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The
Celestine Prophecy:
The Making of the Movie |
In late March, 2004, Monty
was asked to co-author a making-of-the-movie book with James
Redfield for his metaphysical best-selling novel
The Celestine Prophecy. The
movie was shot in St. Augustine and Ocala, Florida, and
Monty was on the location sets with James and Salle
Redfield, co-screenplay writer and producer Barnet Bain,
producers Terry Collis and Beverly Camhe, director Armand
Mastroianni, and the cast and crew for the principal
filming.
The Celestine Prophecy: The Making of the Movie was
published in October 2005 with the major release film
scheduled to follow in the spring of 2006. The large format
hardback movie book with Monty’s narrative and interviews
contains over 160 color photos, production artwork, and
frames from the film that he also edited. |
Monty and James Redfield
discuss their plan for the movie book on the set of The
Celestine Prophecy. |
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Conversations
With God
The Making of the Movie
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Monty’s second
making-of-the-movie book was released in September 2006 to
coincide with the October release and the national promotion
tour of the feature film
Conversations with God
Monty spent six weeks on location to research the book,
interview the cast and crew, and to direct the still
photography. Monty then persuaded long time friend
Neale Donald
Walsch to add his personal commentary to the book in a
dimension unprecedented in moviemaking literature.
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Conversations with God,
the movie, is the dramatic story of Neale Donald Walsch’s
passage from being poor and homeless to becoming the
messenger of spiritual truths that have impacted the globe.
Book One of the Conversations with God series stayed
on the New York Times Bestseller list for more than
two and a half years and has been translated into 36
languages, with more than 7 million copies sold.
A decade after the appearance of Book One,
Conversations with God, the movie, began shooting
November 7, 2005, in Ashland, Oregon, where the actual
events of Neale’s transformation occurred. Finally, the full
back story of Neale’s struggle is revealed in a
feature-length film produced and directed by Stephen Simon,
who is responsible for such spiritual cinema classics as
Somewhere in Time and What Dreams May Come and
for the launch of the modern day spiritual cinema movement.
Conversations with God: The Making of the Movie
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. The
narrative text connects the film’s storyline to the
remarkable synchronistic events that linked all cast and
crewmembers. From pre-production to the location sets, in
more than 200 full-color production stills, production
design works of art, and frames from the movie itself, here
is the heart of filmmakers at work. |
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