But when one of his emails falls into the wrong hands, Simon's secret is at risk of going public. In Love, Simon sixteen-year-old and not openly gay Simon Spier starts a secret email flirtation with another closeted classmate. And the character of Simon was such a winning, lovable, kind of embraceable character that we thought it was worth developing." ![]() And played it against this great, mysterious, evolving romance. And so that was the thing with the book: we all read it and said, -Oh my God, nobody's done this.' Nobody's just unabashedly openly made a movie about a kid that's going through the process that every gay individual goes through of figuring out their identity and when they should come out. And fundamentally, we'd never seen a high school romantic comedy with a gay teenage lead. 'Every time, you're trying to find something new and different and fresh that feels like it hasn't been done before. ![]() 'We produce a lot of movies in the young adult space," says Wyck Godfrey. Having produced the phenomenally successful Twilight series and the adaptations of The Fault in Our Stars and The Longest Ride, they saw the big screen potential of Becky Albertalli's story. Producer Wyck Godfrey, and Marty Bowen, his partner at Temple Hill Entertainment, have become adept at recognizing literature that is ideal for screen adaptation. As a psychologist, I'm painstakingly careful not to borrow my clients' stories for my fiction – but in a general sense, I'm very much inspired by all the teenagers I've been lucky enough to know and work with." I've worked a lot with kids who identify as LGBTQ or gender nonconforming, and they are unquestionably some of the bravest people I've ever met. I had this image of a messy-haired, gay kid in a hoodie, and that turned out to be Simon. I don't know where my idea for the plot came from, but the characters had been kicking around in my head for some time. I had always wanted to write a book, and decided I would give it a try. 'I was the mother of a one-year-old, now four-year-old. Becky Albertalli never imagined that her book would be published let alone become an award-winning bestseller and now a major motion picture: 'I was a psychologist when I wrote the book," she says. Morris Award for Best Young Adult Debut of the Year and was included in the National Book Award Longlist. Published in January 2012, the book won the William C. Love, Simon was adapted from Becky Albertalli's young adult novel Simon vs The Homo Sapien's Agenda. Directed by Greg Berlanti (Everwood, The Flash, Riverdale), with a screenplay by Elizabeth Berger & Isaac Aptaker, and based on Becky Albertalli's acclaimed novel, Love, Simon is a funny and heartfelt coming-of-age story about the thrilling ride of finding yourself and falling in love. ![]() Resolving both issues proves hilarious, terrifying and life-changing. But for seventeen-year old Simon Spier it's a little more complicated: he's yet to tell his family or friends he's gay and he doesn't actually know the identity of the anonymous classmate he's fallen for online. Synopsis: Everyone deserves a great love story. Cast: Jennifer Garner, Josh Duhamel, Nick Robinson, Tony Hale, Logan Miller, Alexandra Shipp, Talitha Bateman
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