For King & Country make feature film
Music fans know brothers Joel and Luke Smallbone from their Grammy-winning duo For King & Country, but next year the men plan to make the move to the silver screen.
The brothers will star alongside Bianca Santos, Jim Parrack and David Koechner in “Priceless,” a feature film set in the world of human trafficking that will be in theaters in fall 2016.
Joel Smallbone portrays lead character James Stevenson, a desperate man who hopes love will redefine his past and change his future. He risks his happiness to shut down the trafficking ring.
Joel Smallbone, who wrote the film's synopsis and initial story with brothers Ben and Luke Smallbone and Jacob “Cubbie” Fink, said the movie is a marriage of two stories. Five years ago Ben Smallbone helped film a documentary that followed a one time pimp who turned into a human trafficking rescuer. The second prong of inspiration comes from Joel and Luke Smallbone's joint respect for women.
"Since the inception of For King & Country, Luke and I have felt passionately about healthy relationships," Joel Smallbone said. "It reminds us as men to be chivalrous and honor women for all their beauty and abilities."
Ben Smallbone will direct “Priceless,” and Steve Barnett and Fink will produce the movie. Joel and Luke Smallbone are supervising producers.