229: Dallas Jenkins — Manna Program, Part 2
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🗓️ 22 July 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings continue a conversation with special guest Dallas Jenkins, creator and director of The Chosen, on Season 1 of this breakout series.
Thank you to Drew Schmitz of Harvest Bible Church in Phoenix for helping us set up this interview.
“Can you trust The Chosen?” — The Chosen, YouTube
The Chosen’s Channel on YouTube
The Chosen (TV Series) — Wikipedia
The Chosen (2017 TV Series) — IMDb
Additional audio production by Gus Simpson
Special Guest: Dallas Jenkins.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Baymont podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host, Brent Billings. |
| 0:20.0 | Today we continue our conversation with special guest, Dallas Jenkins, creator and director |
| 0:24.5 | of the Chosen. Once again, Dallas was so incredibly generous with his schedule and then giving |
| 0:29.9 | us even more time right at the end for a few final questions. If you missed part one, be |
| 0:34.2 | sure to listen to Baymont 228 for a discussion about relying on crowdfunding to do your work, |
| 0:40.1 | underappreciated roles over the course of production, the reality of Christian media, the language |
| 0:45.4 | of film and some of the movies that have influenced Dallas, things he's learned about other faith |
| 0:50.3 | traditions through writing the Chosen and some of the challenges around casting a show |
| 0:54.7 | like this. So Marty, why don't you get us back into our questions for Dallas? You have a video |
| 1:00.7 | that I think Brent can probably link in the show notes where you explained, I'm assuming |
| 1:04.2 | towards beginning of this project, kind of your production philosophy, answering all those |
| 1:08.3 | evangelical questions that we're going to come up and you had, you have all these guiding |
| 1:11.5 | principles for the production, things like the gospels in history, you're going to take |
| 1:17.1 | precedence over religious traditions, your questions of is accurate and is it plausible? This idea |
| 1:24.8 | of not seeking the approval of anyone, which I think is huge, wisdom and humility to consider |
| 1:31.0 | many perspectives to make sure that there's lots of different ways to see this, lots of different |
| 1:34.5 | ways to portray this, and then focusing on the story, rather the interpretation, which I really |
| 1:41.1 | liked. But then, so to go back to that not seeking the approval of anyone, do you have like |
| 1:48.8 | relationships or some kind of systematic checks or balances? I mean, it's one thing to say that, |
| 1:54.7 | it's another thing to carry that out because you're still a human being with your own life and |
| 1:59.4 | your own convictions and your own faith and you're surrounded by people and voices and passive |
| 2:03.4 | aggressive this. And like, do you have any checks and balances or things in the production that |
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