Unveiling Jeffrey Lieber: The Untold Secrets Behind His Masterful Storytelling
Jeff: It had been hanging around for a while, owned by Jane Startz. She’s a great producer who had been trying to get that project going. It’s a book adaptation. A wonderful book, a book I had read in middle school or grade school. I forget what it was. And it was a trap. The reason nobody would sort of move it forward was it felt genteel to people, right? It was a young female lead. It was a period piece. It was about growing up and all this sort of stuff.
And so, again, I credit it to having an acting background. One of the things I do fairly well is I pitch, and I was able to go in to them and say, “Wipe your brains clean and don’t think of it in terms of the book it is. Just think of it as a kidnapping meets a hostage situation meets a mystery.” And I was able to reframe what the book was in a way that they were finally willing to go forward with the project.
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