The first time I read the book I just completely fell in love with the subject matter and I felt so connected to it personally and I also thought, “How the hell can you adapt something like this?” primarily because it’s full of so many great stories. He’s the one who introduced me to the book.
#THE GLASS CASTLE GLASS THEME MOVIE#
Whereas that film took place in a home for troubled teenagers, this movie focuses on troubled parents and how they impact their children, all while dragging them along on a journey from town to town and job to job, keeping the dream of a fantasy existence alive just to hold their fragile family unit together.ĭen of Geekhad a chance to speak with Cretton about the film, how he managed to adapt the book, and working with both this extraordinarily offbeat family (only Rex is no longer among us) and his potent cast.ĭestin Daniel Cretton: I came onto it through my producer Gil Netter. The movie - which has been in various stages of development for years - was directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, whose second feature film, 2013’s Short Term 12, was a breakout independent hit for the filmmaker and its star, Larson. Woody Harrelson and Naomi Watts star as Rex and Rose Mary Walls, the parents who are the chaotic, often dark and unpredictable storm at the center of the Walls’ story, while Brie Larson portrays Jeannette as a young adult who physically breaks free of her parents by moving to New York, but still finds herself caught in their gravitational pull years later. The Glass Castle is an adaptation of Jeannette Walls’ best-selling 2005 memoir of the same name, in which she recounted the poverty-stricken, endlessly rambling and off-the-grid existence endured by herself and her three siblings at the hands of her eccentric, deeply dysfunctional and, in the case of her father Rex, alcoholic parents.
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