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Neale Donald Walsch’s Conversations with God series
is an internationally bestselling phenomenon—Book 1 remained on the
New York Times Bestseller List for 2½ years, sold over 7 million copies,
and has been translated into 36 languages. Now, the dialogue that has
touched countless hearts—and the story of the man who wrote it—is brought to life on the big screen in a film directed by Stephen Simon.
His personal relationships had failed. His career tracks had dead-ended. Now his health was threatened. Neale Donald Walsch, at age 48, was financially destitute and in a state of chronic depression. From this low place of frustration and desperation, Neale vented himself by writing an angry letter to God on a yellow legal pad. At the end of an almost hysterical writing frenzy, near physical and emotional collapse, he was unable to release the pen from his hand. Then a voice moved inside Neale’s head, and he wrote what the voice said.
“Neale, do you really want answers to all these questions, or are you just venting?” Neale later called this “uncommon dialogue” with an infinite source a conversation with God, and his series of the same name went on to become an internationally bestselling phenomenon. This September, producer/director Stephen Simon (Somewhere in Time, What Dreams May Come) will present the film adaptation of Conversations with God, revealing the full backstory of Neale’s struggle and bringing the dialogue luminously to life.
Conversations with God: The Making of the Movie, by novelist and screenwriter Monty Joynes (The Celestine Prophecy: The Making of the Movie and the four-novel Booker Series) and Neale Donald Walsch, provides a unique and exclusive insight into the process and personalities involved in the spiritually relevant film genre that has become known as spiritual cinema. Joynes’ narrative expands on the film’s dramatic story of Neale Donald Walsch’s transformation from a despairing homeless man to a messenger of spiritual truths that have impacted the globe, and also connects the storyline to the remarkable synchronicities that linked all the cast and crew. And throughout the book, Neale Donald Walsch adds personal commentary to an extent unprecedented in moviemaking literature.
From pre-production to the location sets, in more than 27 full-color production stills, production design works of art, and frames from the movie itself, here is the heart of filmmakers at work. Conversations with God: The Making of the Movie a touchstone document in the evolution of conscious moviemaking now recognized as spiritual cinema.
September 2006 • Film • ISBN 1-57174-499-1 • Trade Cloth w/ 160 color photos • $26.95