cloud Ten Pictures, and John Patus, who worked on the final entry, 2005’s Left Behind: World at War, have written a screenplay, and Cloud Ten is now searching for a director. The script will be shown to buyers at the American Film Market, which gets under way this week in Santa Monica<\/em>…The<\/em> (original) Left Behind movies, which starred Kirk Cameron and launched in 2001, adapted the mega-successful books written by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkinsthat reportedly sold more than 65 million copies. The movies were political thrillers that focused on the End of Days and the Rapture.<\/em>
\nComment:<\/strong> I never saw the original since I’m not real big on this particular genre of faith-based film. Maybe because movies like this remind me of a really scary fire-and-brimstone minister I used to hear on the radio as a little kid. I don’t doubt that the filmmakers’ intentions are good. It’s just not my cup of tea.\u00a0 Anyway, here’s the trailer to the original.<\/p>\n