"The film has no distributor in America. It has got a deal everywhere else in the world but in the US, and it's because of what the film is about. People have been saying this is the best film they've seen all year, yet nobody in the US has picked it up.
"It is unbelievable to us that this is still a really hot potato in America. There's still a great belief that He made the world in six days. It's quite difficult for we in the UK to imagine religion in America. We live in a country which is no longer so religious. But in the US, outside of New York and LA, religion rules.
Color me skeptical. Controversy sells. A distributor will be found.
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A silly article. You can turn on the TV any night of the week and see programs that presuppose natural selection and an ancient universe. It's not controversy that has prevented this from finding a distributor.
> outside of New York and LA, religion rules
How true it is. A known agnostic like me can't visit Boston or San Fransisco without getting beaten up.
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Controversy sells. A distributor will be found.
True. But, will an audience be found?
The producer is just acting like a pompous ass. America has more educated people, more atheists and more people who believe in evolution than England. I hear this constant claim of intellectual superiority of the British all the time. They need to settle down and quit displaying a behavior that seems more like an inferiority complex.
Sure, we have fundamentalists who reject evolution, but that really is not the problem. The likely problem is that a US distributor hasn't been found willing to put up the kind of money the producer wants for a film with uncertain appeal. I personally would love to see the film, but purchasing distribution rights in the US is another thing all together.