Inside the Untold Journey of Creating a Hit Movie Far from Hollywood Lights with Adam Burke and Jud Nichols
Adam Burke
Yeah, we had actually, I’d written a different screenplay that we were moving forward on creating and we just kept hitting these walls with, and you talk a lot about this on your podcast, you’ve got a right to your production budget, you know, and so we knew we needed something more contained. And that’s when Judd said, well, you know, we need to have fewer locations, fewer cast and whatever else we can do to keep the budget realistic. And so when he said, you know, let’s do a couple’s retreat center, I wasn’t sure that that was like exactly what the type of film that I wanted to make. But then as you start falling in love with the characters and you start falling in love with the themes and the subtext, it just started to come alive. And the theme to it is, as Judd said, was something that landed for me in prison. There was a woman that would come visit me and she was in an abusive relationship. And it was something that was really, it was killing her, you know, is eating her up. It was very detrimental to her daughter and she couldn’t get out of it. She just, she wasn’t able to change, even though she knew this was something that was really damaging to her and the person that she loved the most, her daughter, eventually she was able to make that jump and to make, you know, that huge life choice to leave this person and to start a new life and to start over at a later age. And she now was thriving and she has, you know, this beautiful life. You know, I think that that’s a common theme that a lot of people can relate to, especially, you know, in midlife when you’re forced with this idea that, hey, maybe this isn’t the job or maybe this isn’t the relationship or maybe this isn’t the place geographically that I should be, but it’s just so easy to not change and to think it’ll just get better, you know, and oftentimes it doesn’t. And so that’s kind of the underlying subtext or theme to this film is the characters that decide to make that change, that decide to do the hard thing are the ones that come out the other side.
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