How Screenwriters Faced the Challenges of Adapting a Living Person’s Life for the Big Screen 

Most biopics persuade you to empathize with the main character. But as actress-turned-writer/director Kristen Stewart explains, her screenplay adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir “The Chronology of Water” allows you to virtually become the protagonist. “[Lidia] invites you to project yourself into her book,” she says. In a similar way, the film presents the thoughts of […]