What's the true story(Possible Spoilers)
I'm curious: What is the true story behind the film? Also, Is the Joel Smallbone character, James Stevens based on a real person?
shareThe poster actually says "Inspired by true stories" so I don't think it's any one story but sort of an amalgam of different stories involving human trafficking.
shareYeah, that could be right. It would be interesting though if the character of James Stevens is based on a real person though.
shareit's based on you
shareSince I made that previous post I did find an interview with Luke who mentioned the true story aspect - seems it was heavily "inspired" but with some basis in truth.
"How did you stumble upon the story of James Stevens and what made you want to make this story into a movie?...
My brother Ben was working on a documentary about seven or eight years ago, and he stumbled upon a dude that is in Brazil and he had been working at one point in his life kind of on the other side of the law. He was a criminal, and he radically changed and he decided to start on the things that he knew, [saying] “Hey, how can I work against the system and take everything I learned from being a criminal and use it for good,” and we were really inspired by that. And so we kind of interjected those stories and those things into our film and what’s crazy is that man, we don’t even know his name, we never saw his face. Even the documentary that my brother Ben did hid his face, and it’s kind of cool because we never got to interview him yet this guy that we don’t even know, he inspired a whole movement and, in a roundabout way, is coming out in this film. So this guy’s not going to know that, in fact, he is having a worldwide impact."
Source: http://rockingodshouse.com/for-king-and-countrys-luke-smallbone-talks-his-new-movie-priceless-now-in-theaters/
Cool! :) Thanks! Hope this guy finds out one day, what an impact he had! 😃
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