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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 5: Contemporary Rather Than a Retrospective StoryDi Novi took the script straight to director Adam Shankman, who recently made his directorial debut with the romantic comedy "The Wedding Planner" and is one of the entertainment industry's leading dance and comedy choreographers with an extensive list of well-known comedies, dramas, thrillers and animated films to his credit.
"I had worked with Adam as a choreographer and had seen his film, `The Wedding Planner,'" she says. "I felt he had the right spirit. He has a really big heart and I knew that he could bring the emotion to the screen in a young, fresh way."
Before making his decision to take on the project, Shankman read both the script and the book. "Beyond not being able to put it down because the writing and the central story is so beautiful," he recalls, "I connected to the love, the faith and the theme of being non-judgmental. You'd have to have a heart of stone not to be moved by this story. I felt that I had something to say about those themes."
"He really got it," says Lowry of Shankman's honest reaction to the material. "He got the characters immediately, he understood the story from their point of view and he came into our first meeting knowing exactly what he wanted to do. He had obviously done his homework and came in with a lot of enthusiasm and a lot of good ideas."
One of those ideas, which the producers had already discussed, was to lift the story into the 90s rather than the 1950s, which was its original setting in the novel. Although the events and characters are really timeless, Shankman wanted to present it as a "contemporary rather than a retrospective story." Also, since music is so much a part of the lives of young people and gives expression to feelings they cannot always articulate, he wanted "A Walk to Remember" to include an evocative soundtrack and felt that "audiences would be better able to relate to the music of the 90s."
"He brought a modern edge to the story, which I knew he would," says Di Novi of Shankman's touch. "He made the teenagers totally contemporary and believable and brought in the element of their own music to underscore the action in a very dramatic and subtle way. The music is cool, everyone looks cool -- yet he's dealing faithfully with the emotional and serious elements of the story at the same time."
The story is set in Beaufort, North Carolina, a small, quiet town located on the coast. For practical reasons, availability of production facilities and crews, it was filmed at several locations in and around Wilmington, North Carolina, that evoke the same timeless quality that Nicholas Sparks found so inspirational in Beaufort.
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