
My take on it was, it's in the fashion of Brothers Grimm. "Do you like Shawshank Redemption, do you like Stand By Me, do you like Green Mile, do you like a ton of other Stephen King?. "More than anything, it's about an odd relationship between a billionaire in his 80s and a and the bonds of friendship, and how far will you go for a friend?" Hancock confessed. While it might be inspired by King's works, the director also detailed how the story falls more in line with the author's more touching works than his unsettling stories. And so prop said, 'Do you have any?' And he goes, 'I got boxes of it.'" He had it all at his house there, which was only like 45 minutes away. "And he actually is from Connecticut where we shot. And he was one of those guys that would jailbreak phones and sell them on eBay," the director explained.

Given that the film takes place in the 2000s, this presented another unexpected challenge, which was the era-appropriate production design. You go, 'Oh, my God, Stephen King's reading my script. He added, "You finish a script and you realize you've got to send it to Stephen, and you're going to get a thumbs up or a thumbs down.

Hancock explained of the experience to Netflix, "Because it's a novella and it's only 80-something pages, to jump in and grab onto thematically what I think he's trying to say and activate some of it into scenes that aren't necessarily all in the novella." Harrigan sadly passes away, Craig discovers that not everything is dead and gone and strangely finds himself able to communicate with his friend from the grave through the iPhone in this supernatural coming-of-age story that shows that certain connections are never lost." Harrigan, an older, reclusive billionaire (Donald Sutherland), the two begin to form an unlikely bond over their love of books and reading. The film is described, "When Craig, a young boy living in a small town (Jaeden Martell) befriends Mr.
