Director Reveals Why He Changed The Story For The Movie

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There were a few. I did the script, and I shot a scene between Charlie and his best friend Michael, and this young actor named Owen Campbell did a wonderful job as Michael. I loved the scene. But once I cut it into the movie I realized that movies are so much more literal than books. Books you have room, you can have two ghosts in a book, you can't have two ghosts in a movie. I didn't know that going in.