Interpreter needs a quarter million to finish Brother Brigham’s film

[Everybody Wang Chung]

If Hugh Grant picked up a role in the film, would it help or hurt the film's prospects?

It would definitely help put more non-Mormon butts in the seats, especially during President Nelson’s upcoming 10 day media blackout.

It will be interesting to see if DCP follows the Prophet’s upcoming admonition and stops publicly encouraging people to see his film during opening weekend/week. Will DCP put profits over following the Prophet?

We all know how he reacted (crapped on) and disregarded the Prophet’s counsel to serve a senior mission.

[drumdude]

If Hugh Grant picked up a role in the film, would it help or hurt the film's prospects?

It would definitely help put more non-Mormon butts in the seats, especially during President Nelson’s upcoming 10 day media blackout.

It will be interesting to see if DCP follows the Prophet’s upcoming admonition and stops publicly encouraging people to see his film during opening weekend/week. Will DCP put profits over following the Prophet?

We all know how he reacted (crapped on) and disregarded the Prophet’s counsel to serve a senior mission.

Don’t you know he’s serving the church in a super special senior mission??

[Philo Sofee]

If Hugh Grant picked up a role in the film, would it help or hurt the film's prospects?

It would definitely help put more non-Mormon butts in the seats, especially during President Nelson’s upcoming 10 day media blackout.

It will be interesting to see if DCP follows the Prophet’s upcoming admonition and stops publicly encouraging people to see his film during opening weekend/week. Will DCP put profits over following the Prophet?

We all know how he reacted (crapped on) and disregarded the Prophet’s counsel to serve a senior mission.

A media blackout for 10 days?! Seriously? What on earth good will that possibly do? Why not just tell them to get off it entirely? Ludicrous is as ludicrous does.

[Rivendale]

It would definitely help put more non-Mormon butts in the seats, especially during President Nelson’s upcoming 10 day media blackout.

It will be interesting to see if DCP follows the Prophet’s upcoming admonition and stops publicly encouraging people to see his film during opening weekend/week. Will DCP put profits over following the Prophet?

We all know how he reacted (crapped on) and disregarded the Prophet’s counsel to serve a senior mission.

A media blackout for 10 days?! Seriously? What on earth good will that possibly do? Why not just tell them to get off it entirely? Ludicrous is as ludicrous does.

Look how well the vaccine mask promotion went over for the leaders.

[Dr. Shades]

Look how well the vaccine mask promotion went over for the leaders.

What's a "vaccine mask?"

[Rivendale]

Look how well the vaccine mask promotion went over for the leaders.

What's a "vaccine mask?"

Vaccine and mask recommendations. Poor grammar.

[Moksha]

I can’t think of any measure that they could use that the film would rate as “highly successful” against.

The Tim Ballard film has been the most successful LDS effort to date.

[Tom]

Don’t sleep on the video clip: https://vimeo.com/880637147/76c80d1778?share=copy

I did not spot James Strang in the clip, but I trust he’ll be in the film. (The Six Days in August website identifies him as one of six “central figures of this true story.”)

The first movie poster:

Joseph and Brigham never looked so good. I’m looking forward to October.

The second movie poster has been released:



What sounds better? "From the Makers of Witnesses" or "From the Creators of Witnesses"? How about "From the Minds of the Creators of Witnesses"?

I suggest that the next movie poster include glossy portraits of Sidney Rigdon, James Strang, and Oliver Cowdery as three of the six "central figures of this true story." Or perhaps a depiction of Brigham Young's face transforming to resemble Joseph Smith's visage.

The film's IMDB entry lists several intriguing characters, including "Gifted Girl (age 19)," "Gifted Girl (age 9)," "Sharp's Henchman," "Norwegian Man," and "Blindman." Based on the cast list, I am now fairly confident that the film will depict a blind man jumping up during Brigham Young's speech to proclaim, "Joseph is not dead; he's speaking to us!" or the like. See Ivan J. Barrett, Joseph Smith and the Restoration: A History of the LDS Church to 1846 (Provo, Utah: BYU Press, 1973), 627. (Incidentally, Lynne Watkins Jorgensen's collection of transfiguration testimonies does not make note of a blind man bearing such a witness.)

[drumdude]

I’m worried the release will be so small that no cinema near me will be showing it. This may be the obsession board but I doubt any of us are going to travel just to see it.

[Tom]

I’m worried the release will be so small that no cinema near me will be showing it. This may be the obsession board but I doubt any of us are going to travel just to see it.

Those are entirely valid concerns, drumdude. I confess that I’m a bit of a cinemaphile (it doesn’t hurt that my soulmate majored in film), so I will likely undertake a pilgrimage, if needed, to see it. However, I doubt that more than a handful of my ward neighbors would make the same sacrifice. They’re not as faithful as I am.