Was Alice Sebold involved in any way during the scriptwriting or production of the film?
“Not really. She wasn’t involved in the creation of the movie, although we have certainly shared our thoughts and ideas with her at times. We met with Alice before we even started, just so she could have a sense of who was doing this film. Then when we wrote the script we sent her a copy to and met up in Los Angeles to get her notes and thoughts, which was very helpful. She wasn’t concerned at all about the changes that we made, instead it was about her looking at our script and saying ‘Well I think you have an opportunity to do this or that, and do you know if you included that scene you could do this’. “You get to a point when you’ve written something or made a film that you really do value people’s input. Especially people you can trust, mostly because you reach a point where you can’t see the woods for the trees.” And has Alice seen any of the footage? “Alice has seen a version of the film, not the totally finished version, but an early cut that we did and she seemed to be happy an
