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The Australian author of The Rosie Project is not too dissapointed that Jennifer Lawrence has pulled out of the film adaptation, saying there was a danger she would have become the focus of the film.
"I'm not nearly as disappointed as I might be," Graeme Simsion has told the ABC.
Both Lawrence and director Richard Linklater have pulled out of the project.
"I think the real character of the book is Don, despite the title.
"Losing Jennifer Lawrence is a negative in losing such a huge and talented person but the danger was always that she would become the focus of the movie," he told the ABC's 702 program on Thursday.
The Rosie Project was published as a novel in 2013 and is a romantic comedy about an Australian genetics professor, Don Tillman, who has aspergers and struggles to have serious relationships with women.
Simsion wrote it originally as a film script, but didn't sell it to Hollywood until after the novel became an international bestseller.
He said there was a Hollywood tradition for movies about people outside the norm, such as Rain Man, that producers try to cast a "normal person" and the narrative is "all about their growth".
"I would have hated the movie to turn into Jennifer Lawrence's growth through meeting this weird guy Don," Simsion said.
"There's a real danger there. I think we saw it with Silver Linings Playbook where the father character, Robert De Niro, in the film, is Robert De Niro - a very big role, and the story changes."
Simsion said Linklater as director was a strange choice, and one which had been heavily influenced by Lawrence.
"Richard Linklater was really there because Jennifer Lawrence wanted him as director.
"The two of these things were very tightly linked," he said.
"I wrote the script for the Rosie Project for the movie and it's a very tightly paced Hollywood romantic comedy in structure and that is not Richard Linklater's normal style."
Simsion hopes the actor cast as Don is locked in before Rosie and that producers choose someone unexpected.
"Sony, to their credit, have been looking at casting somebody against type, so it'd be really exciting to see somebody we wouldn't imagine as Don, like Leonardo DiCaprio for example."
Simsion also said he was in no doubt that he would be played by an American.
Despite the recent setbacks, Simsion remains upbeat about his work eventually becoming a film.
"You don't pin your hops to anything in Hollywood," he said.
"The positive is it has attracted some very good, very positive people to it. I think it'll find a team.
"There's no point losing sleep over stuff you can't control.
"How can you complain about the fact that a couple of stars have pulled out of your Hollywood movie?"
SOURCE: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-3275262/JLaw-danger-Rosie-Project-author.html
The Australian author of The Rosie Project is not too dissapointed that Jennifer Lawrence has pulled out of the film adaptation, saying there was a danger she would have become the focus of the film.
"I'm not nearly as disappointed as I might be," Graeme Simsion has told the ABC.
Both Lawrence and director Richard Linklater have pulled out of the project.
"I think the real character of the book is Don, despite the title.
"Losing Jennifer Lawrence is a negative in losing such a huge and talented person but the danger was always that she would become the focus of the movie," he told the ABC's 702 program on Thursday.
The Rosie Project was published as a novel in 2013 and is a romantic comedy about an Australian genetics professor, Don Tillman, who has aspergers and struggles to have serious relationships with women.
Simsion wrote it originally as a film script, but didn't sell it to Hollywood until after the novel became an international bestseller.
He said there was a Hollywood tradition for movies about people outside the norm, such as Rain Man, that producers try to cast a "normal person" and the narrative is "all about their growth".
"I would have hated the movie to turn into Jennifer Lawrence's growth through meeting this weird guy Don," Simsion said.
"There's a real danger there. I think we saw it with Silver Linings Playbook where the father character, Robert De Niro, in the film, is Robert De Niro - a very big role, and the story changes."
Simsion said Linklater as director was a strange choice, and one which had been heavily influenced by Lawrence.
"Richard Linklater was really there because Jennifer Lawrence wanted him as director.
"The two of these things were very tightly linked," he said.
"I wrote the script for the Rosie Project for the movie and it's a very tightly paced Hollywood romantic comedy in structure and that is not Richard Linklater's normal style."
Simsion hopes the actor cast as Don is locked in before Rosie and that producers choose someone unexpected.
"Sony, to their credit, have been looking at casting somebody against type, so it'd be really exciting to see somebody we wouldn't imagine as Don, like Leonardo DiCaprio for example."
Simsion also said he was in no doubt that he would be played by an American.
Despite the recent setbacks, Simsion remains upbeat about his work eventually becoming a film.
"You don't pin your hops to anything in Hollywood," he said.
"The positive is it has attracted some very good, very positive people to it. I think it'll find a team.
"There's no point losing sleep over stuff you can't control.
"How can you complain about the fact that a couple of stars have pulled out of your Hollywood movie?"
SOURCE: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-3275262/JLaw-danger-Rosie-Project-author.html
