We chats with MrHarrigansPhone writer-director John Lee Hancock about collaborating with Stephen King and expanding his novella into a feature film:
Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, one of four short stories from Stephen King's novella collection, If it Bleeds, has been adapted into a feature film for Netflix. The movie is now available to stream and puts a paranormal twist on the friendship between a fifteen-year-old boy and an eighty-year-old billionaire.
Screen Rant chats with writer-director John Lee Hancock about collaborating with Stephen King and expanding his novella into a feature film. But it was more than anything, the challenge of trying to adapt it, I think. I was drawn to the themes, immediately. The kind of paranormal coming of age, the relationship between an eighty-year-old and a fifteen-year-old and how they're best friends, the shadow of technology and everything that's good and bad about that as it influences our lives, even in small towns in Maine.
And so you might want to look at that and go, "Is there a way to activate this? To have Craig actually get on his bike and go to the trailer park to try to find Dusty Bilodeau?" So you're expanding it and activating it in a way. It works beautifully on the page, you know, in the novella, but just a way to activate it for a movie. So it's leaning into those opportunities to take what he's written and activate it.
We would be looking at locations and I could send him something and go, "Which one of these two looks like Howie's Market? Because you made up the name, Howie's Market, and you had something in your mind's eye when you wrote it. Which one of these?" And he would say, "I think the one on the left with the red. I think that feels more like what I was thinking." Okay, great. We got Stephen's approval on this location.
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