Meg Ryan and Nora Ephron once planned to make a movie about red hawks in Central Park

with over seven years of experience in the entertainment industry. An award-winning journalist, she's written for Turner Classic Movies,, and more. She's worked at EW for six years covering film, TV, theater, music, and books. The author of EW's quarterly romance review column, "Hot Stuff," Maureen holds Master's degrees from both the University of Southern California and the University of Oxford. Her debut novel,, her second directorial effort.

"At one point we talked about a script, about something that happened in Central Park with the red hawks," Ryan tells EW. "We were dancing around that for a minute. These hawks end up on Fifth Avenue and the facade of this very tony building."of the story,"The residents loved these hawks until the hawks started eating pigeons and squirrels and dropping them on people below."of the bird who first began roosting on the building in the early 1990s.

"She had a draft of that and then we were going to work on that," Ryan explains. "I was going to try to direct; it was a long time ago." That plan never came to fruition, but Ryan did get behind the camera in 2015 for, from the quirky characters who feel both highly specific and utterly real, to the note of melancholy threaded throughout the story.

"I'm just grateful to her," Ryan says. "I have so many blessings in my life that I could trace back to her. We fell in love with the same genre. We were in love with it in the same way." "One of the main things for Nora was magical reality," Ryan says of the connections between her movie and Ephron's films. "Her was all around destiny and kismet and the idea of larger forces at work. In this movie, it's the airport. It's this environment that is irritating them and brokering their current interaction. That is her element. If rom-coms could secretly speak to the moment, she felt they were successful.

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