Pearson said he will preach in two churches while he is in Atlanta to give Ejiofor a feel for the spontaneity and music of a Pentecostal service. He will offer information about his old church office and Oral Roberts’ office, and will bring in Pentecostal preachers as advisers.

“They want it to be comprehensive and not one-sided,” he said.

The film will be produced by Endgame Entertainment, which produced “Hotel Rwanda,” he said. NPR and Netflix also are involved.

Pearson said the story will be “basically, Oral’s desperate love for his son, … his black son, as he called me. He wanted to save me from what I went through.”

Pearson once pastored the 5,000-member Higher Dimensions Family Church in Tulsa. He was an adviser to two U.S. presidents and a spiritual mentor to NFL great Deion Sanders. His Azusa Street conference drew 50,000 people to the Oral Roberts University Mabee Center. He appeared regularly on national Christian television.

In about 2000, Pearson underwent a theological shift and became a universalist, one who believes all people will go to heaven, which put him outside orthodox Christianity.