Brent McCorkle
Brent McCorkle has transitioned from work as an editor and composer to film director, working often with the Christian filmmaking duo The Erwin Brothers. McCorkle, after working as editor and composer on short films, made his feature debut as director/writer/editor/composer on Unconditional (2012), starring Lynn Collins, Michael Ealy, and Bruce McGill, earning a global gross of $1.03 million, which fell short of the $2 million costs.
McCorkle was editor on The Erwin Brothers’ sports movie, Woodlawn (2015), starring Caleb Castille, Sean Astin, Jon Voight, C. Thomas Howell, and then McCorkle was composer on the Erwin Brothers‘s biographical documentary, Steve McQueen: American Icon (2017) McCorkle was both editor and composer of the Erwins’ next film and their biggest hit ($86 million gross), I Can Only Imagine (2018).
Brent McCorkle was then the composer for the Ben Smallbone-directed documentary, Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon (2022). McCorkle finally returned to the director’s chair (as co-director, with Jon Erwin) for the Christian drama, Jesus Revolution (2023), with Joel Courtney, Jonathan Roumie, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, and Kelsey Grammer. McCorkle was co-director with Andrew Erwin of the sequel I Can Only Imagine 2 (2026), starring John Michael Finley, Milo Ventimiglia, Sophie Skelton, Trace Adkins, and Dennis Quaid, and released widely by Lionsgate.
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Personal life
Brent McCorkle lives in Nashville, Tennessee. He has been married for 24 years and has five children.
Brent McCorkle Movies
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Jesus Revolution
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The true story of a national spiritual awakening in the early 1970s and its origins within a community of teenage hippies in Southern California.
Facts About Brent McCorkle
Star Wars Fan: Brent McCorkle claims that he stopped counting how many times he watched Star Wars (1977) as a kid after he watched it 40 times.
