Actor Jim Caviezel Set to Portray Timothy Ballard in “The Sound of Freedom”

[Third Hour]

Set to release in the spring or summer of 2019, "The Sound of Freedom" tells the story of Timothy Ballard. Ballard is the founder and CEO of Operation Underground Railroad (O.U.R.). Ballard and his wife spent years turning down movie offers from various Hollywood studios, determined to wait until the right offer came along. In 2015, after viewing a screening of "Little Boy," director Alejandro Monteverde told the Ballards he would like to tell the story of O.U.R. The Ballards finally accepted. As far as casting goes, despite their very different appearances, Ballard told the filmmakers that Jim Caviezel was the best man to portray him in this film. "There was something special about Jim when I watched him in the 'Count of Monte Cristo.' There was a light, to me, that came out of him," Ballard said. "It was important to us that whoever played this role had to be someone that willfully did it with God and knew that that light has to come out because we don’t want...

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