It’s been some time since we were sent a religious offering from the big screen that was not either overtly controversial or similarly comedic.
Recently Chris Morris’s dark hearted comedy Four Lions followed a group of young Muslim men living in Sheffield who decide to become suicide bombers. He described the film as a “farce, which exposes the Dads Army side to terrorism”, and the film makes clear the void between religion and terrorism.
News emerges today (via Variety) of a rather more sombre affair heading our way – that the religious drama Heretics is to be made into a film directed by Marc Forster (Quantum of Solace). Here’s their take on the story,
Heretics centers on Carlton Pearson, who was a rising star among evangelicals until he was ostracized by his own church and declared a heretic after he started preaching that there is no Hell.
“This film lets us tell a story about evangelical Christians from their perspective, not from the outside,” said producer Ira Glass. “And at its heart, it’s a classic old-fashioned movie plot: a man who stands up for what he believes and loses everything because of it.”
With Forster still tied up in the production of Machine Gun Preacher and with a second film announced for 2011 the Heretics proposal is still only a potential, but the prospect is promising.
Reported by Jenny Clayton
