The Erwin Brothers are working on a film based on the 1970’s spiritual awakening in Southern California. It will be called ‘Jesus Revolution’.
According to reports, actors Jim Gaffigan and Joel Courtney have been selected to play the lead roles in the faith-based film.
The Erwin Brothers recently released Jeremy Camp’s biopic “I Still Believe,” which was the No. 1 film in theaters on its opening night.
“Jesus Revolution” was written by Jon Erwin and Jon Gunn. Courtney will play Greg Laurie, senior pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship, who was a counterculture teenager in the late 1960s. At the time, Laurie was seeking meaning and purpose, and it led him to join the Jesus movement in Southern California where the spiritual awakening was commonly known for being spearheaded by a community of teenaged hippies.
Gaffigan will portray Pastor Chuck Smith of Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa, Laurie’s mentor. The minister famously opened his church to all who were seeking and was instrumental in launching the most recent spiritual revival in the United States.
Emmy winner Gaffigan told Deadline — “The late 1960s and early 1970s were a time when spirituality was on the wane, leaving a lot of people searching for answers in other places. I’m excited to play a pastor who helped make a home for the people most desperate for those answers and built a congregation — a coming together of people — to make something greater than themselves.”
The movie’s release date has not yet been determined.