{"id":4365,"date":"2013-01-03T14:28:39","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T22:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=4365"},"modified":"2013-01-04T16:36:46","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T00:36:46","slug":"an-addition-to-the-left-behind-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2013\/01\/an-addition-to-the-left-behind-family.html","title":{"rendered":"An addition to the Left Behind<\/i> family."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"<\/a>Bad news, everyone. It looks like Nicolas Cage will not<\/i> be playing the Antichrist in the upcoming Left Behind<\/i> reboot<\/a>. Instead, he will be playing Rayford Steele, the pilot with the absurdly masculine name who was played in the original trilogy by Brad Johnson.<\/p>\n

The news comes to us courtesy of Deadline.com<\/a>, which also reports that former High School Musical<\/a><\/i> co-star Ashley Tisdale will be playing Steele\u2019s daughter Chloe, who was played in the original trilogy by Janaya Stephens.<\/p>\n

If the new film follows the template set by the novel and the previous movie trilogy, father and daughter will be the only members of the Steele family \u201cleft behind\u201d after the Rapture takes away their wife\/mother and son\/brother; together with Cameron \u201cBuck\u201d Williams and the as-yet-uncast pastor Bruce Barnes, the remaining Steeles will undergo a spiritual change of heart and form a sort-of Christian resistance group known as the Tribulation Force.<\/p>\n

How much actual \u201cresistance\u201d this group puts up varies from text to text; click here<\/a> for Fred \u201cSlacktivist\u201d Clark\u2019s look at how the film version of Tribulation Force<\/i>, the second book in the series, improves on the book by having the characters actually do<\/i> something for once.<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen whether the new film or its sequels will stick closer to the book or \u2014 who knows? \u2014 make further improvements, such as they are, on the source material. In the meantime, I am now curious to know who will<\/i> play the Antichrist in this reboot.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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