{"id":37472,"date":"2024-04-02T17:43:42","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T21:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/?p=37472"},"modified":"2024-04-02T17:43:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T21:43:42","slug":"bestselling-author-karen-kingsbury-on-her-unexpectedly-timely-film-adaptation-of-someone-like-you-and-working-with-roma-downey-to-bring-the-baxters-to-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2024\/04\/bestselling-author-karen-kingsbury-on-her-unexpectedly-timely-film-adaptation-of-someone-like-you-and-working-with-roma-downey-to-bring-the-baxters-to-tv.html","title":{"rendered":"Bestselling author Karen Kingsbury on her unexpectedly timely film adaptation of &#8220;Someone Like You&#8221; and working with Roma Downey to bring &#8220;The Baxters&#8221; to TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Here&#8217;s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media &amp; culture: 04\/02\/24<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><iframe title=\"Someone Like You (2024) Official Trailer 2 - Karen Kingsbury Productions\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oQ7iDaQAjgE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><strong>The Queen of All Media.<\/strong> With more than 25 million copies of her award-winning books in print and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2023\/03\/bestselling-author-karen-kingsbury-and-screenwriter-son-tyler-russell-talk-about-collaborating-on-a-thousand-tomorrows-the-thorn-becomes-a-fathom-event.html\">recent TV miniseries<\/a>, <strong>Karen Kingsbury<\/strong> has already established herself as one of America&#8217;s great storytellers. Now, with with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2024\/03\/roma-downey-on-bringing-the-baxters-to-tv-ashley-bratcher-on-finding-faith-martin-scorsese-comes-to-fox-nation-country-star-paige-king-johnson-on-easter-gratitude-the-chosen-lights.html\">a TV show based on her popular literary series <strong><em>The Baxters<\/em><\/strong> currently streaming on <strong>Amazon Prime Video<\/strong><\/a> and a new movie based on her romantic bestseller <a href=\"https:\/\/www.someonelikeyou.movie\/\"><strong><em>Someone Like You<\/em> opening in over 2,000 theaters nationwide today<\/strong><\/a>, you might say she&#8217;s having a moment in the cultural spotlight. The movie, which focuses on what happens when a young woman&#8217;s death leads to the revelation that she has a secret twin from whom she was separated when they were both embryos, lands at a time when the issue of In Vitro Fertilation (IVF) is<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/alabama-ivf-frozen-embryos-ruling-cab8171e80c88a088778dc7a187b7b5a\"> very much in the news<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>JWK: I watched the film. It has a very interesting plot. How did the idea for the story come to you?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Karen Kingsbury: <\/strong>Well, you know, I did not know that embryo adoption was a thing. About five years ago I was at an event and met a woman with three embryo-adopted triplets. I mean the wheels started turning. For me, it&#8217;s always that <strong>God<\/strong> puts a movie on my heart. Maybe it will be like an emotional response to something &#8211; and then God lands this beautiful movie on my heart and I get to just to take dictation from it and try to let you see what I saw. Of course, that wouldn&#8217;t be possible with a movie unless it was me making it.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>JWK: The movie arrives at a time when IVF treatment is a very topical subject with the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/alabama-ivf-frozen-embryos-ruling-cab8171e80c88a088778dc7a187b7b5a\">Alabama ruling that equated human embryos to children and the political debate has followed that<\/a>. What are you thoughts on all of that?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>KK: <\/strong>You know, I think IVF is something that is very personal to a family. Right now, we&#8217;re in a situation where science has raised questions that only God can answer. With that being the case, each family has to kind of address the issues of fertility themselves. I&#8217;d say IVF is a tool that has been very helpful for a lot of people &#8211; but what do you do with a leftover embryo? I mean, it&#8217;s a life. There&#8217;s no question. So, then, what do you do? I think people individually need to wrestle with that.<\/p>\n<p>I love the idea that this couple (in the movie) back twenty-four years ago had IVF and one baby but then she couldn&#8217;t have another one and decided to give that little embryo off to a fertility specialist who gave it to a husband and wife doctor team. I loved the idea of following an embryo and what happens if you do give the embryo up? Right now, there are almost a million little embryos on ice, in deep <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC5395684\/\">cryopreservation<\/a> awaiting adoption. The story is a love story. It&#8217;s not like a story that has a political message (regarding) IVF. It&#8217;s just this family&#8217;s story. I think along the way it brings up issues of secrecy, division and betrayal but also love, redemption and hope. I think it&#8217;s a hope that applies to anyone watching the movie.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>JWK: It is amazing that the movie opens now when she issue is so much in the forefront.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>KK: <\/strong>I know. See, that&#8217;s only God. I had no idea that that was coming down from the Supreme Court in Alabama. We filmed in Alabama. We filmed four weeks in Tennessee &#8211; my home state &#8211; and then we filmed one week at a beautiful glass house on Smith Lake in Alabama. So, the timing, I just smile. I just say &#8220;Lord, You&#8217;ve got it all!&#8221; People are gonna know more about the movie because of this. That means more people will be able to experience the beauty and the hope of the film. <strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><strong>JWK: What do you hope people take from the story?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>KK: <\/strong>Well, you know, we&#8217;ve really come to hear something in the early screenings. That is that people are finding healing and hope. They&#8217;re crying. It&#8217;s a tearjerker, yes, but it&#8217;s a beautiful love story that leaves you radiant. I looked at (the audience) and was like &#8220;Wow! They&#8217;re really crying!&#8221; They were so moved but they were radiant. My prayer is that if people go to see <em>Someone Like You<\/em>&#8230;that they walk away with a hope that they never expected to get and that it changes them, they&#8217;re families and the culture.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><strong>JWK: As you did on the Great American Pure Flix miniseries <em>A Thousand Tomorrows, <\/em>you collaborated on this with your son Tyler Russel who co-wrote the screenplay with you and directed the movie, right? What was that experience like?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>KK: <\/strong>It was amazing! Tyler was so ready for his directorial debut. We co-wrote. When we co-write, we outline together and then we take turns making passes at the script. When we&#8217;re kind of like, okay, we feel like it&#8217;s right where it should be then we sit down at a table and we do a table read and we adjust it to make it (closer to) the final version of the movie.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>When it came to directing, I know nothing about making movies. So, I get to be considered a filmmaker. I was having an opinion and getting to speak to every aspect of the movie but when it came to directing &#8211; once we started rolling cameras &#8211; I just took the backseat&#8230;I had headphones and I just smiled like a proud mom because he killed it as a director! That&#8217;s what people are gonna end up knowing Tyler for. Twenty years from now, I feel like he&#8217;ll be one of the greats. We had big actors from LA that came in and they said he was easily like the favorite director they&#8217;d ever worked. He&#8217;s an actors&#8217; director. Because of that, we got beautiful performances. <strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><strong>JWK: You have a young cast. Do you hope this reaches young audience?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>KK: <\/strong>Absolutely. In fact, when the trailer released it actually went viral on <strong>Tik Tok<\/strong>. I didn&#8217;t have a presence on Tik Tok. I think I had 40 followers. We had just started it. We put the trailer up and it (received) well over two-million views. Another post has eleven-million views. We&#8217;re not paying for that. That&#8217;s just people liking it &#8211; and it&#8217;s young people. Part of that I think is that young people are really wanting the deeper love story. <strong>Hallmark<\/strong> is a lot of fun and that&#8217;s great but (they want) the deeper story that takes you to what happens if someone doesn&#8217;t live? What happens if you find out that some you loved has been lying to you? How do you wrestle with the bigger question as it wraps up into a love story. I think young people are gonna go crazy for this movie.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><strong>JWK: I know the movie is based on your book and the plot is pretty much baked in but, when you and Tyler were writing the screenplay, did you have any disagreements?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>KK: <\/strong>Well, you know, Tyler is really good. He&#8217;s really talented. So, we&#8217;ve learned from each other. Neither of us has an ego. When we come to the table, he&#8217;s a believer in <strong>Jesus<\/strong> like I am. We pray before we work. We want to serve the story because the story belongs to God and what He&#8217;s gonna do with it is what only He can do with it.<\/p>\n<p>In the movie there&#8217;s a pot that has a plant in it that (the character) London gave her mother. It&#8217;s a pot that&#8217;s got broken seams&#8230;The seams are affixed with gold. It&#8217;s called Kasuga. It&#8217;s a Japanese form of pottery. The point is sometimes you&#8217;re most beautiful in the broken places. That&#8217;s all Tyler. That&#8217;s not in the book. Tyler said &#8220;I have this idea! What do you think?&#8221; He always very collaborative that way. He doesn&#8217;t put a big stomping footprint on it. He said &#8220;What do you think about this?&#8221; I loved it! That&#8217;s partly why we co-write together &#8211; because, between the two of us, we&#8217;re bound to come up with a great idea for each scene.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><strong>JWK: The male lead, Jake Allyn, is also in the new Amazon Prime show based on <em>The Baxters<\/em> book series that you wrote.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>KK: <\/strong>Yes. That&#8217;s how I found Jake. In fact, when we started this I thought I know who my lead actor should be for (the character of) Dawson Gage&#8230;He was perfect for Dawson Gage. He is such a talented actor and soon all the world will know. Once they watch <em>Someone Like You<\/em> in theaters they&#8217;re gonna know who Jake Allyn is. <em>The Baxters<\/em> released Easter weekend and everyone around the world got to see that. So, these are two things in my life that are happening at same time. Good for Jake too!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><strong>JWK: How does it feel to have a TV show and a movie launching pretty much at the same time? <em>The Baxters<\/em> took a long time to get there, right?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>KK: <\/strong>It took years &#8211; five plus years. It needed to go through all kinds of transitions &#8211; including Amazon buying <strong>MGM<\/strong> who owns the rights to it. Honestly, the timing could only be God. If you made it up you wouldn&#8217;t think it was real. I have twenty books about <em>The Baxters<\/em>. The fact that (the TV series dropped) Easter weekend and then five days later our first theatrical feature hits the theaters. It&#8217;s just surreal. I&#8217;m truly starting every day and ending every day &#8211; and throughout the day &#8211; just praying &#8220;Lord, keep me centered. Keep me centered on You.&#8221; I want to enjoy it. I am enjoying it. I don&#8217;t feel stressed. I&#8217;m so excited. I&#8217;m in a humble awe of something only God could do.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><strong>JWK: What&#8217;s it like working with Roma Downey?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>KK: <\/strong>She&#8217;s a lovely, lovely woman. She&#8217;s become such a friend over the years. We both agonized over the seasons as we would wait and wait and wait for <em>The Baxters<\/em> to be released. (Besides producing) she&#8217;s also playing Elizabeth Baxter, the matriarch in the family. This is the first time since <strong><em>Touched by an Angel<\/em><\/strong> that she has stepped in front of the camera (to star in a series). She only did that because I begged her to do it. She is perfect as Elizabeth. She&#8217;s tender and kind but she has an edge to her as well, a protective edge for her children. She will fight for them &#8211; whether that&#8217;s on her knees or in some discussion that might go out of the bounds of what she&#8217;s used to talking about. She&#8217;s just really perfect for the part and lovely as a person. She&#8217;s a good friend.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><strong>JWK: How long do you see the show lasting?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>KK: <\/strong>Twenty years. Who knows how they&#8217;ll actually film it but, right now, what we&#8217;re doing is one season per book &#8211; and there are twenty books. Maybe they&#8217;ll put out two or three seasons a year &#8211; so maybe ten years. It&#8217;s the kind of a thing that can grow (and) you can grow with it. I think it&#8217;s similar to the movie<em> Someone Like You<\/em>. You&#8217;re gonna find a character you relate to and that helps you to take the journey with them. Anything that&#8217;s gonna happen in your life that&#8217;s gonna stay with you will happen in the backdoor of your heart. <em>The Baxters<\/em> are like that. People resonate with it. They either feel like it&#8217;s like the family they lived in or it&#8217;s the family they never had. Either way, I think when they tune in to watch <em>The Baxters<\/em> they&#8217;re gonna feel like they&#8217;re coming home.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><strong>JWK: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2024\/03\/roma-downey-on-bringing-the-baxters-to-tv-ashley-bratcher-on-finding-faith-martin-scorsese-comes-to-fox-nation-country-star-paige-king-johnson-on-easter-gratitude-the-chosen-lights.html\">I spoke with Roma Downey last week about the show<\/a>. She calls is a &#8220;hope opera.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>KK: <\/strong>That&#8217;s actually a phrase that we&#8217;ve been both using. My dad coined it from the beginning. When I wrote the first book, <em><strong>Redemption<\/strong><\/em>, my dad read it. He&#8217;s in Heaven now but he read it. He had tears in his eyes and he said &#8220;Karen, everyone needs to know about this. It should be a TV show!&#8221; I said &#8220;Yeah, I agree! It would be so great!&#8221; Maybe I was in my late twenties when I wrote <em>Redemption <\/em>and my dad said &#8220;Karen, you need to contact that <em>Touched by an Angel<\/em> woman Roma Downey. She&#8217;ll make it into a TV show!&#8221; You know, I kind of laughed. I said &#8220;I would love to (but) I don&#8217;t have her phone number.&#8221; It was like an impossibility at that point. Then, maybe fifteen years later, Roma had read the books &#8211; unbeknownst to me. She loved them. She got hold of my phone number through my agent and she called me. I got this phone call. (She had) this beautiful Irish lilt in her voice. She said &#8220;Karen, I love your books <em>The Baxters<\/em>. I would like your blessing to make them into a TV show.&#8221; That was the beginning of our journey. It&#8217;s been a long time but it&#8217;s built patience, faith and trust in God along the way.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><strong>JWK: It&#8217;s amazing that your father suggested the Roma Downey connection all those years ago.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>KK: <\/strong>I really have to believe that my dad (had) a window from Heaven when the series (debuted)&#8230;and again when we&#8217;re all in the theaters for <em>Someone Like You<\/em>. He&#8217;s going to be just beaming. He saw all of this way before I did.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><em>John W. Kennedy is a writer, producer and media development consultant specializing in television and movie projects that uphold positive timeless values, including trust in God. <\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong><em><span class=\"st\">Encourage one another and build each other up &#8211; <\/span><\/em><span class=\"st\">1 Thessalonians 5:11<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media &amp; culture: 04\/02\/24 The Queen of All Media. With more than 25 million copies of her award-winning books in print and a recent TV miniseries, Karen Kingsbury has already established herself as one of America&#8217;s great storytellers. 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