The director behind the extremely profitable faith-based movie, The Jesus Revolutionbrings a brand new sequence in regards to the lifetime of King David to Amazon Prime Video.
Director Jon Erwin and former Netflix govt Kelly Merryman Hoogstraten co-founded The WONDER Challenge, a faith-based and values-based movie studio.
“I imagine leisure goes in opposition to the grain of tradition. And right this moment the world wants a strategy to discover widespread floor once more,” Hoogstraten just lately advised Deadline. “Right here at The WONDER Challenge, our objective is to flood the world with hope.”
“I imagine we will make a distinction by telling tales that renew hope in issues price believing in—household, neighborhood, God and America,” she added. “We're going to do it huge for a world viewers that's searching for religion and value-based leisure. And we're going to offer that viewers a model they will name their very own.”
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With Dallas Jenkins, creator and director of “The Chosen,” as an adviser to the studio, the group landed “Home of David” as the primary undertaking for Prime Video after closing a cope with Amazon MGM Studios.
“Our objective at The WONDER Challenge is to inform tales that restore religion in one thing price believing in,” mentioned Hoogstraten. “We've been impressed by Amazon's dedication to serving to us do that—each by means of the numerous sources they're devoting and their belief in us to authentically inform these tales to our viewers.”
Erwin's portfolio contains The Jesus Revolution, American underdogand I can solely think about.
“Home of David” relies on his thought, Selection experiences.
“With Home of David, the primary undertaking underneath this new deal, we’re setting the stage for a sequence of compelling values-based movies and tv reveals,” mentioned Erwin. “It is a milestone for The WONDER Challenge and we're thrilled to accomplice with an organization that understands and helps our mission and our viewers in such a groundbreaking approach.”
In accordance with a synopsis supplied by the Hollywood Reporter, the sequence “follows the once-mighty King Saul as he turns into a sufferer of his personal delight. A prophet is about to overthrow him – anointing the outcast shepherd David because the second king. As Saul's fury grows, David directs love, violence and politics within the court docket of the very man he’s destined to switch. Two kings. One kingdom. The result’s conflict.”
As reported by CBN Information, The Jesus Revolution, grossed a whopping $52 million in theaters. It opened on the field workplace at #3 and stayed within the prime 10 for a number of weeks.
“The entire cause we made the film was as a result of if God did it earlier than him, God can do it once more,” Erwin advised Christian Headlines. “The world wants the revolution of Jesus, maybe now greater than at some other time in my life.”
The movie tells the true story of the Jesus motion of the Nineteen Seventies, together with how Pastor Chuck Smith welcomed hippies to Calvary Chapel as they sought the reality. This invitation helped foster one of many best non secular awakenings in American historical past.
Greg and his spouse, Cathe Laurie, have been two of the younger individuals Smith welcomed. They have been seekers who quickly grew to become a part of the Jesus motion and ultimately grew to become the pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship.
Laurie wrote the e-book Jesus Revolution, which the film was based mostly on.
Final April, the movie was the most effective vendor on Amazon Prime.
Its success may function a harbinger of how properly “David's Home” will do with Prima's viewers.
“After we met with Jon, Kelly and Dallas, we have been moved by their clear and passionate imaginative and prescient for The Surprise Challenge and their ambition to domesticate common tales of affection, triumph and spirituality,” mentioned Vernon Sanders, head of tv for Amazon MGM Studios. . “We’re very excited in regards to the scale, scope and storytelling behind 'Home of David' and sit up for sharing this epic and plenty of extra with our international Prime Video clients.”
