Thursday, January 13, 2005

Conversations With God: The Movie

Spiritual Cinema Circle

CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD spent 3 years on the New York Times bestseller list, sold over 7 million copies in 34 languages and launched thousands of discussion groups around the world.

Over the past ten years, Walsch has received multiple offers from producers (and one major studio) to turn his book and life story into a film. He turned them all down because he did not want his story to be "Hollywood-ized."

Last year, Stephen Simon, The Circle's co-founder and veteran Hollywood producer of SOMEWHERE IN TIME, WHAT DREAMS MAY COME and 23 other features, directed Neale in the film INDIGO (which premieres on January 29 in 100 Digital AMC Theaters and more than 400 churches around the world - see www.indigothemovie.com).

While working on Indigo, (Neale played the grandfather of an Indigo child), Walsch observed that Simon has "an extraordinarily high level of artistic integrity, vision, and willingness to collaborate" and he finally agreed to have the CWG story told on the big screen.

And this is no ordinary story.

"Just five years before I became an author, I was homeless, with a broken neck, living in a park. I spent my days collecting cans to sell for $5 a day just to have enough money to eat and live. It was important to me that my story not become Hollywood-ized," Walsch explains.

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