Daniel, did, uh, did growing up with this name make the story personal?

Yeah, I think, and, and we've, we've been asked this a bunch 'cause all four of the Cooman brothers have biblical names, and it's so apparent in the, you know, the Old Testament narrative how, and, well, and New Testament, that names are identity and are, are power.

You know? Like, um, Abram becoming Abraham.

You know, the, these stories are so incredibly powerful, and we've, we've definitely seen in our own life and even the way that we named our children how that impacts identity.

I mean, being a Daniel, I mean, I literally have dreams and, you know, I've been told by others that I have the ability to interpret dreams.

But, you know, it, it's like there's, there's actually something in your name.

And so, um, it wasn't just on a whim that w- you know, that we were given these names, Matthew, Daniel, you know, Andrew, and, and Chris.

Mm.

[laughs]

... all the critics out there.

Um, it, it really was a behemoth to undertake it, you know.

Um, one thing that is...

Y- you do have to have, there's a great...

For those that have seen it and wanna see it again in theaters, there's a great line from King Nebuchadnezzar that people laugh at in, in the movie 'cause it's, it's just so well delivered.

He says to Daniel that he's very audacious.

So, uh, talk about now what, what, what was the steps involved to kinda get here? Talk about now, you know, how did you get here? H- how, uh, now that you've got a little bit of hindsight, what do you think worked about this? Why did this work?

Talk to me about, one, why was that important? And two, how difficult was it to actually scout?

Mm-hmm.

Well, it was difficult because when we first arrived for the scout, it was it was a time where people don't really go to the desert in India.

And so it was about 44 Celsius actual, you know, the reading I saw and incredibly hot.

You're surrounded by sand.

There was no shade.

You know, we're scouting in the desert and you kind of arrive there.

I mean, what were the conversations like when kind of going through the scripting process?

So Daniel, tell us, first of all, how it is that you guys really developed the ideas to do this film.

Well, Bob, we had this, you know, we discovered something hiding in plain sight in Scripture, which it forms the bookends of the Daniel and the Fiery Furnace movie.

We can't give away the twist.

You know, there's a twist.

You have to see it.

This is like an M.

Night Shyamalan movie.

So how do you explore just kind of the complicated nature of the relationship between Daniel and arguably the antagonist, the villain, if you will, of this film?

So Daniel, tell us, first of all, how it is that you guys really developed the ideas to do this film.

Well, Bob, we had this, you know, we discovered something hiding in plain sight in Scripture, which it forms the bookends of the Daniel and the Fiery Furnace movie.

We can't give away the twist.

You know, there's a twist.

You have to see it.

This is like an M.

Night Shyamalan movie.

So how do you explore just kind of the complicated nature of the relationship between Daniel and arguably the antagonist, the villain, if you will, of this film?

You know, how many theaters do you think you're going to play the first weekend? How can we help get the movie into more theaters? Can you pre-buy tickets? Just walk me through the logistics so we can really help this win.

Oh, we love that question because there is actually a serious way that people can be helpful.

So when you go to and you can get the link from the one you said, you can also go to DanielMovieTickets.com, which is a direct link to check if your theater is listed.

Because we have about 500 theatres currently listed, but we're aiming for about 1,200.

And it is going up every single day because there's been such a demand of pre-ordered tickets.

So when people actually reserve a ticket now, they're literally helping us get into more theatres because the exhibitor chains, of which there's three primary ones in America, they see how those other ones are doing and how the pre-sales are going.

So it literally can make all the difference between us getting into twice as many theatres People that have the theater go to DanielMovieTickets.com and reserve their ticket, you know, for a showtime that, you know, you can get on opening weekend, September 18th to 20th kind of a thing.

So tell me, how did you send out the word, hey, we're doing a casting call, and what kind of people showed up?