Christian Bale to star in The Church of Living Dangerously

Christian Bale has arrange his subsequent undertaking and it sounds completely wild in all one of the best methods. In accordance with Deadline, Christian Bale is about to provide and star in an adaptation of David Kushner’s Vanity Fair article The Church of Residing Dangerously, which revolves round a drug-smuggling preacher.

John Lee Bishop didn’t have one of the best childhood; Amongst different issues, his uncles would drive him into bare-knuckle fights with different children for his or her amusement, however that’s solely the tip of the iceberg of Bishop’s wild life. He ultimately turned pastor of The Residing Hope Church, which grew so massive that it crammed an 8500 sq. foot former Ok-Mart superstore in Portland, Oregon. A pure showman, Bishop would deliver unique animals alongside for his sermons and have become fairly rich. Sadly, he didn’t deal with it nicely and developed an habit to painkillers and a consuming drawback, to not point out being caught in an affair with one in every of his church staff. His son additionally developed a meth and heroin behavior, which Bishop additionally took half in as an try to higher perceive their energy over his son. Bishop then started smuggling medicine for a Mexican cartel and was later busted after 20 runs and sentenced to 5 years behind bars. Actually sounds meaty sufficient for Christian Bale to do one thing outrageous with the half. The Church of the Residing Dangerously will likely be written by Charles Randolph, who co-wrote Adam McKay’s The Large Quick, which additionally starred Christian Bale.

Christian Bale will subsequent be seen in Taika Waititi’s Thor: Love and Thunder as Gorr the God Butcher. The Marvel movie is about to hit theaters on Could 6, 2022.