The director (Harold Cronk) had worked with Ernie Hudson before and loved working with him, and we wanted to work with him.”ĭavid added that Melissa Joan Hart has become more outspoken regarding her faith and that this film is a step for her to embrace that in the public eye. Sadie Robertson came through from the first one, from the Robertsons (Willie and Korie Robertson), so there are different stories behind each and every one of them. “Melissa Joan Hart-we’d heard that she was a believer and we wanted to find something for her too. He had wanted to cast Pat for a time and felt his role in this film was perfect for him. “I just loved his personality” said David. David had done an interview with Pat on CNN approximately three years ago and said he was just amazed at how well spoken he was. We brought back some of the original cast but we also wanted to bring in a whole group of new talent we had not worked with.”ĭavid added they had wanted to work with Pat Boone for quite a while. If you’ve seen a lot of the Pure Flix films you probably notice a lot of the same people, recurring actors in the films. That stood out to me-how he just took care of them, they were like family to him. I was on a show called The Evening Shade with Burt Reynolds in the early 90s when I first moved to town, and one of the things that I loved was that Burt would literally have all these people on the show that he had worked with over the years. As an actor myself I’ve known a lot of the people that have been in our films and have a relationship with a lot of the actors. We were involved in shaping the story but they really came up with it and did such a great job.”ĭove: How much input did you have regarding casting and how were the choices made?ĭavid: “Well, the casting-I’m pretty hands-on, on that. They went around and looked at different cases. Our writers, Chuck Konzelman and Cary Solomon, they wrote the first one, and they worked with Rice Brooks on this story. We went around to different groups and enquired about different cases that were going on in real-life situations and wanted to build a story out of them. As in the first one we listed around 50 court cases at the end credits that bring attention to some of the discrimination that’s going on, in trying to take away our religious liberties and religious freedoms. We’ve kind of been defining what is the ‘God’s Not Dead’ brand. Recently I had a chance to sit down with one of the producers and actors of the new film “God’s Not Dead 2” and he had some interesting things to say about the film and decisions that went into making this sequel.ĭove: “God’s Not Dead 2” is even better than the first one!ĭove: What inspired the follow-up to the first movie?ĭavid: “Well, we didn’t want to just do a sequel to do a sequel.
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