“Unveiling Secrets: Jon Gunn Reveals the Hidden Truths Behind Storytelling in SYS Podcast Episode 532!”
Ashley
Mm hmm. Perfect, perfect. So let’s dig into your latest film, The Unbreakable Boy. Maybe to start out, you can just give us a quick logline or pitch. What is this film all about?
Jon Gunn
The Unbreakable Boy is a story about Scott Loret and his wife Teresa, who met each other and got pregnant on their fourth date and realized, OK, we’re going to raise this child. We’re going to raise this child together. But they were unprepared. They didn’t know each other that well. And then they had a child named Austin who had both brittle bone disease and autism, which is a very rare combination. It made him like one in a billion kid. And so, it’s really the sort of charms and struggles of this young couple learning to raise a child with autism and brittle bone disease and learning along the way about themselves, about each other. And this child, Austin, has this incredible spirit and this charming worldview. And so he narrates the story of his parents. And we get to watch the story of Scott and Teresa through the eyes of this 13-year-old child with autism.
