Production has begun in Canada for the screen adaptation of Todd Burpo’s best-selling book Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy’s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back, which chronicles the near death experience that reportedly brought a 3-year-old boy face-to-face with Jesus Christ.
Filming started last week in Winnipeg, Manitoba, under Director Randall Wallace, who wrote the Academy Award-winning film “Braveheart” and directed “We Were Soldiers,” “Secretariat,” and “The Man in the Iron Mask.” T.D. Jakes, pastor at the Potter’s House in Dallas, best-selling author and producer of the movie “Jumping the Broom,” adds his weight to the film as a producer.
In 2003, 3-year-old Colton Burpo nearly died after his appendix burst. While in surgery, he reportedly went to heaven and saw Jesus. “It wasn’t until four months after we got out of the hospital that we finally listened to our son,” Todd explained, in a 2011 interview that has received over 13 million hits on Youtube.
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