![]() She did mention that there was a case she had followed and there were some details about George and the family situation, but we weren’t aware of that. Robert: I remember had spoken about it and the different things that went into the book. ![]() So, there were a lot of drafts trying to whittle it down to a reasonable amount of time for the movie.ĭid you research the case that this book is actually based on? I think one of the hardest things was figuring out what we could and couldn’t include in a movie-there was so much great stuff in it-and still honor the story and honor the book. Shari: It was a very long and difficult adaptation because the book is really beautiful and it’s very epic. What was the adaptation process like turning the book into a movie? Shari: We’ve always really loved the more sort of character-based scary movie, kind of like ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ and ‘Don’t Look Now,’ and we always wanted to make something in that genre and nothing ever sort of popped this book fell into that category. We came upon this book that had everything we wanted in it: It captured the spookiness of the region and the kind of continuum, the history, the very dramatic change of seasons… and it was just a great story and we really hit it off with the writer. There’s just so many details about the culture up there that always appealed to us. Robert: Well, Shari and I spend a lot of time in the Hudson Valley, we have a home there and for decades we talked about filming a movie there because we are just so in love with the landscape and the light.
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