I’ve known Sam for a long time and she is somebody I admire as an artist, a director and a human she always stays true to her vision. So she said: ‘Can Aaron and I make it into a movie?’. She asked if I was doing anything with A Million Little Pieces. JF: “As if by some perfect synchronicity, around mid-2016, I got an email from Sam followed by a phone call. Anyway, a few years ago the rights came back to me and, although I got enquiries about adapting the book all the time, I decided that I just didn’t need this film to be made.” What made you change your mind? The movie business is tricky: you get an actor or director and their schedule changes you have funding and then the company has two films in a row that don't work and it falls apart. I had sold the rights to the book, and there had been a few attempts at making the film that didn’t work out for whatever reason. James Frey (JF): “For me it was always going to be about who was making the movie adaptation and the spirit with which they were approaching it.
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