Researching some info for the last story about the Arnie TV movie, I stumbled across the latest movie that Jürgen Prochnow is working on, as the lead in The Celestine Prophecy.
For those of you who haven’t read the book, it’s one of those that just runs round on word of mouth and is forever being recommended to and from friends in an effort to make their lives better. It’s not a particularly well written story, but that’s not the point. The main purpose is to get forward various insights into life, basically guidelines on which to live your life – treat others well and love everything. As IMDB put it:
The saga begins when John Woodson whimsically quits his nondescript life to track down an ancient Peruvian manuscript containing nine insights that supposedly prophesy the modern emergence of New Age spirituality. South of the border, he encounters resistance from the Peruvian government and church authorities, who believe the document will undermine traditonal family values. While dodging evil soldiers, paranoid priests and pseudoscientific researchers, our hero sequentially discovers all nine insights during a series of chance encounters.
The author, James Redfield also Produces and Screen writes, which may bode well for the translation from book to movie, but with such simplistically written material will it make a good one?
