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The Trump Prophecy
A firefighter and three other people; a large building in a wooded area; praying hands with the colors of the American flag

The Trump Prophecy flick poster
Directed by Stephan Schultze
Written by
  • Rick Eldridge
  • Jimmy Hager
Produced by
  • Scotty Curlee
  • Rick Eldridge
Starring
  • Chris Nelson
  • Paulette Todd
  • Karen Boles
  • Don Brooks
Cinematography Micah Johnson
Edited by Kevin Harris
Music by Elliott McGrath

Production
companies

ReelWorksStudios
Motion-picture show Guardian
Distributed by Fathom Events

Release date

 October two, 2018

Running time

 120 minutes
Country United States
Upkeep $2 one thousand thousand
Box role $671,198

The Trump Prophecy (likewise known equally The Trump Prophecy: A Phonation of Promise; A Movement of Prayer )[ane] is a 2018 Christian drama pic based on a story by Orlando-based retired firefighter Marking Taylor that he named "The Commander-in-Chief Prophecy". It is a collaboration betwixt ReelWorksStudios and Liberty Academy'southward Cinematic Arts program, and is the school'south second involvement in a theatrically released motility moving-picture show later another Christian pic, Extraordinary (2017).[ii] ReelWorksStudios is owned by Rick Eldridge, who produced the film, and the school'southward Cinematic Arts department is handled by Stephen Schultze, the flick's director.

The pic stars Chris Nelson as Taylor, who suffers from mail service-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) later on a house fire that kills a young boy (Landon Starns). In April 2011, after a prayer from his wife (Karen Boles), he is told by God that Donald Trump would one 24-hour interval become president of the United States. Past the fourth dimension near the 2016 election, Mary Colbert (Paulette Todd) learns about the message and starts a national prayer chain to brand God's wish of Trump condign president come up true.

In that location are two parts of The Trump Prophecy: the narrative part virtually Taylor's experiences that makes up around three quarters of the film, and an interview segment with well-known speakers in the evangelical and conservative circle of the United States.

Described by Phonation equally a depiction of Christian nationalism in the United states of america, The Trump Prophecy was released in a time when the idea that God was responsible for Trump winning the ballot was shared by several evangelical leaders like Franklin Graham, Richard Land, and Robert Jeffress. Information technology was screened in theaters simply on the days of Oct 2 and October 4, 2018, landing at number 22 on the weekly American box office nautical chart with $671,198 grossed. Making less than its $2,000,000 upkeep, the film garnered negative reviews from critics.

The Trump Prophecy's producers denied any political motive backside the film. Nonetheless, information technology was viewed by some Christian experts, moving picture critics, and Liberty University students as political propaganda. Facebook blocked advertisements for the film for being political, and a Freedom University student started an online petition trying to stop the motion picture that was signed by more than 2,000 people.

Plot [edit]

In 2005, Mark Taylor (Chris Nelson), an American Christian fire fighter married to a fire dispatcher named Mary Jo (Karen Boles), carries a dead young boy (Landon Starns) out of a crackhouse fire. He has had fever dreams relating to the incident since so, which prompts his doctor (Todd McLaren) to diagnose him equally having mail-traumatic stress disorder. Still, he is not taking his prescribed medication and retires his position as fire-eater.

Taylor spends the next six years descending into his PTSD-infused situation, facing hypersomnia and nightmares about existence taken earnest by a burn demon from hell (Darrell Nelson) while watching tv set to numb the illness. Mary Jo notices these episodes and prays to God to assist her hubby; the prayer works, as Marker dreams about a glowing orb that explodes electrical free energy onto him. While hearing Donald Trump on television news, Taylor receives a bulletin from God, which he writes downwards in a periodical, informing him, "You're hearing the voice of president [sic]." By the fourth dimension of the 2012 election, Taylor hopes God'southward wish volition be fulfilled. However, Trump doesn't make it as a nominee and Barack Obama wins instead.

Taylor continues journaling accounts of his dreams and hearings from God up until the first of the 2016 United States presidential election, when he shares his writings with his doctor, Don Colbert (Don Brooks) and his wife, Mary (Paulette Todd). Mary notices a "rhythm of truth" when reading them and builds up a national prayer chain and then that Trump volition be president and, in plow, Taylor will be relieved of his disorder. She obtains participants by calling others via phone and instructs them to employ a shofar in order to increase the chances of Trump winning the election.

Despite several news reports of the unlikelihood of Trump being elected, the miracle occurs as he wins, leaving Marking and Mary Taylor happy and relieved. Worldwide coverage of Mary Colbert'due south shofar group influences Israelis to start their own group of people blowing the horn. The Trump Prophecy ends with interviews of "a console of world leaders,"[3] those being notable conservatives and evangelicals, answering political questions.

Cast [edit]

  • Chris Nelson, a theater instructor at Liberty University,[four] as Mark Taylor, a retired firefighter with PTSD who, in 2011, was told by God that man of affairs Donald Trump would get president.
  • Paulette Todd as Mary Colbert, who starts a national prayer telephone call service to fulfill God's wish to Taylor of making Trump president
  • Karen Boles equally Mary Jo Taylor, Mark's wife and a former burn down dispatcher
  • Don Brooks every bit Dr. Don Colbert, Mary Colbert'southward husband who is treating Mark Taylor
  • Michael Johnson as Dr. Vander, another ane of Mark'south doctors
  • Darrell Nelson equally Mark'south grandpa and the fire demon that repeatedly appears in Taylor'southward nightmares
  • Paul Stober as the primary of the fire section Mark Taylor worked for
  • Landon Starns equally the young male child who dies in a house fire in 2005, a tragedy that traumatizes Marking Taylor to the point that he has frequent nightmares about information technology
  • Rachel Behrmann as a heroin-addicted woman who starts the housefire past accident
  • Sabrina Nelson as the young male child's sister
  • Todd McLaren as a family doctor who diagnoses Mark with PTSD
  • Luis Vazquez and Scotty Curlee as Taylor's firefighting colleagues
  • Andy Geffken, Denise Thomas, and Austin Russell every bit D.J., Billye Brim, and George respectively, iii of the many people Mary Colbert calls in getting participants for the prayer motility
  • Michele Bachmann, David Barton, Lance Wallnau, and William G. Boykin appear as interviewees at the end of the moving picture
  • Donald Trump as himself (archival footage). The television set footage used for The Trump Prophecy was from CNN interview with him past John King on April 28, 2011.[5]

Background [edit]

Donald Trump's official 2017 White Firm portrait. The Trump Prophecy is based on an Orlando firefighter'southward claim of receiving a message from God in 2011 predicting Trump's presidency.

Mark Taylor, a retired Orlando-based firefighter that the flick follows,[6] has claimed many prophecies on platforms like YouTube[7] and his book The Trump Prophecies: The Amazing Truthful Story of the Man Who Saw Tomorrow... and What He Says Is Coming Side by side (2017), released past Defender Publishing on Independence Day 2017.[viii] His claims take been described by professional person writers equally "radical" conspiracy theories[7] and "outlandish".[9] The Trump Prophecy is about one of Taylor's prophecies, which he named "The Commander in Chief Prophecy".[10] The prophecy was that on April 28, 2011, while listening to a tv interview with American man of affairs Donald Trump, he heard God say that "you're hearing the voice of a president" and that a stronger relationship between the United States and Israel volition occur in the future.[10]

Presently earlier the 2016 election, Mary Colbert, an international ministry networker, met Taylor because her hubby, Dr. Don Colbert, was treating him.[11] Taylor gave her the journals of God's messages, and she felt they needed to be spread effectually to the earth; thus, she started a phone-based prayer chain that garnered approximately 100,000 callers per twenty-four hour period, a number so loftier it close down two servers.[11] Trump won, and afterward the 2016 election, numerous evangelical leaders such as Richard Land, Franklin Graham, and Robert Jeffress fabricated statements that God was responsible for the Republican nominee's victory.[12] According to HuffPost, the fact that a big Christian university like Freedom University would produce a picture show promoting the thought is an indicator of how widespread it was at the time of its release.[12]

Production [edit]

On Thanksgiving Mean solar day in 2017, Rick Eldridge, a film producer and owner of the Charlotte, Northward Carolina-based studio ReelWorks Studios, pitched the thought of a film accommodation of Taylor'due south book to Stephan Schultze, who was the executive director of the Liberty University'due south Cinematic Arts group.[13] The programme had previously been involved in the making of five feature films, equally it attempted to comprise i full-length picture show every year into its curriculum.[13] One of its past projects, Boggling (2017), was released in 600 theaters nationwide, making it the get-go film in the The states to exist both theatrically distributed and produced by school students.[14] The Cinematic Arts program kickoff announced a film adaptation of the real-life Taylor's volume The Trump Prophecies (2017) on January 26, 2018; it revealed that it was going to be named Commander and have its theatrical release appointment exist in October.[ii]

The Trump Prophecy is a production of Rick Eldridge'southward ReelWorks Studios, in cooperation with the film department of Freedom Academy, the evangelical Christian school founded by Jerry Falwell. It was directed by Stephan Schultze, the caput of Freedom Academy'southward moving-picture show program, and made with the aid of many of the school'southward flick students.[12] [15] [iv] The film was fabricated by 63 students, as well as school staff,[16] and served as a spring semester projection for the students, equally it was shot from March to April 2018 in Lynchburg and Bedford, Virginia.[13] $1 million was raised past Eldridge for the film'south product, while another million was used for mail service-production and distribution,[iv] totaling the budget to $two one thousand thousand.[xv] Eldridge, who had a career as a musician earlier working in film, wrote "The Greater Expert," the motion-picture show's theme song.[11]

Concepts [edit]

The Trump Prophecy's official printing release marketed the moving picture as "an inspirational message of Hope, highlighting the vast beauty and greatness of The United States [and] its electoral procedure."[3] Phonation journalist Tara Isabella Burton labeled The Trump Prophecy equally a truthful portrait of Christian nationalism in the The states.[17]

The moving-picture show's focus on prophecy comes from the ideas of miracles and prophecies by a grouping of Pentecostal evangelicals named the New Churchly Reformation.[17] The NAR follows a dominion theology, which states that the world must plough Christian in order for the Second Coming to occur.[17] Several evangelicals suggest Trump'due south moving of the Israeli diplomatic mission, which is heavily praised by those interviewed in the end of the film, is a step towards fulfilling the dominion theology.[17] Some of the moving-picture show's interviewees, like Bachmann, Wallnau, and Barton, are NAR members, and the existent-life Don Colbert has regularly appeared on shows run by NAR associates, including Ken Copeland and Jim Bakker.[17]

A major theme in the picture is its promotion of authority and hierarchy.[17] Burton opines that the flick informs its audience not to resist Trump every bit doing so would disrespect the real potency of God; the same type of reasoning has been used by people close to Trump, such as Jeff Sessions, Paula White, and Robert Jeffress, to alibi its actions, such every bit the family unit separation policy.[17] The flick references passages in the Bible nigh Cyrus the Great, which many Christian fans of Trump have compared him to.[17] [7] The movie's authority chemical element extends into its presentation of domestic families, where a female submits to the permissions and demands of a male person; Colbert doesn't offset the Trump prayer chain until her husband gives permission to do then, and Mary Jo Taylor is very submissive to her husband, to the point where she gave up her fire dispatching job.[17]

The film's praise for Trump'south activity in office is only brought up in its interview segment, where they applaud his relocation of the Israeli embassy to Jerusalem.[17] The narrative rarely presents how fit he is to get president; the only depiction of his character is that he doesn't share the same evangelical values every bit almost of his supporters. When Mary Colbert asks other evangelicals to participate in the prayer chain, they admit to not being fans of the Republican candidate.[17] [7] This religious disconnect and the message of God that Mark Taylor receives indicates that Christians are voting for Trump not because of his qualities, but considering they are following the person God chose to atomic number 82 the state.[17] [7]

Fine art lecturer and writer Emily Pothast categorized The Trump Prophecy as "an accidental advertisement for a quasi-socialist utopia", as information technology shows American public sector workers like Marker Taylor existence very wealthy and having easy and heavily encouraged access to wellness care by the time they retire.[7]

Release [edit]

Using promotion from channels like Fox News Radio and The Blaze, and evangelical leaders such every bit Jim Bakker,[9] The Trump Prophecy was screened by Fathom Events in 1,200 theaters throughout the U.S. on October 2 and four, 2018.[17] Eldridge claimed that his expectations of The Trump Prophecy'southward commercial performance were exceeded.[18] It was number 22 on the weekly box office nautical chart on the week of its release, grossing $671,198.[19] According to Eldridge, the film garnered eighteen,000 pre-sold tickets and, as of Oct 3, 2018, more than double the ticket sales.[18] While screenings in locations such as Union Square, Manhattan, and Lynchburg, Virginia were reported by sources to have very small attendance,[17] [20] Eldridge reported that there were "quite a few screenings beyond the country that were sold out."[21] The Trump Prophecy was issued on DVD past GVN Releasing on March 12, 2019.[22]

Reception [edit]

While audience response towards The Trump Prophecy was mediocre at all-time,[18] [20] professional journalists were much harsher on the film.[17] [7] [5] Non including opinions nearly the film's political undertones, Pothast was disappointed that it was not as "weird and unhinged" as she hoped,[7] and Burton criticized the filler that made up "[around] 75 minutes" of the film, such as scenes of discussions between Marker and Mary Taylor and an unresolved subplot involving Mark selling his boat.[17] All the same, she also wrote that the moving-picture show is essential to watch in gild for non-Christians to learn the reality of American Christian nationalism.[17] A review from The Motion picture Mag was a detailed summary of technical issues of the movie, non only of the amount of filler but besides the "shallow and pedantic" dialogue, poor acting, "amateur" and "dull" shot limerick, and the unintentionally funny visual effects.[5]

Controversy [edit]

Concerns nearly The Trump Prophecy'southward effects on American politics came from Christian pundits such as Michael L. Brown (left) and Jim Wallis (right).

Due to the overwhelming support of Trump from Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr. and the flick'south release date being scheduled only a calendar month before the midterm elections,[13] Christian experts such as Samuel Smith, Michael 50. Brown, and Jim Wallis expressed concern almost the film's possible negative furnishings on the American political climate earlier it was distributed.[xiii] Brown, who believed in religious prophecy, worried that the film would inspire evangelical viewers to have on a form of "hyper-patriotism" that compared America and its leadership to God,[13] and Wallis chosen the message of the film "heretical".[iv]

Fox News reported on June 21, 2018 that Facebook blocked ads from ReelWorks Studios promoting The Trump Prophecy for meeting the social media platform's definition of "political" content,[sixteen] although Eldridge and the film's male lead, Chris Nelson, reasoned that Facebook judged the ads just by their inclusion of the word Trump.[xvi] [10]

Chop-chop after The Trump Prophecy'due south January 2018 proclamation, a Liberty Academy pupil began a petition on Modify.org objecting to the picture show.[2] [23] The petition's concern was that it endorsed a man who performed actions in his office that went against Jesus' teaching to help marginalized groups of people.[4] It as well suggested students would have a harder time finding work in more liberal-aligned companies.[xx] By the time of the film's premiere on October 2, the petition garnered 2,286 signees.[20]

When The Trump Prophecy was released, critical reviews were published that expressed cloy with the picture show, as they were alarmed by the fact that Liberty University, a powerful evangelical company, invested in a flick that presented a agonizing message[17] [24] and legitimized the beliefs of a "radical" conspiracy theorist similar Taylor.[7] The Motion picture Magazine described it as "a glorification of ignoring existent solutions to mental illness that takes a plough into political propaganda."[5]

The producers of The Trump Prophecy denied any controversial political motive behind the film.[xvi] [thirteen] While Eldridge predicted the backlash The Trump Prophecy received,[10] he explained that the flick was meant to inquire "a divided nation" to pray for authority because humans are "chosen" to do and so according to the Bible.[16]

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External links [edit]

  • Official website
  • The Trump Prophecy at IMDb
  • The Trump Prophecy at Box Role Mojo
  • The Trump Prophecy at Rotten Tomatoes

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