Page 47: Dallas Jenkins
The Unfolding
Northwestern Media
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🗓️ 22 May 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Nobody sets out to be a failure. But what if failure is exactly what we need? Dallas Jenkins is the director of The Chosen. The first-ever multi-season show about Jesus. But long before The Chosen, Dallas wasn't interested in making faith-based films. He dreamed of making it big in Hollywood. What God taught Dallas through failure became part of the incredible story that led him to creating The Chosen.
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| 0:00.0 | Page 47 of the unfolding is the story of Dallas Jenkins. |
| 0:04.1 | When the box office numbers come out, you can tell within a couple hours of what it's going to be like that weekend. |
| 0:08.8 | And it was very clear immediately that the movie was a total bomb financially. |
| 0:12.5 | And so within about two hours, I went from a director with a very bright future to a director with no future. |
| 0:18.2 | God's story has been unfolding. |
| 0:28.6 | Since the beginning of time. He invites you to be a part of it. Another page in the unfolding. folding. |
| 0:45.3 | Hi, this is Meredith Foster. |
| 0:47.8 | Nobody sets out to be a failure. |
| 0:52.1 | We avoid it, dread it, try to move past it as fast as we can. |
| 0:56.5 | But what if failure is exactly what we need? Dallas Jenkins is the director of The Chosen, the first ever multi-season show about the life of Christ. But long |
| 1:02.9 | before The Chosen, Dallas dreamed of making it big in Hollywood. He didn't want to make faith-based |
| 1:08.8 | films. Dallas and his dad, author Jerry Jenkins, started a company, and he produced his first film. It was called hometown legend when he was just 25 years old. He was on the path, focused on achieving big-time Hollywood success. |
| 1:24.2 | I would say that I up until three years ago, which we can get into in a few minutes, |
| 1:28.8 | but up until about three years ago, I always, my hopes remain the same, which was I wanted |
| 1:33.4 | to win an Academy Award and I wanted to make movies with Hollywood, with some of the biggest |
| 1:37.9 | producers in Hollywood. |
| 1:38.8 | I wanted to essentially make it, for lack of a better term, even though a hometown legend |
| 1:42.9 | got picked up by a major studio, which was great, my goals were I wanted to be a director who won an Academy Award |
| 1:50.3 | and got, you know, made a movie that really impacted culture on a mass scale. Okay, got one |
| 1:55.8 | one movie behind me. Hopefully that's going to lead to something else. And, you know, again, |
| 2:00.3 | my old, my long-term goal of |
| 2:01.9 | making it and being accepted in Hollywood and popular culture remains the same. So what was the |
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