Faith Based

Faith Based (2020)

Salvation is rich

When two idiot friends realize all "faith based" films make buckets of cash, they set out on a mission to make one of their own.

Date of release
2020-10-09
TMDB
4.7 / 10 (17)
Runtime
1h 32m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Vincent Masciale

Casting

Interesting facts

Faith Based is a 2020 American comedy film from director Vincent Masciale, written, produced and starring Luke Barnett. The film also stars Tanner Thomason, Margaret Cho, David Koechner, Lance Reddick, and Jason Alexander. The story is about two clueless friends who decide that making a faith based film would be a good get-rich-quick scheme.

Production

After Barnett and Masciale made their first film together and it premiered at Tribeca, they had hoped to be able to get studio funding to make another film, but spent two years unsuccessfully pitching ideas. When the faith based film God's Not Dead 3 came out, Barnett joked "we should just make a Christian movie, and use the proceeds to make our stuff." Barnett started writing in December 2018 and completed the script by February 2019, and starte…

The film was made on a very low budget, and financed off of credit card borrowing. Filming locations included their own homes and the homes of family and friends, as well as the bar where they use to work at, and a local church they use to attend also. The film was shot in 15 days, across a dozen locations.

For the role of Butch Savage, they had originally wanted to cast an actual '80s action star in the role, but rewrote the part as a fictional character and hoped to cast a comedic actor instead. They were pleasantly surprised when David Koechner said yes to playing the role.

Jason Alexander joined the film in July 2019.

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