I said it’s been easy because we’re best friends. “We’re preparing to celebrate our fiftieth anniversary in August and recently a friend getting married asked what advice I could give him. “We became best friends before we became a couple and that’s given us a solid foundation,” Strobel proposed. She went home and told her mother that she’d met the boy she was going to marry, and they dated off and on through high school and college. While The Case for Heaven has its genesis in a moment when Strobel almost died, its foundation goes back further, to the relationship he began as a fourteen-year-old with his now-wife, Leslie.

It’s one thing to write a book presenting evidence of Jesus or heaven, but when you’re making a movie, you don’t want to present something that presents dry facts.” Looking back at making the previous movie, I would tell my old self to trust the experts, the people who know film and have the same vision for getting out the truth.” The translation from book to movie is driven by the director and the producers who cast the vision, and help me see the potential.

“I tend to be a word person, not a visual person. Without them, the author says there would be no movie. Mani and his brother Gil started a design and marketing company which now has a staff of thirty people, even as they’ve broadened their scope to make a documentary. Strobel explained that the Sandovals immigrated from Guatemala, and grew up in rough conditions in south central Los Angeles where their father was a pastor. Mani has worked hard, traveling the whole country, from Oregon to Louisiana, from Chicago to Phoenix, trying to get the right feel for the film.” When I said it was good, he said it wasn’t good enough and reshot a dozen scenes. “Jon showed me a rough cut and asked me what I thought. “The commonality with the films is the pursuit of excellence by the directors,” Strobel explained.

The author’s appreciation for the work of Jon Gunn with The Case for Christ is reflected in his thoughts about the work Sandoval did this time around. While he explored the feature-filmmaking business with the biopic A Case for Christ, this film features the documentary work of director Mani Sandoval, as he and Strobel criss-crossed the country interviewing experts to find out if heaven can be taken seriously. Lee Strobel is coming back to movie theaters with the cinematic version of The Case for Heaven, a Fathom Event April 4-6, only in theaters.

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