They just thought it would be marketable. I didn’t hear anything about a larger purpose in doing it. I didn’t hear any mention of a high level of collaborative input. But I was never really happy with what I was hearing–I never really had the sense that the material that I’d brought into the space through my books would be placed on film in a way that I could agree with.
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“I never really got any offers,” he explained, “but I did have many casual conversations and informal overtures from television and movie producers. It was that existing relationship that led Walsch to offer the rights to “Conversations With God” to Simon, although he had turned down previous feelers from others. “They were looking for some irascible, cranky old guy to play the grandfather in that movie, and this crazy guy asked me if I wanted to play the role,” Walsch said. Walsch, who wrote the book on which the film is based–literally a conversation he had with God at a time when, having lost a radio job after a bout of homelessness, he was personally at a very low ebb–had met Simon some years ago, when he attended a preview screening of “What Dreams May Come” (which Simon produced), and got to know him better more recently, when he took a part in Simon’s first directorial project, “Indigo.” And we went to Neil in November, 2004, made a deal for the rights, and then started o develop the project.”
“When the Spiritual Cinema Circle launched in spring 2004,” Simon explained, “we became so successful so quickly, with subscribers in seventy countries, that by the fall of that year we decided that we wanted to make an original film. “Conversations” is the Circle’s first production, and is being distributed to theaters by the Samuel Goldwyn Company.
Simon is also the co-founder and spokesman for The Spiritual Cinema Circle, a monthly DVD service that provides four films on spiritual subjects to subscribers each month. “If God is speaking to humanity through my books, and I believe God is, then surely God is speaking to humanity through this movie,” author Neale Donald Walsch said of “Conversations with God” during a recent Dallas interview in which he was accompanied by the picture’s producer-director Stephen Simon.
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