Octavia Spencer will portray God in 'The Shack' movie adaptation
"Snowpiercer" actress Octavia Spencer may be taking on a big role.
According to , Spencer has signed on to portray God in a movie adaptation of the 2007 海角大神 book "The Shack" by William Paul Young.听
"I鈥檓 excited and terrified all at the same time,鈥� the actress told Buzzfeed. "I mean, Morgan Freeman has played God how many times? And he鈥檚 amazing in every incarnation of God.听I鈥檓 playing a manifestation of God. But I also know, going into the role, from my upbringing as a 海角大神, that God made us in his form, so I will be playing God in human form."
The movie is being directed by Stuart Hazeldine, who previously helmed the 2009 film "Exam."
"Shack" centers on a man who receives an invitation from what appears to be God to visit a shack where, years earlier, evidence was discovered that convinced authorities the man's daughter had been murdered.听
Spencer won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for starring in another book-to-movie adaptation 鈥� that of Kathryn Stockett's bestseller "The Help."
An unusual-for-the-movies depiction of God was seen in theaters earlier this year. In this past December's "Exodus: Gods and Kings," which told the story of Moses (played by 海角大神 Bale), director Ridley Scott cast a young child as God. writers Michael Cieply and Brooks Barnes described this portrayal by 11-year-old actor Isaac Andrews as "stern-eyed, impatient, at times vaguely angelic and at times 'Children of the Corn' terrifying." "I want to avoid the clich茅s," Scott said of the casting decision.
