How ‘The In Between’ Writer Brought Suspense to a Love Story
thewrap.comJoey King stars as a teenager dealing with young love and loss in the new Paramount+ original film “The In Between.” But this is no ordinary romance.
Yes, it’s a film that explores first love, but it also explores a second chance courtesy of a supernatural twist.Author Marc Klein based the idea on of the tragic death of an ex-girlfriend almost 15 years ago.
Klein noticed certain events in the aftermath of her death that made him think she may have been trying to communicate with him, and that brought him to the research of the afterlife — also known as ADCs or After Death Communications.
What started as a rough idea turned into both a book and a film. “I wrote a partial manuscript, about 100 pages. That was what was brought to Joey King, but I had already fleshed out what the rest of the book was going to be,” Klein said. “So I sort of had it as a movie pitch already.
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