Sundance 2018 Preview: Come Sunday Starring Chiwetel EjioforPosted by Wilson Morales
January 21, 2018
Making its World Premiere tonight at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival is Netflix’s Come Sunday, joining Chiwetel Ejiofor, Martin Sheen, Jason Segel, Condola Rashad, Danny Glover, Stacey Sergeant and Keith Stanfield.
Joshua Marston directed the film from a script written by Marcus Hinchey
The film is based on a This American Life episode from 2005 chronicling the story of Carlton Pearson (Ejiofor), a renowned evangelical minister in Tulsa, Okla., who stirs up controversy with his revelation that there is no hell. He loses everything and must rebuild his church and his family and find his own personal faith.
Rashad will play Gina, the wife of Carlton (Ejiofor), while Glover will play Gilbert Pearson, who is Carlton’s uncle. Martin Sheen will play televangelist Oral Roberts. Stanfield will play the music director of a megachurch who is also the devoted right-hand man of Ejiofor’s minister. Sargeant plays Nicky Brown, a working single mother, Carlton’s assistant, and one of the few members of the church to stick by him.
Netflix will premiere Come Sunday on April 13.
