Stewart O'Nan meets his director

Hollywood’s crazy ways: Stewart O’Nan, who has written 11 novels, including the much praised 2007 Night at the Lobster, has finally seen one of his books brought to the screen.  Snow Angels, a dark drama starring Kate Beckinsale and Sam Rockwell, opens in March.  (Click here to see our previous post about the film and watch its trailer.) Curiously, O'Nan first met the film’s director, David Gordon Green, at yesterday’s press junket in Los Angeles and our Nancy Mills says he didn’t seem at all bothered that he had no input on the film. “It’s about 75-80% faithful to the book,” O’Nan says, “although the film is a little lighter.”  He describes the theme of both book and movie as “How people come to do these terrible things to people they love.”  O’Nan is continuing with dark themes for his next book, which he says will be about “two women in their late seventies. They’re sisters-in-law who don’t like each other but come to realize they’re responsible for each other.”  Watch below to see O'Nan doing a reading from Snow Angels.