Author Julie Gilbert Discusses the Writing of Her New Book ‘Giant Love’
Julie Gilbert Today, we delve into the enduring relevance of the themes explored by Pulitzer Prize -winning author Edna Ferber
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“Screenwriter and director Nora Fingscheidt sat down with ScreenCraft to break down her process for adapting a memoir. Some books just seem impossible to bring to the silver screen. Whether the story outpaces current technology or it’s a sweeping memoir filled with interior thoughts, novels present unique challenges that often make screenwriters feel some books are unadaptable. But challenges can spark some of the most creative solutions. Nora Fingscheidt , the writer and director of the Sundance hit film The Outrun , faced this unique challenge when tasked with adapting Amy Liptrot’s Wainwright Prize and PEN/Ackerley Prize-winning memoir. Fingscheidt sat down with ScreenCraft to discuss how she brought this complicated story to life, turning emotional beats into action, and discovering the biggest challenge when translating the script into a final cut. Enter Now | Regular Deadline in 23 days Adapting the Unadaptable How do you adapt a book that is mostly internal thoughts with minimal action? It’s a tough pitch to crack, even for a seasoned writer. “For the first half, I thought, OK there’s no film. This is unadaptable, because, you know, [Liptrot] book started off as an internet blog, and it almost feels like you are reading someone’s diary. It’s so internal. It’s just like a thought process of memory layers, it jumps in four lines in one sentence,” Fingscheidt tells ScreenCraft. “But the more I got sort of into the location and into her character and all that with Saoirse [Ronan] in mind, I thought, OK maybe there is an adaptation. But it would need to be quite radical, you know, in terms of it needs to keep the nerdiness of her character alive. And we have to embrace the fact that this is a woman going into isolation spending two winters by herself on a tiny remote island in a tiny cottage,” she adds. After spending nearly three months with the book, annotating each section, and breaking down the beats, Fingscheidt was able to find a way to adapt the unadaptable. Her trick was to lean into the extremes of the characters , and have […]
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Julie Gilbert Today, we delve into the enduring relevance of the themes explored by Pulitzer Prize -winning author Edna Ferber
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