![]() VanWagenen says there are many obstacles - Westerns are generally out of favor at the box office, and they are quite costly to make. Before I retire from making movies - which may be not too long now - I'd still like to take another run at it. The project is still alive and has not died a death of old age yet. ![]() ![]() There may be other stuff I don't know, but this is the only piece I've ever read."As to his efforts to get it off the ground, he says, "There has been some movement on it. "This is the only book I have read about the Mormon experience that, personally, I feel could find a wider audience, a more generalized audience. ![]() ![]() Sterling VanWagenen is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and while he has a wide array of movies on his slate to produce and direct, one is a dream project that reflects his heritage, one he's been inching along for years - an adaptation of Maurine Whipple's 1941 novel about Mormon pioneers, "The Giant Joshua."Ĭonsidered by VanWagenen to be perhaps the finest Mormon novel ever written, though its forays into polygamy tend to make some members of the church cringe, the book, he says, could make a great movie. ![]()
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