Of course, it's possible that the trailers are misdirecting the audience. It could be a similar situation to Finding Neverland where while it was always clear that Neverland didn't exist, you would see it and other fantasy sequences as if they were real. It's possible the trailers are focusing on that to rope in more viewers, which will leave them with a nasty surprise come the ending.
I can't imagine Patterson allowing them to do too much damage to the book. She wrote it based on something that happened to her son - his best friend (a girl) was struck by lightning and died when he was eight or nine or something. Considering how personal it was, I can't imagine that she would let them bastardize it too badly.
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on 2007-01-26 05:02 pm (UTC)Of course, it's possible that the trailers are misdirecting the audience. It could be a similar situation to Finding Neverland where while it was always clear that Neverland didn't exist, you would see it and other fantasy sequences as if they were real. It's possible the trailers are focusing on that to rope in more viewers, which will leave them with a nasty surprise come the ending.
I can't imagine Patterson allowing them to do too much damage to the book. She wrote it based on something that happened to her son - his best friend (a girl) was struck by lightning and died when he was eight or nine or something. Considering how personal it was, I can't imagine that she would let them bastardize it too badly.