There’s a good chance you’ve seen a film by John Lee Hancock. The veteran writer/director has been behind some of the most critically acclaimed studio movies of the last three decades. He wrote the Clint Eastwood movies A Perfect World in 1993 and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in 1997.
John Lee Hancock: Well, I’m a big Stephen King fan, but I also knew there were different kinds of arenas that Stephen operates in that interested me. One of them is the novella. Rob Reiner took King’s story The Body and turned it into the movie Stand By Me, which isn’t a horror movie. I think whenever you’ve got a novella that’s 80-something pages, you know you’re going to have to flesh it out a little bit to turn it into a movie, which is a different medium. That said, I think everything was there in the text. It was just about embracing what Stephen had written.
In the novella, Mr. Harrigan is very kind to Craig and looks out for him. I wanted to lean in even more to this relationship between two wounded people who carry sorrow around with them. And even though they don’t talk about it, it’s kind of the link from the start between a young boy and a man in his 80s. They have something meaningful in common with one another.
The film version of Mr. Harrigan’s Phone emphasizes the theme of technology negatively impacting our lives. Was that intentional on your part to pay attention to that theme or was that also there in the Stephen King story?
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