“That's the story that I felt I could write, and write honestly with all the emotion that I experienced at the time years ago when it actually happened.”ĭirector Haley says that after meeting with “many, many mental health professionals about the script,” certain aspects of the book were tweaked for the screen – including the fact that Finch no longer explicitly says that he's suicidal – in an effort to responsibly tell a story about someone who shows signs of inner conflict before he disappears. “I didn't want it to end this way, but I always knew, writing it, that was the only ending I could have,” says Niven, who has been candid about the fact that the book version of Finch was inspired by a man she knew and lost in her 20s.
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