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| I'm Excited About The Sequel to the Movie 'God's Not
Dead' |
 Some of the cast members from "God's Not Dead 2,"
including Melissa Joan Hart, third from right.
One of the most successful
Christian movies of 2014 was a low-budget film about apologetics called God's
Not Dead. It was made for a little over $1 million, but grossed $100 million at
the box office, including DVD sales. It now has more than 7 million fans on
Facebook.
I knew about the movie before it happened because it was based
on the book by the same title written by my longtime friend Rice Broocks. I knew
Rice was a passionate apologist for the Christian faith and skilled at
explaining complex Christian concepts in a way anyone could understand. I was
also aware of the many faith films being made—most of them were mediocre. So I
was skeptical when Rice called wanting coverage for the movie, especially since
they were having trouble getting theaters to screen the movie. But wanting to
encourage any effort to bring Christ into the wider culture, we gave the movie
extensive coverage right at its release launch.
I'm not the only one
who liked the movie. When we ran our article, it was shared and reshared by our
readers. The first weekend, the relatively few theaters showing the film were
nearly sold out. The number of theaters showing the movie doubled the second
week. Clearly something was happening. The rest is history.
I tell you
this because last week I visited the set for God's Not Dead 2 in
Arkansas. I was the guest of Troy Duhon, who provided the funding for the first
God's Not Dead movie (which an insider told me may be one of the most
successful movies in history based on return on investment).
I wasn't
sure what to expect for a sequel, though. Would it be the same actors in a
different setting? I rewatched the first as I flew to the set and noticed all
sorts of subtleties in plot and characterization that I missed the first time I
saw it.
I was impressed again by how good the movie was: the acting,
cinematography, the Louisiana State University location. The film even featured
a huge rock concert from the Newsboys and a scene where car struck and killed
one of the main characters (but not before he accepted Christ).
The basis
of the plot is how a young Christian university student defended his faith
(using apologetics arguments from Rice Broocks' book) in his philosophy class
before a hostile atheistic professor. Yet it had interesting subplots that
somehow all fit together: a leftist reporter who discovered she was dying of
cancer ...
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