Is “If You Saved the World” based on a book?
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Finally, Jesse Eisenberg’s feature directorial debut comes in the form of If I Could Save the World. A coming-of-age drama starring award-winning actors Julianne Moore and Finn Wolfhardt follows a mother and her teenage son who can’t connect and instead try to find connections with other people. I am following the situation.
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Finn Wolfhard as Ziggy Katz in “If I Could Save the World”
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So is “If I Could Save the World” based on a book?
Fans of the film will be happy to know that If I Could Save the World was based on a book.
The film, which currently holds an approval rating of 64% on Rotten Tomatoes, is based on writer-director Jesse Eisenberg’s 2020 audio drama of the same name. Learn more about the original story.
The film is based on the eponymous Audible Original.
The audiobook of the same name, which is an Audible Original, was published on August 4, 2020. The five-hour drama will “grow up, have kids, and fit in,” while switching time frames around three characters, according to the official synopsis.
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This audiobook tells the story of three people trying to understand each other and themselves. Rachel (Caitlin Dever), a new college student trying to find her place in Nathan’s world before marrying him. Ziggy (Finn Wolfhard) is his teenage son who wants to know where he came from and where he’s going.
Received the 2021 Audience Award “Original Work”.
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Jesse Eisenberg talked about the process of adapting his audiobook.
Ahead of the film’s theatrical release, Jesse Eisenberg spoke with Slant Magazine to dig into how he handled the “adaptation job.” And it started as three two-hour monologues from the characters in the film.”
“After I finished reading the audiobook, I was thinking of writing something new and realized I hadn’t met the teenage boy’s mother yet,” Jesse told the outlet. “I thought it was so wonderful to see this clash of values: a woman who has dedicated her life to social justice and a son who doesn’t care about anything but his world.”
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Writer-director Jesse Eisenberg and Finn Wolfhard attend a screening of “If I Could Save the World” in New York.
When asked how he intertwined Evelyn and Ziggy’s stories in the script, Jesse replied, “They really have parallel stories. try to replace each other within
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“Their stories naturally mirror each other. But the best thing about adapting what I’ve already written is that the voices are in my head,” he said. “When I’m in something, my main concern is how to make this character feel like something I could do offscreen. It feels like there’s an inner life of a person… their tics, their anger, their anger, their hopes, all of that.”
Jesse said, “Now that I’ve written so much from their point of view, I can write 100 more scenes of them talking to each other as freely flowing as they are seen in the film.” felt.
When You Finish Saving the World is now showing in select theaters.