Doctor Omega
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Come Sunday
Director: Joshua Marston (“Maria Full of Grace,” “The Forgiveness of Blood”)
Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Martin Sheen, Condola Rashad, Jason Segel, Danny Glover
Details: Originally planned as a Marc Forster and then a Jonathan Demme film, “Come Sunday” ultimately ended up in the hands of the lesser known but no less talented “Maria Full of Grace” director Joshua Marston who helmed the true story project earlier this year and will first unveil it at Sundance. Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in the film as an evangelical megastar who preaches fundamentalist teachings to millions of followers on television.
Rattled by an uncle’s suicide and distraught by reports of the Rwandan Genocide, he receives an epiphany – God loves all humankind, there is no hell and everyone is already saved. When he shares those heretical ideas, church leaders and members begin to defect in droves and his empire topples.