Focusing on then-skeptic Strobel's life as a journalist in 1980, as he's obsessively trying to both crack a cop-shooting case and disprove Christianity so his newly born-again wife will see the 'error' of her ways, director Jon Gunn (no relation to James) and writer Brian Bird have taken their cues from David Fincher's Zodiac. Jim Dobson, but it is an effective marketing strategy to pre-seed automatic interest in your next film by mentioning the subject's importance during the plot of the prior one.īecause the original book is essentially a nonfiction collection of interviews and sources - and has already been made into a 2007 direct-to-video documentary featuring Strobel and his subjects - the fiction-film adaptation required some creative restructuring, and the filmmakers appear to have found it in an unlikely place. Now, granted, I don't actually think this is leading up to any kind of Evangelical Author Avengers featuring, let's say, Strobel, Tim LaHaye, Bishop T.D. Lo and behold, like a holier Han Solo, Strobel is now the main character of his own 'spin-off prequel' of sorts, also called The Case for Christ, and distributed and produced by Pure Flix (with Triple Horse Studios). One of the Christian celebrities who appeared in the film was journalist-turned-pastor-and-author Lee Strobel, playing himself as a witness for the heroine's defense, and plugging his Christian apologetic book The Case for Christ. God's Not Dead 2 ended with a tease for a part three, but that's not all it did.

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