Octavia Spencer to play God in B.C.-shot film ‘The Shack’

TORONTO — Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer is heading to Vancouver to play God in The Shack.

The movie is an adaptation of William P. Young’s 2007 novel of the same name. It’s about a man who receives a note, apparently from God, inviting him to the abandoned shack where his daughter was presumably murdered four years earlier.

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More than 18 million copies of the book have been sold around the world.

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The Shack will be directed by Stuart Hazeldine in B.C. from June 8 to July 29.

Spencer, 44, won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for 2011’s The Help. She has since appeared in films like Snowpiercer, Get On Up and The Divergent Series: Insurgent as well as TV series Mom and Red Band Society.

Additional casting information will be announced soon.