![]() ![]() ![]() … After spending a year writing the screenplay, and another year trying to raise money for the movie, everything seems to be on hold indefinitely.” 16, 2010, Miller posted on his website the sad news that, “The book that swept the country will not sweep theaters. Once you have an ending, everything comes alive easier and I just thought that was a great scene and would be a great ending.”īut getting to that ending required its own story, one with its share of suspense for everyone wanting to see the movie made. ![]() And if not answered, at least bring some kind of closure and ending to the rest of it. “We worked backwards from the confession booth scene and crafted the story so that scene would answer the questions posed by the rest of the movie. ![]() “There are a lot of great scenes within the book that I thought would translate well, but the confession booth scene was the one where I was like, ‘I gotta make a movie, and I gotta end it with this scene,’” Taylor recalls, as we gather with him, Miller and lead actor Marshall Allman around a table in Austin, Texas, during SXSW, where the film premiered. But the story of how the book became a movie. Not even the story in the new movie by musician-turned-director Steve Taylor. Not the story in the best-selling book by Donald Miller-a quasi-memoir with the subtitle “Non-Religious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality” that Paste named one of the 20 Best Books of the Decade. The story of Blue Like Jazz began in a confessional. ![]()
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