More Janette Oke & Beverly Lewis movies "In Development"

According to a source at Bethany House Publishers, we have received word that Janette Oke's Canadian West series as well as Beverly Lewis' books The Shunning and The Preacher's Daughter are "in development" by Believe Pictures.

According to Brian Bird's LinkedIn profile he is currently "writing and producing" the Preacher's Daughter for 20th Century Fox.

Believe Pictures is the film company co-founded by Michael Landon, Jr and Brian Bird. They have previously adapted Janette Oke's Love Comes Softly series, Beverly Lewis' The Redemption of Sarah Cain, as well as Francine Rivers' The Last Sin Eater.

Read our review of The Last Sin Eater here.
Read our review of Saving Sarah Cain here.

Saving Sarah Cain DVD coming January 15th

CENTURY CITY, Calif. – At her estranged sister’s death, a self-absorbed, metropolitan newspaper columnist becomes the legal guardian of her five Amish nieces and nephews in the heartwarming family drama Saving Sarah Cain, arriving January 15, 2008 on DVD from Fox Home Entertainment. Based on the beloved best-selling novel The Redemption of Sarah Cain by award-winning novelist Beverly Lewis, Saving Sarah Cain takes business woman Sarah Cain on a journey from her single-life as an accomplished, big-city professional to a new life as the caretaker of five Amish orphans. Now she must determine whether to make a new life for them in Portland or to sacrifice her successful career and raise her newfound family in the heartland of Amish Country.

Directed by Michael Landon, Jr. (The Last Sin Eater, Love’s Abiding Joy) and featuring triumphant performances from Academy Award^® and Golden Globe^® nominees Elliott Gould (M*A*S*H, Ocean’s Eleven) and Tess Harper (Tender Mercies, Crimes of the Heart), Saving Sarah Cain is a touching and uplifting story of love, sorrow and redemption that unites a family together.

DVD Features:

Widescreen

English, French and Spanish Subtitles

Closed Captioned

Making-Of Featurette

Deleted Scenes

Trailers

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Redemption of Sarah Cain movie stills

Michael Landon, Jr. & Brian Bird's Believe Pictures have some fun movie photos of the upcoming Redemption of Sarah Cain movie. See them here. Based on the novel by Beverly Lewis, the film should release this fall with Lisa Pepper in the lead role.

Plot summary:
When Sarah Cain, a self-involved big-city newspaper columnist, travels to Pennsylvania for the funeral of her Amish sister, she soon discovers that she is the legal guardian of her five Amish nieces and nephews. Rather than choose to move to Lancaster County to finish raising them there herself, or let them be separated by the foster care system, Sarah decides to take them with her back to Portland where she believes she can make a new life for them. However, she soon realizes that the modern world has forced them to compromise who they are, and that she has moved them there for all the wrong reasons - a motive which is soon exposed - because secrets can really never be kept secret. In order to find her own redemption, she knows she must make a choice to give them back their lives in Amish Country. And whether she remains part of their lives will have a lot to do with how much she has grown to love them.

Read our interview with Michael Landon, Jr. about his previous film The Last Sin Eater here.