White Stone Studios
Important Notice
This Investor Overview is for vision-casting, project awareness, and private discussion only. It is not an offer to sell securities, a solicitation to invest, or a promise of financial return.
Any formal investment, revenue participation, ownership structure, securities offering, or financial arrangement related to White Stone Studios or The White Stone Legacy must be prepared and reviewed by qualified legal and financial counsel.
Support does not provide ownership, revenue participation, creative control, voting rights, legal authority, canon authority, or operational decision rights.
Studio / flagship distinction: White Stone Studios is the production studio and creative engine behind a new slate of clean, family, faith-based cinematic media. The White Stone Legacy is the studio’s flagship series project, based on A White Stone and The Elect by Jim and Merry Corbett.
Table of Contents
- Founder’s Statement
- Executive Summary
- Mission
- Studio & Flagship Relationship
- Source Material & Authority
- Audience & Opportunity
- Production Approach
- Industry Context
- Series Format
- Development & Funding
- Partnership Invitation
- Next Steps & Contact
1. Founder’s Statement
White Stone Studios exists because the world needs more than content.
It needs Jesus Christ — and it needs stories that honor Him with excellence.
In a media culture often marked by compromise, spiritual confusion, and disposable entertainment, White Stone Studios is being built to produce clean, family, faith-based, Hollywood-quality movies, television series, and commercials.
Our work is designed to glorify Jesus Christ, strengthen families, and invite viewers to follow Him without sacrificing production quality.
The White Stone Legacy is the studio’s flagship series. Adapted from A White Stone and The Elect by Jim and Merry Corbett, it asks a single urgent question:
The end times are the setting. Discipleship is the story. Jesus Christ is the Hero.
We reject both mediocrity and compromise. Clean does not mean simplistic. Faith-based does not mean inferior. Excellence honors God.
White Stone Studios is being established as a lasting platform for high-quality faith-centered content. The White Stone Legacy is the first fruit of that commitment.
2. Executive Summary
White Stone Studios is a faith-based production studio focused on clean, family, Hollywood-quality media across three primary formats: feature films, television series, and commercials.
The studio’s flagship project is The White Stone Legacy, a premium dramatic series adapted from A White Stone and The Elect by Jim and Merry Corbett. The series is planned as four seasons of eight episodes each, creating a 32-episode initial story arc.
The studio’s core conviction is simple: Jesus Christ is the Hero. The flagship series explores the cost and beauty of true discipleship rather than using the end times as mere spectacle.
White Stone Studios uses an AI-assisted and CGI production model supported by Grok Imagine or similar tools and the studio’s Mission Control production system. This model is designed to support visual consistency, character continuity, controlled costs, faster iteration, and repeatable production across multiple projects.
| Area | Overview |
|---|---|
| Studio | White Stone Studios |
| Positioning | Clean, family, faith-based, Hollywood-quality media |
| Flagship Project | The White Stone Legacy |
| Source Material | A White Stone and The Elect by Jim and Merry Corbett |
| Initial Series Plan | Four seasons, eight episodes per season, 32 total episodes |
| Production Model | AI-assisted CGI using Grok Imagine or similar tools, supported by Mission Control |
| Season One Planning Budget | $300,000 fully loaded planning projection |
| Four-Season Planning Projection | $2,437,500, based on a 50% season-over-season scaling assumption |
| Partner Role | Support production, release, marketing, prayer, and audience advocacy; no creative, legal, canon, workflow, or operational control |
3. Mission
White Stone Studios exists to produce clean, family, faith-based, Hollywood-quality movies, television series, and commercials that glorify Jesus Christ and call people to follow Him.
We refuse the false choice between conviction and excellence. Our standard is both.
The studio’s mission is not simply to make content. It is to create media that carries truth, strengthens families, respects biblical conviction, and reaches viewers through professional-quality storytelling.
Technology, funding, marketing, and distribution are tools. They are not the center. The mission remains the center.
4. Studio & Flagship Relationship
White Stone Studios is the production studio.
The White Stone Legacy is the flagship series.
This distinction matters because the studio vision is broader than one project. The flagship series is the first major expression of the studio’s mission, production model, and quality standard, but the long-term goal is a slate of clean, family, faith-based media across multiple formats.
| Element | Role |
|---|---|
| White Stone Studios | The studio platform, production engine, operating identity, and long-term content banner |
| The White Stone Legacy | The flagship dramatic series and first major studio project |
| Mission Control | The studio’s internal production system for structured story extraction, continuity, and prompt generation |
| Future Slate | Additional films, series, commercials, and approved faith-based or family-centered media projects |
5. Source Material & Authority
The White Stone Legacy is adapted from A White Stone and The Elect by Jim and Merry Corbett.
Jim and Merry Corbett retain final authority on story intent and canon. The adaptation philosophy is translation, not reinterpretation. Any material change to canon requires deliberate review.
This source-material authority protects the flagship series from drift. It also demonstrates the studio’s larger operating principle: faith-based storytelling must be handled with reverence, discipline, and excellence.
| Authority Area | Guiding Standard |
|---|---|
| Story Intent | Final authority remains with Jim and Merry Corbett for the flagship series |
| Adaptation | Translation, not reinterpretation |
| Canon Changes | Deliberate review required |
| Creative Control | Remains under project leadership and approved authority structures |
6. Audience & Opportunity
The primary audience includes Christian families, churches, small groups, faith-based media viewers, and seekers willing to engage substantive spiritual questions through story.
The broader opportunity is larger than one series. White Stone Studios is being built to deliver multiple films, series, and commercials under the same non-negotiable standards of cleanliness, family focus, biblical faithfulness, and production excellence.
Beyond the flagship series, White Stone Studios can develop a broader slate of clean, family, faith-based content. One possible future project is a public-domain adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, approached with the same commitment to excellence, moral clarity, and production quality. This would allow the studio to expand into recognizable classic literature while maintaining creative control and avoiding expensive rights acquisition.
| Audience Segment | Why It Matters |
|---|---|
| Christian Families | Looking for serious, clean, meaningful stories that can be watched and discussed together |
| Churches | Need high-quality media that can support approved conversations around faith, courage, discernment, and discipleship |
| Small Groups | Can engage episode-based questions, reflection, and approved study materials |
| Faith-Based Media Viewers | Already support Christian film, series, books, music, and direct-to-audience campaigns |
| Seekers | May engage spiritual truth through story before they are ready for direct theological conversation |
| Commercial / Organizational Clients | May need clean, high-quality commercials and visual media aligned with family or faith-based values |
7. Production Approach
White Stone Studios uses an AI-assisted and CGI production model. This allows high visual quality and strong continuity without the full cost structure of traditional location-based live-action production.
Resources are concentrated on story, character consistency, design, editing, voice, sound, music, finishing, legal review, and quality control. Technology serves the mission; it does not define it.
White Stone Studios operates Mission Control, a proprietary production system that ingests books or scripts and systematically extracts characters, locations, props, scene structure, and continuity details. From that structured data, Mission Control supports consistent, production-ready prompts for the AI tools in the pipeline.
Mission Control is already in daily use and has been applied in pilot productions currently available through the studio’s public channels. Those pilot examples have collectively exceeded 500,000 views. The system is designed to protect story integrity, maintain visual and character consistency across episodes and projects, and reduce the cost and drift common in large-scale generative production.
This production approach supports both The White Stone Legacy and future films, series, and commercials under the same quality standard.
| Traditional Production Burden | White Stone Studios Approach |
|---|---|
| Physical location shoots | Digital environments and CGI-native production |
| Live-action actor schedules | Digital character and voice workflow under studio direction |
| Large on-site crews | Smaller, digitally focused production structure |
| Weather delays and permits | Controlled digital production environment |
| Traditional set construction | Reusable digital environments and assets |
| High reshoot costs | Iterative digital refinement and controlled revisions |
8. Industry Context
Recent faith-based and biblical projects show two important realities: serious spiritual storytelling can attract large audiences, and traditional high-quality production can become very expensive as scale increases.
The Chosen demonstrated the strength of audience-supported faith-based media. SEC filings reported that its early 2018–2019 campaign raised just over $11 million and was the most crowdfunded television/movie project of its time. Later reporting has described the series as a global phenomenon with significant theatrical revenue and broad international reach.
House of David demonstrated that biblical drama can perform strongly on major streaming platforms. Public reports stated that Season One attracted 22 million viewers in its first 17 days on Prime Video and later exceeded 40 million viewers globally. Industry reporting also noted the production’s use of generative AI and virtual-production techniques to reduce the cost and time required for certain large-scale visual sequences.
White Stone Studios is not positioned as a direct competitor to either project. These examples are included only to show that there is clear audience interest in serious faith-centered storytelling and that new production models are becoming relevant to the future of high-quality media.
| Factor | The Chosen / House of David | White Stone Studios Approach |
|---|---|---|
| Core Production Model | Primarily traditional live-action, with reported selective AI / virtual-production support in some cases | AI-assisted CGI from the ground up |
| Cost Trajectory | Public reports indicate rising costs as scope and production values increase | Designed for greater cost predictability through digital production and reusable workflows |
| Audience Demand | Strong demonstrated demand for biblical and faith-centered drama | Targets clean, family, faith-based audiences with a scalable studio model |
| Content Emphasis | Biblical narrative and character-driven storytelling | Discipleship under pressure; clean, family, faith-based stories across multiple formats |
| Distribution Flexibility | App, theatrical, streaming, and platform partnerships | Flexible across direct-to-audience, streaming, private support, public campaigns, churches, and approved partner channels |
The White Stone Studios opportunity is to pursue comparable seriousness, spiritual weight, and production excellence while building from a different foundation: AI-assisted CGI, internal continuity systems, controlled digital workflows, and phased funding.
9. Series Format
The flagship series is planned as a four-season, 32-episode adaptation arc.
| Season | Episodes | Source | Focus |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season One | 8 | A White Stone | Establish the world, characters, tone, and call to discipleship |
| Season Two | 8 | A White Stone | Deepen consequences and complete the first major adaptation block |
| Season Three | 8 | The Elect | Expand the arc, raise the stakes, and continue the story world |
| Season Four | 8 | The Elect | Bring the initial 32-episode story arc toward culmination |
| Total Initial Arc | 32 | Two novels | Four-season flagship series |
The series is designed to be clean and suitable for families while remaining serious in spiritual weight, dramatic consequence, and cinematic presentation.
10. Development & Funding
Foundational work is underway, including series architecture, Season One development, visual and workflow testing, and legal frameworks. Pilot productions created through the studio’s workflow are already public and have collectively surpassed 500,000 views.
The current Season One planning projection is $300,000 fully loaded. This is a planning estimate, not a formal offering budget or guarantee. Final budgets and any formal financial terms must be reviewed by qualified counsel.
Season One Planning Projection
| Category | Projected Amount |
|---|---|
| Hardware: PCs and Macs for production | $45,000 |
| Software and subscriptions | $25,000 |
| Founder / production salary | $180,000 |
| Contingency, overruns, and extras | $50,000 |
| Total Season One | $300,000 |
Four-Season Planning Projection
The following projection assumes a 50% increase per season to account for expanded scope, higher production values, scaling needs, additional assets, and future growth. These are planning numbers only.
| Season | Projected Cost |
|---|---|
| Season One | $300,000 |
| Season Two | $450,000 |
| Season Three | $675,000 |
| Season Four | $1,012,500 |
| Total Seasons One–Four | $2,437,500 |
Even at these projected levels, the AI-assisted model and Mission Control system are designed to keep overall costs dramatically lower than traditional live-action biblical or faith-based series at comparable scope.
Funding is intended to be structured in phases rather than as a single all-or-nothing raise. This allows the studio to move from development and proof-of-concept into Season One production, release, and future-season readiness with discipline.
Formal investment terms, if offered, will be prepared by qualified legal and financial counsel.
11. Partnership Invitation
White Stone Studios invites aligned supporters to help establish the studio and bring The White Stone Legacy to the screen.
Support may include production funding, release and marketing support, prayer, and audience advocacy. Future support may extend to additional films, series, and commercials.
Partners are not invited into creative control, canon decisions, writing and adaptation, legal structure, AI / CGI workflow, church or ministry strategy, strategic relationships, or operational authority. Those areas remain with the authors where story and canon are concerned, and with White Stone Studios leadership and qualified counsel where production, operations, legal structure, and strategy are concerned.
| Protected Area | Authority Boundary |
|---|---|
| Story Intent and Canon | Jim and Merry Corbett retain story-intent authority for the flagship series |
| Writing and Adaptation | Directed internally to preserve translation, not reinterpretation |
| Legal Structure | Prepared by qualified legal and financial counsel |
| AI / CGI Workflow | Managed internally by White Stone Studios leadership |
| Church and Ministry Engagement | Directed internally to protect mission alignment and avoid outside control |
| Strategic Relationships | Pursued only through project leadership |
| Operational Authority | Remains with White Stone Studios leadership |
This is an invitation to help build a studio and steward a story that asks:
White Stone Studios is committed to clean, family, faith-based content produced at Hollywood quality.
The White Stone Legacy is the first expression of that commitment.
A story of the end.
A call to follow Christ.
12. Next Steps & Contact
For private discussion, supporter conversations, investor inquiries, or approved project review, please contact:
James Klinger
James Klinger
Phone: 336-740-4106
Website: https://wss.vkjv.org/
If you have received this overview by invitation, please do not copy, distribute, or circulate it beyond approved recipients without written permission from project leadership.
Source Notes
- The Chosen early crowdfunding claim is based on SEC filings stating that the 2018–2019 campaign raised just over $11 million and was the most crowdfunded television/movie project of its time. Source: Chosen, LLC SEC filing.
- The Chosen global box-office context is based on 2025 reporting and Prime Video release materials describing cumulative global theatrical grosses around or above $140 million. Sources: Prime Video release via The Futon Critic and People.
- The Chosen global audience references are included as publicly reported/claimed reach, not as independently audited project economics. Sources include People and The Guardian.
- House of David viewership references are based on public reporting that Season One attracted 22 million viewers in its first 17 days and later exceeded 40 million viewers globally. Sources: Forbes and Reuters.
- House of David AI / virtual-production references are based on reporting that Season Two used hundreds of AI shots and virtual-production techniques to reduce the cost and time required for certain large-scale visual sequences. Sources: WIRED and Los Angeles Times.