"I guess the highest praise I can give to both Random House and Focus is that their money was there and they weren’t,” “Reservation Road" helmer Terry George said prior to the Gotham premiere on Thursday night. “Road,” an adaptation of the John Burnham Schwartz novel, is the first project under Focus' partnership with Random House.
“It never occurred to me that my publisher would be an integral part of making a movie out of one of my novels,” Burnham Schwartz said about the film, which stars Jennifer Connelly and Joaquin Phoenix. “It’s kind of like having your big, brawny cousin come in and support you in every way.”
Before heading over to the after-party at Brasserie Ruhlmann, Burnham Schwartz said ever since he saw the first cut of the film, he realized that he is now part of “a weird, freakishly small clubhouse of people who have written novels and then screenplays of their novels and have gone on to see those books and screenplays made into a film they not only love but believe in.” (A. Morfoot)
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