'Sound of Freedom' trivia and fun facts
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Changes in production
The film was going to be distributed by 20th Century Fox but ended up shelving it when Disney bought the filming studio.
Years of waiting
The movie was finished in 2018, but it would take years to release as the filmmakers were turned down by various distributing companies as they didn't want the film associated with their output, such as Netflix.
Traumas avoided
The children who acted in the film were not told the plot or context of the sequences they were filming. This was to avoid any unnecessary trauma while acting out the scenes.
His most important role
Jim Caviezel considers this his most important acting role since playing Jesus in 2004's The Passion of the Christ.
Important message
At the end of the head credits, Jim Caviezel delivers a "special message" to the theatre audience. In it he talks about how the kids in the story are the real heroes, and how the cast and crew believed in the movie so much that they hurdled various barriers to get into theatres (referencing the five year gap between the film being finished and it being released). At the end he urged movie goers to pull out their phones and use the website on screen to buy tickets for other people, urging that financial constraints should not limit people from seeing the movie.
Very profitable
Outgrossed its budget within two days of release.
Tim Ballard
Against the wishes of the producers, Tim Ballard personally insisted that Jim Caviezel play him in the film.