Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race. Oscar-winning screenwriter William Monahan (The…
a wave of apprehension struck him, he said, “because it’s a very popular book – a lot of people, it’s their favorite book. And I found that out after I said yes, so you get a little nervous about it.”
The screenwriter recognized the qualities that struck chords with so many readers. “The lost father. The particular loneliness of being an only child of a single mom. The search for surrogates. The terror of being at an Ivy League college — any college, really — and feeling that you don’t belong, academically or socially or both,” Monahan said.
Monahan also found a personal connection to the material. “In the 1970s a door is supposedly open for women, but then when they went through it, there wasn’t really anything on the other side,” he explained at a recent post-screening Q&A. “My own mother was one of the one of the people who went through that door and then nothing would come together…And so that really resonated with me.”
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