According to foreign media reports, the famous actor Christian Bell has a new film plan to be exposed. He is known to play a drug dealer priest in a film called "The Church of the Living Dangerously." Currently, Charles Randolph (The Big Short, Breaking News) is working on the screenplay for the film.
The film is based on David Kushner's article of the same name published in Vanity Fair, which tells the legendary life of John Lee Bishop. Bishop was once a prominent American pastor who ran a church in Portland. The church occupies an area of 8500 square feet and is huge in size. In addition, Bishop has a performative personality, so it is popular with the local people. He brought exotic animals to preach on Noah's Ark, and once nearly got bitten by a Bengal tiger, and after becoming famous, he became richer and richer. Bishop had a bad childhood when his uncle organized him and other children to participate in bare-handed fight club matches for their amusement. So, after his son David was infected with methamphetamine and heroin, he was determined not to fail his son and insisted on taking drugs with him to understand its effects, which led Bishop to embark on the path of smuggling drugs for the Mexican group. After running errands 20 times, Bishop was arrested at the Mexican border, convicted and sentenced to five years in prison.
For Bell, playing such a controversial and personality-changing character is not difficult. At present, there are no specific shooting and release plans for the film. However, judging from the behind-the-scenes team of the film, "Church of Dangerous Life" is very promising to enter the awards season.