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April 1, 2019 - Jim Bakker Show
18:07
Jim and Lori Bakker Interview Rick Eldridge
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Producer of Great Movies 00:12:41
Welcome to Heritage USA.
I didn't think I'd ever see that and say that again.
Yeah, really.
But here we are at Heritage USA.
We're on Main Street, and we're so excited because we're at the roundtable.
We've had an amazing week.
Yes.
With Rick Joyner and mighty men and women of God.
You were there, Rick Eldridge here with me today.
You were there.
What do you think of this?
Oh, it was fantastic.
I have 14 pages of note that I've got to go back through.
And it's just so much, it's like a fire hose.
It's just so much information.
Yes.
And it was good and bad.
I mean, it was good that God's going to do all these marvelous things.
God's going to take care of us.
But boy, some wild times are coming.
It is.
But, you know, I think having the information, we know better how to pray.
Yes.
We know better how to prepare.
Right.
And we know better how to instruct as leaders those around us.
That's right.
And I think that's what I get from this.
And it's especially being in my business, which is the entertainment business, which, you know, it's kind of hard to find Christians maybe sometimes in our business.
To come here and hear these men of God who are top of their field, excellent in what they're doing.
Let me introduce you properly.
This is Rick Eldridge.
Movie producer, movie director, movie everything.
And you're the CEO of Real Works.
That's R-E-E-L, right?
Real, like the Film Real.
Like the Film Real Works Studios.
Producer of great movies, by the way.
And this is the man who is producing movies that you can watch without worrying about some awful thing coming up to embarrass you and your family and hurt your kids and all.
You did the Trump movie, which was all of our staff and I, I mean, and it was so funny because the people that live at Morningside, we all went to the same theater because it was only playing at one theater in our area.
And it was like a family union.
It was like being in Mayberry.
I mean, you know, we were all there and Lori and I sat in the middle front row where all the people walk in.
So we were shaking hands.
It was fun.
For us, it was like family and we enjoyed it.
But I understand that the theater has just sold out throughout the country.
How did Trump prophecy do it?
It did very well.
We were so impressed with the responses we got back from people.
And one of the things that really meant a lot to me, you know, we told a great story that really emphasizes prayer, praying for our nation, praying for our country, for the unity of our country.
And then it ends with a very uplifting, inspirational message of who we are as Americans and what we should be proud of as Americans.
That's right.
But what happened that just blew my mind, all across America, I started getting calls from people that said, you won't believe it.
Everybody stayed through the credit roll, and then they held hands in the theaters and prayed.
There were small groups in lobbies, and people sent me pictures of just holding hands with strangers and praying.
I love that.
It happened in the theater we were in.
And I didn't do it.
I didn't start the prayer.
I should have.
I don't know who the man was, but one of them in there said, let's all pray.
And we all stood up and prayed together.
And these are strangers holding hands.
And, you know, this happened around the midterm elections.
There was a lot of really, I mean, the Kavanaugh hearings were going on.
Yeah, how did you do it?
So much happening.
I'm so excited about what you did.
How did you, why did you do that ending?
How did you have, was that gutsy to do?
Were you debating whether, I mean, it's like the movie ends and you got another, what, 10 minutes or so going?
The conversations.
Well, what I wanted to do after the dramatic feature happens is I really wanted people to have, I mean, we're talking about prayer.
I wanted them to have context to pray.
And so we had 13 men from around the world who are experts in their field, whether it's economics, military, world affairs, politics, whatever, giving us context as to how to pray.
And it was around the idea of what does it really mean for America to be great?
What does it mean to our military to be strong and be great?
What does it mean for our foreign affairs to be connected and interacting as our president is doing today even in Vietnam meeting with Korea again?
What does it mean for us to embrace Israel?
And we had the former communications director of Netanyahu talking about that.
And I think all of that together gave people context to pray.
And this just happened all over the country.
The first call I got was from a theater in Nashville that was just packed.
They had to turn people away.
And everyone stayed to the end.
And a lady stood up in the back of the room and said, we should pray now.
And she began reciting the Lord's Prayer.
And as she did, this whole audience of strangers in unison began to pray with her.
And I just couldn't handle it.
It was just, I mean, there's no thing at the end of the movie that says, pray now.
Right.
It just happened.
The Spirit of the Lord was there.
It had to be to move in at that time.
Absolutely.
And it was a period in our world where I think people felt a little hopeless, you know, because we've got the Kavanaugh hearings going.
We've got people just fighting within each other, within our nation.
And what do we do with this?
And if nothing else, we can pray.
You know, Don and Mary Colbert were in your movie.
I mean, they weren't in the movie.
I mean, somebody played them.
They were in their movement.
They were played.
And Mary and Don are our best friends, probably.
Two of our best friends we have on earth.
And he's my doctor as well.
But I was in on that prayer, that ending where the trumpets resounded all over the...
Do you remember what I'm talking about?
Oh, absolutely.
Absolutely.
A chofar.
Shofar, yeah.
And how many shofars, I wonder, were?
Oh, there had to be hundreds.
Yeah.
And you...
And you put that on.
People don't understand that that's a real moment.
I was involved with that.
And there was days when I couldn't even get in because the lines were jammed, the systems in America jammed with prayer.
And God's doing something.
And, you know, I forgot in this roundtable the percentage of Christians in America.
Did you get that number?
Do you remember?
Well, the percentage of Christians in America was 30%, I believe, that were truly evangelical Christians.
Yes, yes.
Rick, why are you doing movies?
What brings you to this point?
You know, God's given all of us, and we just heard some amazing people that are really at the top of their mountain, at the top of their field.
I don't know that I would call myself that, but God's given me an opportunity to use the talent.
But you're doing great movies.
Come on.
I do.
But for two reasons.
Listen, can I say, you're too modest.
Lori, Lori, your three favorite movies, I think, I know your number one favorite.
You have a trilogy of a series.
Tell them, what is it?
The ultimate gift.
I've often said, anyone should know.
It's Lori's favorite movie.
And I couldn't imagine that I would actually meet you, Mr. Producer, the executive producer.
Rick, I'll just one day, but the ultimate, yeah, the ultimate trilogy, the series, the ultimate gift, the ultimate gift movie is just such a, you know, it doesn't, it's not Bible thumping, I type in nothing wrong with that, I'm just saying I knew there was an underlying message of this is how this is, these are the attributes of God in this method.
Well, the gifts are told as gifts, but if you layer that over the top of the gifts of the Spirit and the gifts of life that are mentioned in the word, they are there.
That's right.
But to answer your question earlier, my goal is really to tell stories at a level of excellence that hopefully competes in the marketplace.
They do.
But that very naturally bring about the attributes of God.
Yeah, you do.
Through the nature of the story, and so there's redemptive value.
Yes.
There's conflict.
There's all of that.
But very naturally, we see that it's, you know, being a Christian doesn't have to be all that weird.
That's right.
It can be real.
And so we try to tell the story in the way that it's a real natural outpouring of who they are.
How many movies have you produced in your lifetime, do you think?
Well, feature films.
I've done 16.
But I've got over with TV and with some of my kids' animated product over 100 titles in the marketplace.
And you've done a lot of kids' stuff.
A lot of kids' programming, yes.
And that's been so much fun.
And that's so important because they're putting, you know, the occult and everything in kids' movies.
Yes.
And it's so good to have movies that are clean.
Absolutely.
That's right.
Well, we did the Hermian Friends series with Tim Conway and Don Knotts.
And they're telling stories about lying.
So one of the stories is about lying.
And the neat thing that we do in our movie, and it's on the DVD too, is we, because it's animated, okay?
So you hear Tim's voice, but you don't see Tim on screen.
But we go back and we'll do kind of behind-the-scenes interviews with all of our actors.
And those are so rich because I'll be able to say, Tim, when you were a kid, did you ever lie?
Did you ever?
And they go, oh, let me tell you about it.
And they don't go into, you know, how Tim is.
And he tells his story.
So it's real.
And I think kids can see, you know, not that it's just wrong to lie.
Yes, exactly.
But I can see that it's okay to be forgiven, too.
That's right.
Why did you want to be here?
I wanted to learn from that.
Why did you want to be here at this roundtable?
What do you take from this?
You know, I think these are some of the most powerful men of God in our nation that, again, at the various mountains of expertise that they're in and serving in, whether it's pastors or in business or in military.
And, you know, I get so much from hearing this diversity of conversation and connectivity as they're working in their world and being an influence in that world.
And, you know, it's just phenomenal.
I'd pay lots of money to be here.
And they just let me come.
That's true.
They just let us come too.
It's amazing.
It really is.
And some of the information is almost like top secret.
I mean, these people are connected.
And I'll tell you what.
Without God, America is going to be in great trouble.
We can't go the wrong road.
And there's a road out there that it's kind of a wide road right now that people are looking down that could bring America to destruction.
That's right.
And I think that the thing all of us together, you know, as we begin, and we talked about this over the course of this weekend, I won't be specific, but I think the idea that we need to hold each other accountable.
Yes.
And we need to lift each other up.
We need to encourage each other.
And even when we're not with each other, to encourage who they are and what they're doing in the marketplace.
That's right.
And I think I sense that too, and I see that in the interaction.
And it's an iron-sharpens iron thing, where you can lay an idea out there and then hear someone from a totally different perspective, give you their opinion based on where they're coming from, which is very different from you.
And boy, that's such valuable information.
And I think that God really refines us by being able to hear from folks like you.
And all of us come from so many different backgrounds and so many different perspectives.
And we've had so many different experiences.
And so what a rich time.
It really was.
Very.
I just want to ask you, are you working on a project now?
I am.
I'm always working on a project.
I love that about you, Rick.
That's the first thing I asked him.
What are you working on when I saw him the other day?
I go, what are you working on, Rick?
And you said.
We just finished shooting a movie called When We Last Spoke.
Trump Prophecy Movie Reunion 00:03:05
And I had so much fun with this film.
It's period 60s.
So we had 60s outfits, which were always fun, the polka dots and the stripes and everything.
And hairdos and cars.
I'm a car nut.
And we had, you know, there were days on set when it looked like we were at a car show.
There were just cars coming and going from everywhere, just fun.
And so everything was 60s.
And the setting was a very small town radio station.
So 60s music.
We licensed over 40 hits from the 60s that play through the course of this movie.
Us baby boomers are going to love that, I can tell you right now.
It's fun.
The story's about two little girls, an eight-year-old and a 10-year-old, who during the 60s, dad's off in Vietnam.
Mom decides, I don't like this small town life, so she drops the kids off with the grandparents and takes off to New York.
So the kids are growing up with their grandparents, and it's Melissa Gilbert and Corbin Burnson playing the grandparents.
And then great-grandma has to come live with them, too, because she's got dementia.
And that's Cloris Leachman.
Oh, my.
And so we have this generational family living in this two-bedroom house.
And it's fun, and it's just, it's that roller coaster of laughing one minute, crying the next.
But it's a great story of redemption and forgiveness and relational getting to know each other.
It's a great story.
And when we're excited about it, that'll be in theaters third quarter of this year.
So it'll be in theaters first and then released on DVD probably toward the first of next year.
Great.
I can't wait to see that.
Oh, wow.
Well, Rick, it's so good to have you on the show today.
Thank you.
It's great to see you.
It's so great to see you here.
And we're looking forward to coming back to our show.
Yes.
And we've got some exciting things we're cooking up here together that can really bless the Christian people.
And thank you for producing films that the whole family can watch.
Well, thank you guys for letting people know about them.
You know, I think we encourage each other and help each other.
And I appreciate so much what you guys are doing.
Well, we had a great time at Trump Prophecy Movie.
I guess that was just called.
I just loved it.
But it was just that we all were there.
It was like all of Morningside went to the same theater.
And so, honestly, it was like Mayberry.
I'm serious.
You know, we're all talking together, we're all there, and then all join hands and pray together at the end of the movie.
That's pretty wild.
About the Trump Prophecy movie, or Trump Prophecy movie, is that it's going to be in...
It'll be in Walmart, as a Walmart exclusive, starting March the 5th.
That's great.
In cap, so you walk down the aisle.
In-cap means when you walk down the aisle, it's in front of you.
Uncle Henry's Legacy 00:02:36
It's right there.
And so we're excited about that and having a broader base for letting the world see this movie and take it home with them and share it with friends.
Yes, that's somewhere.
Great to have you here.
It's so good to see you.
I've really been thinking about this the whole time.
You told me that you live here in Charlotte.
That's right.
You were born not too far from here.
That's right.
And you knew someone who worked with me.
I did.
One of my, actually one of my spiritual fathers and my youth pastor was Steve Bird.
And Steve Bird pastored.
What church?
He pastored Garr Memorial here in his last New York.
And the Gars were amazing people.
I came in at the end of the elder Gars, and then their son, Brother Garr, Alfred.
He pastored.
You know, Alfred Garr helped liberate in the camps, the camps where the Jews were being murdered.
Really?
And Alswich.
Yes.
And he has the pictures of what it was when he walked in there and they walked.
And I've seen it.
I've seen his pictures.
And I'll tell you what, nobody will ever tell me that people say that didn't happen.
My God, it happened.
And they know it happened.
But this was the Gars.
And then Brother Bird, he helped, he took over that church.
But he was one of the co-hosts on the PTL Club on television as we begin our worldwide trip on television.
He was amazing.
I just found out from you that he's gone to be with the Lord.
He is.
He just had such a presence about him.
He was just, he'd give you a big bear hug.
Yeah, he's a great guy.
He was, everybody that watched our show, he was pre-Uncle Henry.
He was the Uncle Henry before Uncle Henry.
I'm so learning things about Jim Baker.
See, Rick, you're bringing it back to life for Jim.
This is so exciting because you are.
So we're in the family of God, and there's a circle in this family.
Right now, we're going to switch back to Gray Street at Morningside.
I've got them all mixed up here.
This is Heritage, USA, and this is Main Street USA.
And we're going back now to Morningside.
Thank you, Rick.
We love you.
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