I feel very lucky to have our collaborators.
So by the time it came to adapting it, I was like, ‘Please God! Other people, come on in! Let’s get in the water.’ I think that is the only attitude if you’re making a TV show. Some of the things I thought I could never let go, like the original ending I had for the first four years I was working on it - I was holding onto that ending so tight you would think my life depended on it.
All along I was killing my darlings, for years and years. “What defines this novel for me is as much what I threw out as what I kept. “The novel had so many iterations,” she explains. SEE ‘The Big Door Prize’: Critics call Apple TV+ series ‘one of the best comedy debuts in years’įor Dave, it was a relief to allow other writers to join the fold while creating this series. “I literally would ask myself on a regular basis, ‘What would John do?’ With that sort of compass, in terms of how to make a television show, and with the real compass next to me (Dave), it was smoother than I thought it would have been.” “I was hired into this industry by John Wells, who gave me my break writing for ‘The West Wing,'” Singer continues. There’s just so much story, and moreover, there’s an ability to expand a little bit if you do it as a limited.” We realized cramming this into a movie was going to be really challenging. “Hello Sunshine ( Reese Witherspoon‘s production company) came to us and they essentially said, ‘No, we think this is a six-to-seven episode limited.’ And Laura and I sat down one night right after we heard that.and we sort of walked through the book. Singer, who won an Academy Award for his “Spotlight” original screenplay in 2016, had originally planned to adapt his wife’s book into a film. SEE Jennifer Garner looks for answers in Apple’s ‘The Last Thing He Told Me’ trailer The seven-episode series begins streaming April 14 on Apple TV+. “The Last Thing He Told Me” stars Emmy nominee Jennifer Garner as a woman who forms an unexpected relationship with her 16-year-old stepdaughter ( Angourie Rice) while searching for the truth about why her husband ( Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) has mysteriously disappeared. We wanted to honor that story in the series.” Watch our interview with Dave and Singer above. I was telling a love story of Hannah and her new stepdaughter. “What I realized several years into the writing…was I was telling a different kind of love story. “When I started writing the book I thought I was writing one kind of love story - a love story between Hannah and her husband who goes missing,” says Laura Dave, the best-selling author of “ The Last Thing He Told Me,” which she has adapted into an Apple TV+ series with her husband, Oscar winner Josh Singer.
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