Nicholas Cage Talks About Inspiration Behind Taking Left Behind Role

By Elizabeth Nelson

Have you noticed lately, there have been a number of Christian themed movies hitting the silver screen? People are searching for hope in our dark days, so we're watching people fill theaters to watch titles like the smash-hit "God is not Dead," "Son of God," a faith-based inspirational sports movie, "When the Game Stands Tall," and "Heaven is Real."

Now we're about to witness what I'm sure will be, if it's anything like the books, an intense movie next month, "Left Behind," which is based on the bestselling novel - starring many stars we will all recognize.
Stars like Nicholas Cage, Lea Thompson, Cassi Thomson and Jordin Sparks who are just a few of the bigger names in the movie. However, in a liberal controlled Hollywood, what would posses them to venture out in a such taboo project?  This is about Jesus and the Rapture, after all.  This is about Heaven and Hell.

Come to find out Cage's brother is a Pastor and introduced him to the book.  Isn't this typical and the Christian way? We plant the seeds and water them, waiting for God to give the increase, waiting for such a time as this, when Cage with testify before the world in this movie, because the Rapture is coming, and it could happen any day.

“My brother, Marc, is a Christian pastor, and he was very excited about this,” Cage told reporters in a press conference touting the film’s Oct. 3 debut. “He said, you know, Nicky, you’ve really got to do this.

“I’d already wanted to make the movie because I thought it was such a great script and an opportunity again to do something challenging,” Cage continued, “but when I saw how passionate [Marc] was, I thought, well, yeah, I want to make this movie for my brother, too.”

Cage made similar comments in a Facebook video, where he says his brother “inspired me to look at ['Left Behind'].”

Cage’s brother, Marc “The Cope” Coppola, is perhaps better known as an actor and classic rock DJ on New York City’s WAXQ-Radio.

Jordin Sparks, the “American Idol” winner who plays airplane passenger “Shasta Carvell” in the movie, told reporters she was inspired to join the cast by reading as a teen the “Left Behind” books that form the basis of the film.

“I just remember being so affected by the thought of, wow, what if my closest friends just disappeared one day? What if they just weren’t here?” she said. “As a kid that’s definitely very scary. … [You might think], ‘It’s just in a book,’ but you know, when you read the Bible and you take those things to be truth, you know it is definitely something that you can think of and go, ‘Wow, that could actually happen.’”

Sparks also said this version of “Left Behind” is delivering a message relevant to audiences of all faiths.

“The great thing about this movie … because of the people that they have brought into the film, they have the ability to have people from all over come in and see the movie whether they are believers, whether they’re non-believers,” she said. “Whether they are agnostic, whether they don’t believe in anything, it doesn’t even matter. … I think everybody can relate to imagining, ‘What if somebody that I loved wasn’t around anymore, in an instant?’ It can definitely happen, whether it is through being taken up in the Rapture or a tragic accident. Life isn’t promised to us here; tomorrow is not promised.”

Cage similarly was drawn to the movie’s universal themes. “I was very taken by the family dynamic that plays out in this script,” Cage said. “That’s what I want … to come across, that people realize we all make mistakes, but in a moment of crisis what we really want, what we really go back to is the love we have for our families.”

He continued, “Ray Steele gets back to his true need for family through this extraordinary experience and understands the value of family and just wants to get back to that no matter what happens. Just to be able to get back on the phone with his daughter [and] say, ‘I’m sorry,’ and say, ‘I love you.’ And I think it’s as simple as that. I think that is heart-wrenching. And if you have a heart, I don’t think it’s possible to see the movie and not get a little verklempt. I mean it: There’s some very poignant, emotional moments.” Continue Reading WND

 

Could it be that our Country is tired of Obama's "Hopeless Change" and they are yearning  for real Hope and the Hope and Change that can only come from one place, the one and true Living God?

Now, maybe you've heard about the 144,000 elect, left after the rapture that would endure to the end, maybe your grandma or momma has been praying for you.  Perhaps  you're a gambler or a procrastinator and like to push things to the last minute, including your eternal salvation, and now you want to know; will the people, who heard the truth, denied the invitation of Christ and were left behind, will they get a yet another chance to accept Christ and go to Heaven and be reunited with their loved ones and Jesus Christ, or will they meet their doom and fate in Hell?

Why waste time looking for the 13th hour on the clock, when you know it only goes to 12? You'd better find out the answer, now, my friend.  The answer is found in 2 Thessalonians 13.  Listen to my Pastor, from North Jacksonville Baptist Church, Dr. Herb Reavis, explain it to you.  Listen to the Podcast Happy Hearts here.