VIDEO: Garth Brooks discusses Lifetime movie based on ‘Unanswered Prayers’
For years folks have been knocking on Chris Gaines’ Garth Brooks’ door to try and get the rights to one of his hit songs and turn it in to a movie script. According to the reclusive artist he has been steadfast in refusing to allow this to happen until the right offer came. In an odd pairing it looks like the right person was Tanya Lopez, Senior Vice President of movies for Lifetime Television.
That’s right, Garth has went with Lifetime to tell the story of his hit song “Unanswered Prayers.” Brooks told New York Daily News that:
“She’s a doll, she came in and said, ‘We don’t want to change anything. We just want to make your song into a movie.”
The movie which premiered Monday night on the network stars Eric Close and Samantha Mathis and, true to the song, features a married man who runs into his old high school flame. In a rare sit down video interview Garth discussed his willingness to do the movie in further detail. Here’s the clip:
“Lifetime took this movie as a piece of real life and they just want to film it and put it in the living rooms so the husbands and wives of the future may not have to make the same mistakes we’ve made in the past.” – Garth Brooks
Sounds like Brooks is really caught up in how important he believes his song “Unanswered Prayers” is. It can become a movie and save the marriages of the world!
Brooks, who is famously divorced and now married to fellow country singer Trisha Yearwood, released the song “Unanswered Prayers” back in 1990 and it went straight to the top spot of Billboard’s country charts. Ironically the wife he’s thankful for having instead of an old flame in the song is his his now ex-wife Sandy Mahl. The song was co-written by Brooks, Pat Alger and Larry Bastian.
I would include a clip of the song performed by Garth but the dude has a stranglehold on his stuff on this here internet. So I’ll go another route and provide a cover version by Mr. Adam Price:
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