Faith ‘n Fiction: Books to Movies

Amy of My Friend Amy’s blog hosts the weekly event, “Faith ‘n Fiction Saturdays” where we get to answer questions about Christian fiction!

Today’s post asks:

We’ve been blessed to finally start seeing some of our favorite Christian books come to life on film. So far, these have been largely low budget films, but they generally get the heart of the books across. But my question for you is…if you had an unlimited budget, what Christian fiction book would you like to see made into a film? Who would you cast in the main roles? Would you have a preference on director? Any songs you’d like to see on the soundtrack?

Hands-down, I’d want to see Robin Parrish’s “Dominion Trilogy” come to the big screen! They’re such fantastic books, and they’re the PERFECT type of suspense thriller that would transfer well to the screen — and probably attract a TON of viewers, too! The books, themselves, are written in such a way that even non-Christians can thoroughly enjoy them without feeling like they’re reading a “Christian” book — there’s almost NOTHING (until the third book, anyway) to suggest that these are Christian fiction. They’re just good, clean –VERY well-written!– suspense thrillers!

As for who to cast in the roles, I’m not sure. Because these books don’t have any of the “Christian-ese” in them, really, basically any actor could play the roles. Main character, Grant Borrows, is telekinetic, so we could maybe cast Zachary Quinto (“Sylar” from the tv series, “Heroes“). In fact, any of the cast members from “Heroes” would fit for the parts of the “Dominion” trilogy movies, as the books are full of the same sort of thing that you’d find in “Heroes“! LOL.

No preference on director for the film(s) as I’m not thoroughly ‘up’ on who’s who in that business. Maybe we could use one of the guys that did the Marvel Comic-type movies. That might work.

As for music, I have NO idea… totally don’t know what would fit.