“Unveiling Secrets: Jon Gunn Reveals the Hidden Truths Behind Storytelling in SYS Podcast Episode 532!”
Jon Gunn
That’s always the challenge with true stories, but I find in almost all the circumstances where I’ve done adaptations of real-life stories that I just communicate with the real people a lot. And I say, like, what are you comfortable with? What do you want to share? And let’s find a version of the story that you’re going to be proud of to share with the world, but that’s still compelling and entertaining for an audience. And so they were, in this case, the Loret family were very sort of open and unflinching and being willing to share their struggles. Scott Loret wrote the book to share all of these struggles. He goes on, he does speaking tours and shares these struggles with people and how he recovered from them and how his family healed them. So, because they knew that the brokenness was an important part of their journey and redemption, they were very open. And then it was just about choosing the right moments and then trying to reflect what I always find is like doing an adaptation, you want to reflect the essence of the truth, the truth of the story. So, you know, the dates might be different or certain characters might be consolidated. But if you squint at it, it’s exactly the experience of what they want to share. And, you know, we talk often with true stories about how this isn’t going to be a photograph of their life, it’s going to be a painting of their life, you know, it’s an interpretation of it. And the important thing is to get the spirit of it and the heart of it right. And I think they feel so deeply like this reflects their true journey. They love this movie, we’ve all become family, and I don’t think they can be happier with what we’ve got.
