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Where did you see anything in that post that said the family had final approval?

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In Reply to: RE: The family had final approval? That's the death of art, then, isn't it? posted by tinear on October 12, 2007 at 05:05:29

It said JK worked closely (and slowly) with them on the book - to gain their trust and have them open up - and that they initially decided not to have the movie made and then 10 years later, when it was going to made by someone other than Penn, they decided to have it made.

The reason they initally rejected the film was because the mother had a dream in which the son said he didn't want it made. She told Sean Penn about it and he said... to paraphrase... "If I didn't respect dreams I wouldn't be making movies."

Sounds like you're in danger of letting those couple of paragraphs in the New Yorker taint your perception of this film.

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