The wait is over, as \u201cLove, Rosie\u201d opensed up in cinemas last January 8 in local (Phils.) cinemas where two of today\u2019s most loved young actors Lily Collins and Sam Claflin star as Rosie and Alex who have been best friends since they were five. When it comes to love, life and making the right choices, these two are their own worst enemies.\u00a0 But one awkward turn at 18, one missed opportunity…and life sends them hurling in different directions. Could they be the one true love for each other after all?<\/p>\n
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Based on Cecelia Ahern\u2019s bestselling novel \u201cWhere Rainbows End\u201d, LOVE, ROSIE is a sassy, heart-warming, and utterly modern comedy-of-errors tale posing the ultimate question: Do we really only get one shot at true love?\u00a0 \u201cHow do you adapt a book that\u2019s all texts and emails,\u201d says producer Simon Brooks of one of the<\/p>\n
project\u2019s biggest challenges \u2013 the novel\u2019s epistolary structure, composed around the emails, letters and text messages which Alex and Rosie exchange. \u201cHow do you make that into a movie?\u201d<\/p>\n
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In director Christian Ditter\u2019s new film Love, Rosie, Lily Collins and Sam Claflin\u00a0 star as Rosie and Alex, childhood friends seemingly destined to be together, yet a couple which fate itself seems determined to keep apart. The film paints a rich and textured canvas of a complicated yet lifelong bond between Rosie and Alex, beginning in their childhood, spanning a trans-Atlantic separation, and enduring ups and downs of romantic liaisons with everyone but each other resulting in some bittersweet consequences.<\/p>\n
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To adapt Ahern\u2019s novel to the screen, Kulzer and Brooks turned to the British screenwriter Juliette Towhidi, whose credits include the 2003 award-winning hit comedy, Calendar Girls, with Helen Mirren and Julie Walters.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was like a detective,\u201d also says producer RobertKulzer of Towhidi\u2019s process of adapting Ahern\u2019s unconventional novel. \u201cShe was extracting plot and story points, creating her own world around these episodes that Cecilia had created in her novel.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt was clear to everyone that how Cecilia had written \u2018Where Rainbows End\u2019 wouldn\u2019t translate verbatim to the screen,\u201d explains Towhidi, who also reset the story in England. \u201cWhat the filmmakers wanted me to do was to keep the spirit of what Cecilia had written.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cCecelia has a delightful love of her characters which makes it easy to bring them to life, and I wanted Rosie and Alex\u2019s relationship to be real,\u201d Towhidi continues.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIndeed, I loved writing for all the characters, even the minor ones. You want to give them all killer lines so that every appearance on screen counts, no matter how small the role.\u201d \u201cI think what Juliette did with the book is fantastic,\u201d says Ahern, who phoned the filmmakers directly to congratulate them once she\u2019d read the final draft of<\/p>\n
Towhidi\u2019s screenplay. \u201cShe brought out the humor \u2013 it was both funny and edgy \u2013 and it also had a lot of heart,\u201d says Ahern. \u201cWhat was important to me was that the essence of the novel was brought out in the film and I was really proud of the script Juliette had delivered.\u201d<\/p>\n
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From Pioneer Films, \u201cLove, Rosie\u201d opens January 8 in cinemas nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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