"I said, I've just finished another novel,' recalls Porter. And they said, You've only just done one.' I said, Well, I bang them out fast, then edit them slowly.' He ended up reading it out aloud, giving them their first glimpse into the sensejumbled head of a teen delinquent named Shy, resident of a shite old mansion converted into a school for badly behaved boys in the middle of bumblefuck nowhere."
"Murphy had become close friends with Porter after starring in a stage adaptation of Grief Is the Thing With Feathers, his debut novel. It wasn't that Porter was angling for another collaboration. On the contrary: I felt it was unadaptable because of it being a kind of weather system in Shy's head. Also, I was a bit worried about all my content being wrung out for adaptations."
Max Porter read a draft of his new novel aloud to Cillian Murphy while on holiday, introducing the sense-jumbled consciousness of Shy, a teen delinquent in a converted mansion-school in the middle of nowhere. Murphy and Porter became close after a stage adaptation of Porter's debut and shared interests in care, teaching and mentoring. Porter considered Shy unadaptable because the novel operates as a weather system inside the protagonist's head and feared overuse in adaptations. Murphy founded a film company, Big Things, and the collaborators chose to focus the project on the care system and the headteacher figure, Steve.
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