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A Walk to Remember Full Production Notes "It all comes down to who's by your side."
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 Chapter 4: Universal Theme of Joy Through Found LoveLike his other best known stories, most notably the poignantly romantic Message in a Bottle, that became a hit motion picture in 1999, A Walk to Remember was originally inspired by author Nicholas Sparks' own family. "It's a very personal story," says Sparks. "As writers do, I drew from events in my life to bring something original to the reader. The character Jamie Sullivan is modeled after my sister, who was a great, great person. It's my way of letting the world get to know who my sister was."
The story first came to producer Hunt Lowry's attention in the form of a screenplay by Karen Janszen, which faithfully conveyed the power and spirit of the Sparks novel and made an indelible impression on Lowry.
"When Courtenay Valenti [Senior Vice President, Theatrical Production, Warner Bros. Pictures] called me and said that this script had come in with Denise Di Novi -- whom I've known for a long time -- attached to produce, I agreed to read it. Courtenay didn't send it, she walked it from her office all the way across the lot to our office," Lowry says, recalling the production executive's enthusiasm for the story. "I read it all the way through and immediately called my partner, E.K. Gaylord II, and said `we have our first movie.' On the way home, I stopped and bought the book to read that night.
"E.K. called the next day and wholeheartedly agreed, as did everyone else in our office who had read the script," Lowry continues. "It was the first project we loved enough to produce under our newly formed Pandora division of Gaylord Films."
Producer Denise Di Novi's passion for the story began from the book itself. "I was just bowled over by this book," she says. "It is such a beautiful, powerful and meaningful story. By the end, I was so moved, I was crying my head off just like everybody else who has read it. When I developed the script with Karen Janszen, it brought that experience right back to me, vividly. I was thrilled when people felt the screenplay had captured the power of the book."
Executive producer Bill Johnson agrees. "`A Walk to Remember' taps into the emotions that we so often try to keep tucked deep inside ourselves," he offers. "It speaks to the universal theme of joy through found love."
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