Robert Redford in Talks to Play Oral Roberts in Film 'Come Sunday' (Exclusive)

The Hollywood Reporter ^ | 5-21-14 | Tatiana Siegel

[windcliff]

[SevenofNine]

I don’t know I don’t see any resemblance

[BenLurkin]

Just no.

[Tax-chick]

... Robert Redford to play the late Oral Roberts.

Easy job, just lying there in his coffin ...

[dfwgator]

[MUDDOG]

It’s just a supporting role. He probably won’t get to say “Heal!”

[Dr. Thorne]

I believe Oral Roberts was over 6 feet tall. Wikipedia lists Redford at 5'10". This is a lie.

I stood next to Robert Redford at a nice restaurant on Cape Cod many years ago. He was wearing boots with heels. I am 6'1" and was looking down at him. He is no more than 5'7".

[PapaNew]

Well, the devil didn't like Heaven's for Real and other solid Christan stories containing solid Christian characters, so now they'll do a movie about the crackpot Carlton Pearson.

[fatnotlazy]

Redford has aged badly. Maybe that’s what happens to liberals.

[RichInOC]

I think I’d go with Robert Duvall or Tommy Lee Jones, but that’s just me. Redford could maybe do the contemporary Billy Graham if he could do the voice. But do you remember Sundance ever doing anything that involved accents?

[Osage Orange]

I happen to work in the CityPlex towers....I work in the 30 tower.

I've heard many stories about Oral...but they are just stories to me....I can't verify any of them.

The City of Faith Medical Center / Research Center...was quite something back in the day...people tell me.

I can say...the towers are impressive. They can be seen from many miles away. They are well built.

FWIW-

[Gay State Conservative]

What next? Paris Hilton as Mother Teresa?

[Osage Orange]

He's old...

He shrunk...

[pallmallman]

It’s very wrong...in many ways.

[MUDDOG]

FWIW

It's worth a lot.

[FatherofFive]

Wow. Tulsa is getting a lot of play - this movie and the Oprah TV movie of the Tulsa race riots years ago.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Ugly inside. That’s what happens.

[Osage Orange]

Thanks!

[DainBramage]

I went to ORU for one year and it was recommended to me I was better suited to a state school( cough cough)
I would recruit little old ladies to sit in my seat and skip chapel. When they walked down the isle checking for empty seats mine would be full
Till the seminary student turned me in
Then Oral was hawking prayer rags with a hand print on them he had prayed,over. Donate 50 bucks and you get the rag to lay upon your body where it hurts and you had your miracle.
I snagged about ten of them one day and got caught checking my oil with one. Like Orals hand wasn’t good enough to check oil, and it might have stopped the leak.
It was a fun place though. Top notch schooling.

[Osage Orange]

I know a bit about the Greenwood area of T-Town....

Was called the "Black Wall Street" back in the 20's....

The stories...go this way and that way..from what I've read.

It's hard to know the truth now.

I can truthfully say...from a born and raised SoCal boy...I never saw as much overt ignorance with race...until I moved to OK.

FWIW-