Using his own script of Jeff’s book, Ron Maxwell filmed Gods and Generals in and around Sharpsburg, Md., the site of the Antietam Battlefield, and on actual historic locations in Virginia and West Virginia.
Jeff Shaara (son of Michael Shaara, author of The Killer Angels) wrote the prequel. Gods and Generals is the prequel to “The Killer Angels,” the novel on which the movie Gettysburg was based. Lee featured as dictated by history and by the arc of the movie’s storyline. Because the book is so vast, the movie focuses on General Jackson, with Gen. 21, accurately portrays the history of the war, the human characters and the faith of the key players, up through the death of Gen. His new movie, which opens nationwide Feb. Ron Maxwell, the renowned director of the critically acclaimed epic movie “Gettysburg,” wrote and directed Gods and Generals. This tragic and yet heroic event pitted brother against brother on an immense and tragic scale. There has never been an historic event which influenced the American people as much as the Civil War, or the War Between the States or the War of Northern Aggression, depending on your point of view. It tells the powerful story of the most important event in the history of the United States in an accurate and faith-honoring way. “Gods and Generals,” based on the best-selling book by Jeff Shaara, is such a movie. (BP)–Rarely does a big-budget Hollywood movie come along that reflects history and the Christian faith of the protagonists in an historical event accurately and faithfully.
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