They struggle for survival in a dark time of grocery stores with empty shelves and gas stations gone dry. Page (a young-looking 28-year-old) stars as 17-year-old Nell, and Wood plays her older sister, Eva, 18. 'I felt awful for writing these scenes that made this lovely person suffer so much.' But I was sitting next to Evan Rachel Wood, and there are some very difficult scenes in the book that she had to live through in the movie,' Hegland said, pausing to laugh. The author attended a screening last September at the Toronto Film Festival with Page, co-star Evan Rachel Wood and director Patricia Rozema, and said she felt comfortable with the inevitable changes made during the adaptation of the original book for the screen. This spring, a feature film based on the book will hit theaters, starring Ellen Page of 'Juno' fame. After Hegland's initial struggled to find the right publisher, the book went on to sell 100,000 copies, translated in 15 different languages. Click here to view this embed.įive years after hunkering down amid the redwoods and oaks, Hegland emerged with her first novel, titled - rightly enough - 'Into the Forest,' the story of two teenage sisters living alone in the woods after the death of their parents, in a very grim world of the near future. This device is unable to display framed content.
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