Hollywood heaven is a box office hit made within a reasonable budget.
We have news from Variety that Randall Wallace is developing an adaptation of “Heaven is for Real,” the bestseller by Todd Burpo and Lynn Vincent. Wallace is best known for writing screenplays like “Braveheart.” He directed the 2010 film “Secretariat.”
Joe Roth is producing through his Roth Films along with T.D. Jakes. Christopher Parker is writing the adaptation.
Here’s the description of the book from Amazon:
A young boy emerges from life-saving surgery with remarkable stories of his visit to heaven.
Heaven Is for Real is the true story of the four-year old son of a small town Nebraska pastor who during emergency surgery slips from consciousness and enters heaven. He survives and begins talking about being able to look down and see the doctor operating and his dad praying in the waiting room. The family didn’t know what to believe but soon the evidence was clear.
Colton said he met his miscarried sister, whom no one had told him about, and his great grandfather who died 30 years before Colton was born, then shared impossible-to-know details about each. He describes the horse that only Jesus could ride, about how “reaaally big” God and his chair are, and how the Holy Spirit “shoots down power” from heaven to help us.
Told by the father, but often in Colton’s own words, the disarmingly simple message is heaven is a real place, Jesus really loves children, and be ready, there is a coming last battle.
Well, there’s an audience for this, and the industry would be foolish not to serve them. No dates on this, but I would guess late 2013, early 2014.
