For Your Consideration: Watch the Trailer For Best Picture 2014: LEFT BEHIND

 

The Nicolas Cage rapture-themed drama debuted it's first trailer today on the heels of yesterday's poster drop, and it actually looks pretty good.
Based on the New York Times Best Selling series, LEFT BEHIND follows Academy Award-Winner and Ghost Rider Nicolas Cage as airline pilot Rayford Steele as he deals with half of his plane vanishing (along with half of the world entirely) as the Biblical Rapture begins 30,000 feet in the air.

It's been a good time for spiritual movie-goers, with such films as Son of God raking in over $70 million off it's $20 million budget, God's Not Dead raking in $60 million off it's $2 million budget, and Heaven is for Real gaining almost $90 million off a modest $12 million budget. 
One thing is for sure, faith-based films are getting bigger and bigger, and I doubt if LEFT BEHIND leaves anything behind when it opens this October. 

The film also has a good boost from being based off the 16 book series (selling over 63 million copies) as well as having 3 films already in it's franchise with 2 PC games as well as graphic novels and audio-books.

The final book in the series, Kingdom Come: The Final Victory was released in 2007. 

Without warning, millions of people around the globe simply vanish.

All that remains are their clothes and belongings … and an overwhelming sense of terror. The vanishings cause unmanned vehicles to crash and burn. Emergency forces everywhere are devastated. Gridlock, riots and looting overrun the cities. And there is no one to help or provide answers. In an instant, the earth has been plunged into darkness. For RAY STEELE, the pilot of a jumbo jet, it means trying to calm his hysterical passengers who saw loved ones vanish before their eyes. It also means trying to land his damaged plane when every airport is jammed with burning wrecks, all while wishing that he could talk to his family one last time. For BUCK WILLIAMS, the world-renowned journalist trapped at 30,000 feet, it means a struggle to understand the incomprehensible, the most devastating event in history. And for CHLOE STEELE, Ray’s daughter back on the ground, it means trying to find her mother and brother. Lost in a post-apocalyptic landscape, she is forced to head home through a world where despair and rage rule the day. This is the story of the Rapture, the story of those LEFT BEHIND.

LEFT BEHIND releases October 3, 2014.