{"id":11827,"date":"2016-12-02T16:57:42","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T21:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=11827"},"modified":"2016-12-02T16:57:42","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T21:57:42","slug":"best-selling-novel-the-shack-hits-the-big-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2016\/12\/best-selling-novel-the-shack-hits-the-big-screen.html","title":{"rendered":"Best-Selling Novel, &#8220;The Shack,&#8221; Hits the Big Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Based on the New York Times best-selling novel by William P. Young,\u00a0<em>The Shack\u00a0<\/em>is being translated to the movie screen in the new year. The faith-based Christian drama film will take you through a father&#8217;s emotional and uplifting spiritual journey.<\/p>\n<p>After suffering a family tragedy, Mack Phillips (Sam Worthington) spirals into a deep depression causing him to question his innermost beliefs. Facing a crisis of faith, he receives a mysterious letter urging him to an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Despite his doubts, Mack journeys to the shack and encounters an enigmatic trio of strangers led by a woman named Papa (Octavia Spencer). Through this meeting, Mack finds important truths that will transform his understanding of his tragedy and change his life forever.<\/p>\n<p>Starring Sam Worthington, Graham Greene, Octavia Spencer, Radha Mitchell, and Tim McGraw,\u00a0<em>The Shack\u00a0<\/em>will hit theaters on March 3rd, 2017. For a first-look at the video, check out the trailer.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CL0yUbSS5Eg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on the New York Times best-selling novel by William P. Young,\u00a0The Shack\u00a0is being translated to the movie screen in the new year. The faith-based Christian drama film will take you through a father&#8217;s emotional and uplifting spiritual journey. After suffering a family tragedy, Mack Phillips (Sam Worthington) spirals into a deep depression causing him&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":600,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,7,3,1643],"tags":[3231,3229,3233,3230,3228,3232],"class_list":["post-11827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-entertainment","category-movies","category-theater-2","tag-2017-movie","tag-best-selling-novel","tag-christian-drama","tag-official-trailer","tag-the-shack","tag-william-p-young"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Best-Selling Novel, &quot;The Shack,&quot; Hits the Big Screen<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Based on the 2007 novel of the same name, &quot;The Shack&quot; takes users on an emotional and spiritual journey as a father learns how to handle a tragic loss.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2016\/12\/best-selling-novel-the-shack-hits-the-big-screen.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Best-Selling Novel, &quot;The Shack,&quot; Hits the Big Screen\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Based on the 2007 novel of the same name, &quot;The Shack&quot; takes users on an emotional and spiritual journey as a father learns how to handle a tragic loss.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2016\/12\/best-selling-novel-the-shack-hits-the-big-screen.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Idol Chatter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-12-02T21:57:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Megan Bailey\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Best-Selling Novel, \"The Shack,\" Hits the Big Screen","description":"Based on the 2007 novel of the same name, \"The Shack\" takes users on an emotional and spiritual journey as a father learns how to handle a tragic loss.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2016\/12\/best-selling-novel-the-shack-hits-the-big-screen.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Best-Selling Novel, \"The Shack,\" Hits the Big Screen","og_description":"Based on the 2007 novel of the same name, \"The Shack\" takes users on an emotional and spiritual journey as a father learns how to handle a tragic loss.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2016\/12\/best-selling-novel-the-shack-hits-the-big-screen.html","og_site_name":"Idol Chatter","article_published_time":"2016-12-02T21:57:42+00:00","author":"Megan Bailey","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2016\/12\/best-selling-novel-the-shack-hits-the-big-screen.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2016\/12\/best-selling-novel-the-shack-hits-the-big-screen.html","name":"Best-Selling Novel, \"The Shack,\" Hits the Big Screen","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/#website"},"datePublished":"2016-12-02T21:57:42+00:00","dateModified":"2016-12-02T21:57:42+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/#\/schema\/person\/03d3c6d022f04655d71d8c66b4614dc2"},"description":"Based on the 2007 novel of the same name, \"The Shack\" takes users on an emotional and spiritual journey as a father learns how to handle a tragic loss.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2016\/12\/best-selling-novel-the-shack-hits-the-big-screen.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2016\/12\/best-selling-novel-the-shack-hits-the-big-screen.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2016\/12\/best-selling-novel-the-shack-hits-the-big-screen.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Best-Selling Novel, &#8220;The Shack,&#8221; Hits the Big Screen"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/","name":"Idol Chatter","description":"Beliefnet Entertainment blog, TV blog, Movie blog, Religion in entertainment blog","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/#\/schema\/person\/03d3c6d022f04655d71d8c66b4614dc2","name":"Megan Bailey","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/069\/06974c669f30cf83f15ef2892dfe26cex96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/069\/06974c669f30cf83f15ef2892dfe26cex96.jpg","caption":"Megan Bailey"},"url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/author\/mbailey"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11828,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11827\/revisions\/11828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}