If April Fools day were today, this would be the perfect news announcement. Unfortunately, we’re still in February.
Producer Ralph Winter was just interviewed by Robin Parrish of Infuze Magazine, and after talking about the new Fantastic Four movie that he’s producing and giving scary details about how they want to ruin The Screwtape Letters, he is asked about other upcoming projects.
The only other thing right now is that we’re talking with Rick Warren about making The Purpose-Driven Life with Fox Searchlight.
I remember hearing about those rights being sold. How would that even work? How do you make a story out of something like that?
Well, you’ve got to create a narrative. We’ve been talking with a lot of A-list writers in town, who are very interested. The book has a wide readership — both Christian and non-Christian. So the challenge would be to find the right A-list writer to pair up with Rick, and develop some good stories that would begin to illustrate some of those principles. You couldn’t take all of that stuff and pile all of those principles into one movie. But the idea we’ve been operating off of is doing something structured like Crash, where you have a bunch of different stories that intersect in interesting ways.
That’s still in an early development stage. Rick’s a very busy guy, so it’s moving somewhat slowly. But I think it could be very fun, on down the road.
I just read the interview. Ick. As a Christian: ick. As an artist: ick. Why do these people feel that they have to turn development into sanitization and marketing into pimping? Neither has to be so.