“Discover the Bold Vision Behind ‘The Outrun’—Can a Story Thought Unadaptable Find New Life on Screen?”
After spending nearly three months with the book, annotating each section, and breaking down the beats, Fingscheidt was able to find a way to adapt the unadaptable. Her trick was to lean into the extremes of the characters, and have those extremes translate visually and through all of Rona’s actions.
“There is a line in the book which says, ‘The edge is my home. The edge is where I come from.’ … How is she shaped by those extremes, you know?” Fingscheidt notes. “That was something that was definitely important that no matter what she does there is a certain level of extremity to it. Like she doesn’t do things 50%, she goes full-on. … I think that is part of Amy’s character and that is something that we really wanted to translate visually.”
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