The Pilgrim's Progress - The Pilgrim's Progress in Films, Television, Video Games, and Music

The Pilgrim's Progress in Films, Television, Video Games, and Music

• The novel was made into a film, Pilgrim's Progress, in 1912.
• In 1950 an hour-long animated version was made by Baptista Films. This version was edited down to 35 minutes and re-released with new music in 1978. As of 2007 the original version is difficult to find, but the 1978 has been released on both VHS and DVD.
• English band Procol Harum released a song titled "Pilgrim's Progress" on their album A Salty Dog in 1969.
• In 1979, another film version was made by Ken Anderson, in which Liam Neeson played the role of the Evangelist and other smaller roles like the crucified Christ. Maurice O'Callaghan played the Pilgrim, and Peter Thomas played Worldly Wiseman. A sequel Christiana followed later.
• In 1985 Yorkshire Television produced a 129-minute 9-part serial presentation of The Pilgrim's Progress with animated stills by Alan Parry and narrated by Paul Copley entitled Dangerous Journey.
• In 1989, Orion's Gate, a producer of Biblical/Spiritual audio dramas produced The Pilgrim's Progress as a 6 hour audio dramatization. This production was followed several years later by Christiana: Pilgrim's Progress Part II, another 8 hour audio dramatization.
• In 1993, the popular Christian radio drama, Adventures in Odyssey (produced by Focus on the Family), featured a two-part story, titled "Pilgrim's Progress: Revisited."
• In 1994, "The Pilgrim's Progress" and the imprisonment of John Bunyan were the subject of the musical Celestial City by David MacAdam, with John Curtis, and an album was released in 1997.
• In 2003 Michael W. Smith wrote a song, called Signs, which he says on his A 20 Year Celebration live DVD to be inspired by the Pilgrim's Progress.
• In 2003 the game Heaven Bound was released by Emerald Studios. The 3D adventure-style game, based on the novel, was only released for the PC.
• A 2006 computer animation version was made, directed and narrated by Scott Cawthon.
• The novel is frequently alluded to in the video game Deus Ex: Invisible War. Saman, a significant character, utilizes its allegories to create purpose in his speech; "Young enemy, thy name is Pliable... you bend your ear to the Worldly Wiseman, to continue the archaic analogy.". If the player makes the choice to side with the Templar faction at the end of the game, after the cinematic, the quote appears, taken from both the novel and Proverbs 21:16 - "He that wandereth out of the way of understanding, shall remain in the congregation of the dead." Curiously, the player's actions towards the Templar faction are not entirely unlike the struggle of Christian throughout the Pilgrim's Progress.
• In 2008, a version by Danny Carrales,Pilgrim's Progress: Journey to Heaven, was produced.
• At the 2009 San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival, the adaptation Pilgrim's Progress: Journey to Heaven received one nomination for best feature length independent film and one nomination for best music score.
• British music band Kula Shaker released an album called Pilgrim's Progress on 28 June 2010.
• Director Todd Fietkau is making a version of Pilgrim's Progress.
• The family film The Wylds was inspired by The Pilgrim's Progress.
• Jim Winder performs a live telling of Pilgrim's Progress (the first part) with contemporary Christian songs based on the story line and Biblical content.
• There is a Family Guy episode titled "Peter's Progress."