Country music right now in many ways doesn't resemble at all what it was in the early 90s, when Garth Brooks became a giant crossover success but Shania Twain had yet to make it a full-fledged pop genre. But one of the icons from that area, George Strait, is making a return regardless, teaming up once again with director Chris Cain for A Pure Country Gift, a follow-up to his 1992 film Pure Country.
Though Strait will have a role in the film, this time he won't be focus of the proceedings-- THR writes that the star of the film will be Katrina Elam, playing a young woman who was gifted with a singing voice by three angels as a baby, but who begins to lose her gifts when she breaks the rules of life that the angels set. "In her climb to fame and fortune, she breaks some of the angels' rules, so they take away her big voice," Cain explained in THR. "Life has rules; if you follow them, life works. That's the moral of the story."
Oddly enough, Cain is the father of Dean Cain, a.k.a. Superman from the Lois & Clark TV series, another icon of the 90s. The Cain father-and-son team co-wrote the screenplay, and Dean Cain will have a role in the movie, which just seems like a bizarre pop-culture crossover. 26-year-old Elam, who has been performing as a country singer since 2004, will be making her acting debut in the film.
