By Leah MarieAnn Klett, Assistant Editor
NEW YORK — “I Can Easiest Keep in mind 2,” the highly anticipated sequel to the 2018 box office success “I Can Easiest Keep in mind,” will soon delivery manufacturing and collect where the final movie ended, specializing in MercyMe’s 2d biggest hit, “Even If.”
Talking to The Christian Put up at the pink carpet premiere of his movie “The Unbreakable Boy,” producer Kevin Downes stated Lionsgate and Kingdom Account Firm are location to delivery manufacturing on the movie in the impending weeks.
The first movie, a faith-basically based mostly drama that grossed over $83 million domestically, urged the worthy appropriate myth of MercyMe lead singer Bart Millard and the creation of the band’s iconic music. Downes and co-administrators Andrew Erwin and Brent McCorkle are ready to proceed the hunch, exploring the subsequent chapter of Millard’s existence and music.
“In six weeks. Andy Erwin and I delivery on a sequel for ‘I Can Easiest Keep in mind 2,'” Downes stated. “We’re excited. We’re totally solid up. We’re ready to enter the persevering with myth where the first one left off, the Bart Millard myth.”
The sequel will all another time star John Michael Finley as Bart Millard, with Dennis Quaid reprising his impartial as Millard’s father, Arthur, and Label Adkins returning as MercyMe’s supervisor, Scott Brickell. In a tender addition, Milo Ventimiglia (“This Is Us,” “Rocky Balboa”) has joined the solid as Christian musician Tim Timmons, a key figure in MercyMe’s hunch.
“The addition of Milo Ventimiglia to the solid to play Tim Timmons goes to be so extra special,” Downes stated. “That dude is so all in, we’re pinching ourselves. Or no longer it’s actual going to be one among those relaxing experiences to movie because all of us know the movie goes to be upright.”
The first movie delved into Millard’s disquieted previous, his father’s transformation by faith, and the creation of “I Can Easiest Keep in mind,” basically the most straightforward-promoting Christian single of all time. The sequel, Downes confirmed, will apply MercyMe’s subsequent chapter and the music that outlined it.
“The music that we give consideration to starts with ‘Keep in mind,’ so which that you just can well presumably be going to acquire the final feels of the dwell of ‘I Can Easiest Keep in mind’ when it became launched,” Downes explained. “And then the music it ends up monitoring is their 2d biggest hit, which became known as ‘Even If.’ I enjoy the script — there are this kind of lot of entry capabilities personality-wise into it.”
MercyMe’s “Even If” became one more chart-topping music that equipped a poignant message of faith in the face of suffering. The music became impressed by Millard’s skills with his son’s illness, a deeply deepest warfare that fashioned the band’s music and ministry.
“My son, Sam, is 15 years pale, and he’s been a diabetic since he became 2. For those who would possibly well presumably be a guardian of a kid with any form of chronic illness, these gadgets don’t poke away. You’ve got gotten a lot of upright days, however some days which that you just can well presumably be feeling such as which that you just can well presumably be shedding wicked. I became in the midst of one among those wicked days when ‘Even If’ became written,” Millard beforehand stated of the music.
Lyrics encompass the lines: “They are saying it entirely takes reasonably of faith/ To tear a mountain/ Successfully upright element/ A little bit faith is all I unquestionably dangle, actual now/ Nonetheless God, when You decide/ To leave mountains unmovable/ Oh give me the strength so to command/ It is a long way neatly with my soul. … I do know You are ready and I do know You would/ Set by the fire with Your mighty hand/ Nonetheless although You don’t/ My hope is You alone.”
In 2018, Millard applauded filmmakers for doing what he termed a “sizable job with a redemption myth, adding: “Or no longer it’s form of scary making a faith-basically based mostly movie. I didn’t wish it to be low-inserting fruit or form of a corny movie, and I mediate they did a unquestionably sizable job of shooting the emotion. There were some scenes for me, in watching the movie, that made me unquestionably dreadful — because I became form of reliving it, and I mediate that is a signal of a job neatly performed.”
“I Can Easiest Keep in mind 2” is being helmed by administrators McCorkle and Erwin, who co-wrote the screenplay with Millard. Kingdom Account Firm, which Downes co-basically based with the Erwin brothers, continues its mission of telling faith-driven reports that encourage and uplift.
Downes urged CP the creative team behind the movie believes “I Can Easiest Keep in mind 2” will resonate actual as strongly because the distinctive. “All of us know the movie goes to be upright,” he stated. “I will no longer wait. Or no longer it’d be sizable.”
Leah M. Klett is a reporter for The Christian Put up. She can even be reached at: leah.klett@christianpost.com
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