Producer · Storyteller · Building @WatchStuDEO — films of Truth, Goodness & Beauty. Princess and the Goblin + In The Arena. Faith, family, freedom.
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I didn't grow up with this book.
I found MacDonald as an adult, and he changed how I see faith, fear, and the unseen.
That's why The Princess and the Goblin is our first.
It deserves a film made with the same care he put into the story.
The Princess and the Goblin is in development at StuDEO.
George MacDonald wrote it in 1872. A princess, a miner boy, goblins beneath the mountain, and a grandmother’s thread that never breaks.
Families have kept it for 150 years. We aim to bring it to the big screen with care.
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We’ve been told Hollywood has gates. It doesn’t. It has a curtain, and behind it, three levers.
One curtain. Three levers. One weight that moves them all.
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She knows the movies she wants aren’t being made.
She thinks nothing she does will matter.
She is all of us. And we’ve always had the power.
Tomorrow: The Entertainment Industrial Complex, Plainly.
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The sower.
Diligent, because the work will yield in its time and bear fruit.
At times, diligence gives way to urgency; the briars are not turned under, and the land is left unprepared.
The work is strenuous, but the seasons demand obedience if the harvest is to come.
🤖 Made with AI
ALT Ecclesiastes 3:9-11 - “What gain has the worker from his toil?"
ALT Ecclesiastes 3:9-11 - "I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.”
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He has put eternity into man’s heart.
A child’s eyes, a window to the soul. Trusting before the mind perceives the vow.
The vow is the work.
Tilling and sowing. Kneading and baking.
Nurture and admonition. Diligence and obedience.
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ALT Ecclesiastes 3:12 - "I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live..." Mother and daughter enjoying the labor of breadmaking.
ALT Ecclesiastes 3:13 - "also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God’s gift to man." A mother’s joy in the pleasure and care of the young soul.
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I have never read this book. I have no reach. I don’t know Don. However...
I like his effort, and the book looks cool! So...
- If 100 people buy this book (it’s all for the KIDS!)
- And those 100 quote this post with a pic of themselves in their favorite family reading nook, with the book open (or displayed on their device)
- I will buy a copy and do the same!
Oh, and you should leave a review of Don’s book, too!
It’s day 66 of my mission to pay off my debt behind my wife’s back by selling 20,000 copies of my book, Sean Dirts and the Hidden City. She’ll be so grateful for however far we get in this goal, but I’d love to get all the way for her.
#bookstagram #middlegradebooks #mglit #day1 #debtfree
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Grok knows there's value in the search, that meaning can be found, and that excellence in the Golden Age of story and cinema can be revived to that end.
Here he is: the ~718-follower producer building WatchStuDEO films of truth, goodness, and beauty. Faith, family, and freedom first. Longevity and abundance mean little without wonder and purpose from the One who made all things.
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You look at this and you wonder, "What am I following for?"
Simple answer — Impact.
Many of these kind souls want to turn the world upside-down again!
Add @WatchStuDEO to THAT list! One movie or show at a time!
Analog life.
Accomplishment. A smell of oil burning off the manifold.
Wealth. A cacophony of pots, pans, silverware, and gathering voices settling into "how was your day?"
Comfort. A waft of burnt hair as big sister yields to fifth in line for the hall bath.
The vow. Living.
Just a reminder that it’s normal to drive your car until it dies, cook dinner most nights, live in a smaller home, pack your lunch, keep your phone until it stops working, buy used before buying new, make coffee at home, and wear the same clothes for years.
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In a foster home, the kitchen table matters more than the house.
Set one more plate. Leave the light on.
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Quite a few people have replied to this "challenge."
"Beautiful things" are being made.
Wouldn't it be great if Mr. Marsden engaged those who are getting it done?
Every boost counts for those who need an audience to support what they ARE DOING!
We need to make beautiful things.
Great movies that inspire hope.
Amazing music that lifts souls.
These things are not trivial.
Our abandonment of them has contributed to the desperation of the youth.
They have very little to inspire them.
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Adapting a book isn’t copying it.
It’s asking what the reader felt and finding a way for the audience to feel it too.
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We have to rediscover an active politic of first principles, a new and uniquely American Anti-Revolutionary Party.
What we need is "The Practice of Political Spirituality".
BEGIN: cantaroinstitute.org/wp-cont…
In looking at causes for tonight’s results, one important data point—in the 2022 midterms, around 24% of white evangelical Christians (the most reliably conservative bloc of religious voters) voted. In 2026, only 17% did.
In other words, a significant amount of America’s salt decided not to have flavor when it comes to elections. And when that happens, it fails to preserve.
nbcnews.com/politics/2026-el…
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I came to MacDonald as a grown man.
He didn’t talk down to me. He wrote like the child in me was still listening.
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We reclaim by telling our own stories of faith, family and heritage, and freedom purchased by the blood of our bravest, in service to the One True King who died, and was raised to seat an eternal throne.
The story of The Princess and the Goblin is our first.
Believe. Trust.
Every story starts with an empty seat.
Somebody has to believe a person will sit in it.
Somebody has to make a film worth sitting for.
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Song of the South turns 80 in November.
March 20, 1948: The Academy gave James Baskett a statuette "for his able and heart-warming characterization of Uncle Remus, friend and storyteller to the children of the world."
Ed calls it an Eternal Oscar. I think he's right.
#FreeUncleRemus
Song of the South turns 80 in November!?!?!
For the love of all things Free Speech, @elonmusk, will you help us license/acquire this to stream, so all the world can celebrate Oscar winning actor James Baskett?
#FreeUncleRemus
@glennbeck Will you please do a segment on Oscar winning actor James Baskett?He was Uncle Remus in Walt Disney's Song of the South. In Nov this purged film turns 80.He's the first black man to receive an Oscar, it was a superior eternal Oscar for this role.I have lots of docs.
Come on, @elonmusk, let's get this movie back on the big screen and into the homes of families everywhere!
#FreeJamesBaskett
And this is my thread analyzing James Baskett's Oscar winning performance. nitter.gq/Real_Ed_McCray/status/…
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