To Quell The Terror Optioned for the screen!

At least twice in the past this blog has written about William Bush’s To Quell the Terror: The Mystery of the Vocation of the Sixteen Carmelites of Compiegne Guillotined July 17, 1794 – it’s a splendid account of the 16 women who were beheaded near the end of the French Revolution. They went to their deaths singing psalms and offering their deaths up as prayers for an end of the terror – and in fact it ended ten days later.

Now writer Barbara Nicolosi announces the possibility that this inspiring book may be turned into a movie – she’ll be scripting it:

The nuns’ story was fictionalized in a book called The Song at the Scaffold, by Gertrud von LeFort, and then turned into a beautiful opera called The Dialogue of the Carmelites. But the real story – which is kind of The Mission meets Amadeus – uh, with women – has never been dramatized.

I will be writing the screenplay while Origin puts the project in development (ie. looks for financing). And we can brood and pull our hair out over the financing tomorrow. Today, I am really, really happy and honored that I have the grace to work on this project.

Remember Barbara’s intention in your prayers if you are so inclined. This could be great.