“Unveiling Secrets: Jon Gunn Reveals the Hidden Truths Behind Storytelling in SYS Podcast Episode 532!”
Ashley
Gotcha. So, this originally was a book by Scott Lorette and Susie Forre. Were they the pair? Are they the actual parents of Austin?
Jon Gunn
Scott is, Susie co-wrote with Scott, his wife is Teresa. So it was like a really charming book that was sort of very anecdotal about like 20 years of their life experience, meeting, having this child, raising this child and their family and all the adventures of their family. And so I got it put on my desk by Peter Faccinelli who was one of our producers and who is in the film. He’s one of the actors in the film. He just read the book, met the family, loved it so much, brought it to us with tons of passion and said, we have to make this. And I read it at just the perfect time in my life. We were in quarantine and COVID had just hit. I was looking for another project to write. And this was a story that I found so inspiring and so much about gratitude that I really wanted to share that at that time with the world. And we already had a project with Zach Levi lined up, American Underdog. So, I sent him the script, he read it and was just like in instantly. And so, we went to Oklahoma in quarantine still and shot American Underdog and Unbreakable Boy back-to-back with Zach in Oklahoma.
