ANAHEIM, Calif. — Eight years in the past, as writer-director Jon Erwin was researching an unrelated film mission, he stumbled throughout a 1971 subject of Time journal, which featured a psychedelic purple image of Jesus beneath the headline, “The Jesus Revolution.”

Erwin, who together with his brother Andrew Erwin, has a cope with Lionsgate to launch faith-based characteristic movies, is aware of a lot about modern-day American Christianity. However the Time journal cowl, and the story he learn after shopping for a classic copy of the June 21, 1971, subject on eBay, stopped him in his tracks, he says.