A NEW PADRE PIO MOVIE?!!
Yes! I wholeheartedly advocate for a brand new Padre Pio film to be scripted, produced and screened worldwide. Thankfully, my book on Padre Pio has been well-received , and while quite a few people have said they’d love to see a good movie made about the Stigmatist, certain others have cautioned me against any involvement because the films they’ve seen about his life, “Don’t work”. The key just might be seeing where other filmmakers have gone wrong and then doing the opposite to get it right. Far be it from me to criticize anyone who has endeavored to put Pio’s life on the big screen, but I feel movies about his life have failed because of a lack of accuracy. I have written a pitch and an outline of a screenplay, and my guiding light is painstaking attention to detail, my aim is that every word that comes out of the mouth of the actor playing Pio is something Pio actually said. Too many pieces of art about Padre Pio get lost in the debate between what is tr...
