The Last Song
The Last Song
The Last Song: Film Tie-In by Nicholas Sparks‘
The Last Song ‘ movie will release on 1 April 2010 and stars Miley Cyrus. It is both a coming of age story and a love story . . .
Nicholas Sparks’ talks about the process of writing the screenplay and novel on his website www. nicholassparks.com: ‘I finished the first draft of the screenplay in December, and did the first rewrite later that month. In January, once the director was hired, I did another rewrite. Both rewrites took about a day or two – I didn’t find them difficult, and with that, my role as a screenwriter was largely concluded.
By then, of course, I’d started on the novel. A lot of things were more difficult in fact, and no character more so than Ronnie. Ronnie, at the beginning of the novel (and film) is angry, moody and sometimes rude – and yet, I had to make her likable at exactly the same time. No easy task there. At the same time (and unlike the film), I knew I had to develop Steve (Ronnie’s father) on a much deeper level.
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