Re-make of "Left Behind" movie being made, guess who stars in it?

[Archae]

Nicolas Cage.

Rapture in the Age of Hollywood: "Left Behind" Goes Balls to the Wall

Bill Berkowitz printable version print page Bookmark and Share

Wed Apr 09, 2014 at 11:19:55 AM EST

If you don't think religion-themed films are trending, consider this: As of this past weekend, Noah, now in it's second week in theaters, has brought in more than $72 million at the box office; God's Not Dead, more than $32 million in three weeks, and Son of God, more than $58 million in its sixth week in theaters.
Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins are no dummies. And neither is Paul Lalonde. They understand that the first attempts at turning LaHaye and Jenkins' mega-best-selling Left Behind series of apocalyptic novels into a film franchise fell flat. Although three Left Behind films were made, there was little interest -- except amongst the most enthusiastic End Timers -- little buzz generated within the filmmaking community, and not much doing at the box office.

Now, in the spirit of "pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again," LaHaye, Jenkins and Lalonde have garnered a multi-million dollar budget, and plucked a box-office legend for the lead role, and are poised to take full advantage of the latest flood of religion-themed films.

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How "mystical or shuddery" will the rebooted Left Behind film be? While it is no guarantee of box office success, the rebooted Left Behind is scheduled for release in some 1800 theaters nationwide on October 3. The rapture-themed film stars Academy Award winner Nicolas Cage, as well as Chad Michael Murray, Cassi Thomson, Nicky Whelan, Lea Thompson and Jordin Sparks. Vic Armstrong, the stunt coordinator for such action films Thor, The Amazing Spider-Man and War of the Worlds, directs the film, which was shot this past summer in Louisiana.

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[NightWatcher]

1. Kirk Cameron and that Baldwin brother were too busy?

[Cha]

15. Or.. too

moldy.

[yeoman6987]

28. There is plenty of space for all kinds of movies

Next week, "Heaven is for Real" premiers. I would imagine that it won't make 95 million dollars like Captain America did. Studios will make movies on different genres until they stop making money. I noticed that different genres are cyclical too. For example, action may be "hot" for a few years and then suddenly nobody goes.....The Hunger Games did well, but many of the "copies" have failed. It all depends on interest and timing. This year "religious" films are hot, but next year not a soul will attend. Who knows....

[Archae]

43. "Heaven Is For Real"

"Based on a true story..."
Yeah right.

Four-year old hallucinates on operating table, based on his parents' fundy beliefs.

[yeoman6987]

44. I don't know. I was not there. Just mentioning a movie opening.

[rock]

47. What true story are they talking about?

?

[m-lekktor]

40. lol kirk cameron was my first guess

and steve baldwin would fit right in!

[longship]

2. Nicholas Cage descends into oblivion.

You never know what the fates of Hollywood will send a so-called star. While the atheists get sent to hell in the plot, Cage is sent to Hollywood oblivion for acting in a Biblical literalist's story, and not a very good one at that.

What makes LaHaye and Jenkins think a reboot will do any better than the first go around? Talk about God delusions!

What do they think this is? Star Trek?

[Archae]

5. It's not even Biblical literalist.

This whole "Endtimes" fantasy grew out of hysteria about "Jesus' return" and the "End Of The World."

[longship]

6. I know that.

But the end times folks are always claiming Biblical authority, quoting chapter and verse for all their pronouncements and predictions. Jack van Impe, and all the rest of them. They use Biblical literalism as an excuse for their Biblical ventriloquist dummy.

It's the same with all the other Christian fundies, whether it's end times, second coming, lock up the atheists, prayer in schools, women/gays/blacks are inferior, USA is a Christian country, science is evil, etc.

It's always because the Bible tells them so. At least that's what they all claim.

So I think that I will stand by my post.

Best regards.

[warrant46]

53. Jack van Impe = a Legendary Biblical Shill who is in a parallel evil Universe

In a 2012 video, Jack Van Impe said Obama’s reelection fits with the Antichrist’s description. Famous Televangelist Jack Van Impe has predicted the coming of the Apocalypse and Antichrist for years and also opposes Islam, as the evil it is truely proven to be.

[longship]

55. Yup! I used to live in Royal Oak, MI.

Within a mile of his headquarters.

The guy is a real loony.

And his Bible is a true ventriloquist dummy. It says what he wants it to say. Confirmation bias in spades.

[kentauros]

8. If they'd turn it into a comedy,

Cage could at least resurrect his character from "Raising Arizona"

[Cha]

18. They landed Cage as a Box Office draw!! It seems Cage has had some real stinkers.. maybe

he thinks this will revive his career to his glory days of "National Treasure"?

[JustAnotherGen]

20. That was my first thought!

Nicholas Cage descends into oblivion.

Who knew when he outbid Dicaprio for that dinosaur skull a few years ago he would start believing man once walked with them.

[politicat]

48. Mortgage, alimony, wants to invest in an MLM...

It's a job. Slacktivist has been taking this train wreck apart. There already appears to be quite a bit of hoyay subtext in the female cast. (But considering that Slacktivist has been taking apart the books for a decade, this isn't surprising.)

I think this production may be extremely deep satire on the lines of Starship Troopers. It will definitely cry out for an MST3King.

[JustAnotherGen]

54. Don't forget

He outbid Dicaprio on the dinosaur skull -


http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/oct/28/nicolas-cage-dinosaur-skull-illegal-imported

The dinosaur skull bought by actor Nicolas Cage after he outbid fellow A-lister Leonardo DiCaprio could now return to bite him where it hurts, after it is apparently part of a criminal inquiry into illegally imported fossil remains, according to the Daily Telegraph.

Cage paid $276,000 for a Tyrannosaurus bataar skull in July 2007, which the Sunday Telegraph claimed saw him locked in an "intense" auction battle with DiCaprio. Now the paper has followed up their story by saying they have discovered the skull was provided to auctioneers IM Chait by Eric Prokopi, a "commercial paleontologist" who recently pleaded guilty to conspiring to import illegally obtained fossils from Mongolia.

Sorry - I just had to post it again!

[Proud Liberal Dem]

30. He was in "Knowing"

It wasn't really biblically-based per se but had some religious themes and it was *spoiler* apocalyptic, so.............

[AnalystInParadise]

3. It's a stupid movie

why do you care? This is like Rethugs that get bent out of shape every time someone talks about gay marriage. Christian movies are stupid and are just movies, but to some libs/progressives it becomes some kind of pavlovian bell they must talk about.....Talk about giving the righties exactly what they want.....

[HERVEPA]

27. Note to troll

The use of the term "libs" is a dead giveaway.

[Bobbie Jo]

42. +1

Among other breadcrumbs that have been inadvertently scattered along the way.

[Warpy]

4. So they got a name a lot of people know.

However, he's had a few duds so he's not going to be that big a draw.

What they need are real writers who will take the pap written at about a fourth grade level and turn it into a script.

LeHaye, unfortunately, will want his perfect novels done the way they were written, so if he gets his way, this one will bomb too.

[Javaman]

25. it's like bland whipped cream on dog crap. LOL nt

[Silent3]

7. I hope this means people are finally ready to take the Bible as seriously as Harry Potter

But no more seriously.

[loudsue]

9. Bummer. I like Nicolas Cage.

He's done some good parts in the past. What in the hell possessed him to do this crap?

[Archae]

10. $$$

[JaneyVee]

29. He's bankrupt.

[Xyzse]

39. That is very true.

I feel bad for him. Don't like his movies, and can't take him seriously, but I do feel bad for him, and his son Kal-el.

[joshcryer]

11. I laughed out loud at this.

Cage has a "faux-religious" following on Reddit as the "one true god." This made me think of that and I cracked up. Shit, I bet his desire to do this was instructed in part by that.

[Warren DeMontague]

12. ***

[Iggo]

13. He's a fine dramatic actor who works very hard at his craft.

[pinboy3niner]

16. I thought the one who "works very hard at his craft" is Russell Crowe as Noah

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. Given how much grief the fundies

(and Muslims in some Arab nations) are giving to Noah. I want to go watch it.

Also it looks like it is far more loyal to the Bible story than these asshats admit to.

Though they did take some freedoms. Everybody was quiet during the flood until the dove found dry land. That makes for lousy story telling.

And the Noah the vegetarian, yup before the flood we pretty much were. But the fundies have blown gaskets and forced the movie to have disclaimers. I suspect more than a few pretty agnostic people (like myself) added it to the movies to watch list just to piss them off.

[Xyzse]

41. Actually you're right.

When I was told that there are Rock monsters in the movie by a friend, I started laughing and got curious.
When I heard a nun mention that the movie technically stayed true to the bible, because the biblical story didn't really give much detail... I begin to think, that I should watch the damn thing.

[nadinbrzezinski]

50. I am personally curious to what part of the Babylonian

Mother myth made it to screen.

[sakabatou]

17. Ugh...

[Codeine]

19. "a box-office legend for the lead role"

Words have meanings, motherfuckers.

[JustAnotherGen]

21. My thought exactly

He hasn't had a critical hit since Leaving Las Vegas.

[hatrack]

22. And that was . . . 1995? 1996?

Something like that . . .

Hope they lose their shirts.

[Coventina]

32. I hope his career suffers a "critical hit"

due to participating in this abomination.



Sorry, had a D&D moment there.....

[Safeenlobcen]

23. Re-make of "Left Behind" movie being made, guess who stars in it?

I think in Left Behind Nicolas Cage will show his different style of acting as well all know that the movie topic is all on the plane and the plan were crashed something.. Such a great actor I said...

Left Behind 2014 Cast

[n2doc]

24. This should be a classic!

[hatrack]

26. Why, it could be another "Atlas Shrugged"!!!!

[Coventina]

31. As someone who still carries psychological scars from childhood

due to being raised with Rapture theories, I hate this news.

As a child, in my single-digit years, I was forced to watch movies like "A Thief In The Night" and such.

As a small child with insecurity issues, this messed me up royally.

I believed the doctrine, but never had enough self-worth to believe I would be one of the raptured.

I would be left alone in the Beast-ruled world, forced to take the Mark, or be beheaded.

It's a horrible, horrible theory and I'm deeply disappointed that people who should know better would be involved with such a project.

How many idiotic, fundie parents (like my own) are going to take their young children to see this new movie?

I'm betting: quite a few.

I weep for those children.

[Heidi]

33. Right on.

[Coventina]

34. Thanks!

Support means SO MUCH, I can't even tell you.

[Heidi]

35. I was raised Southern Baptist.

In Oklahoma. My parents weren't really fundies, but non-fundie church choices were nonexistent in our small town. You've got my support, for sure.

[Coventina]

36. I sort of had a strange combo in my family.

My dad was (is) a strict Presbyterian of the old-style and my mother was a "holy-roller."

So, I was raised with Calvinist doctrine (the total depravity of man - you are intrinsically a bad person) from my dad's tradition, and all the Rapture, Tribulation, speaking in tongues stuff on my mom's.

It makes for a scary jambalaya, let me tell you.....

[NikolaC]

37. I Sympathize With You

I had a similar experience with those cheesy films. I remember them showing all three movies of that series in church when I was growing up. Parents brought kids as young as three and four to watch it and I may have been about eight or nine when I first saw them. It was very traumatizing and that was the point.

I remember one scene in particular when they marched adults and a small child holding a red balloon out to the guillotine because they would not take the mark. They wanted to scare the adults and children into accepting Jesus as their savior and usually had success at the end of the showings when they made the call. A lot of those who went forward were kids.

The only difference that I see here is that people will have to pay to go and see the series in the movie theaters.

[Coventina]

38. A fellow survivor!

So nice to meet you!

I don't run in to many, I guess because they're still in the lifestyle?

On the other hand, it's not exactly something that comes up in conversation much.



I seriously believe that making children watch those movies is child abuse.

[NikolaC]

46. I Agree With You

It is abusive and manipulative and they know that. to you as well. I really feel for anyone who went through that and are still going through it. IOW how manipulating people to come to Jesus out of fear instead of true and genuine emotion and faith was a good way to recruit souls.

I'm no longer a part of that world and, for me, my religious beliefs are private and should not be forced on anyone else. It took me a long time to undo some of the damage that was done mentally and emotionally when I went to that church and school.

[joeybee12]

45. Two reasons Cage did this...1, he's is desperate for money...

2...he's a major asshole.

[Blue_Tires]

49. I figured this was coming sooner or later

audiences have been eating up the post-apocalyptic/end of civilization genre for a few years now in movies, books, TV shows and video games...

[bitchkitty]

51. I had heard that Nicholas Cage will take any role.

Now I certainly believe it.

[JHB]

52. We're gonna need a bigger phone bank...