![]() ![]() "The level of detail was amazing - down to ashtrays they had made with the vintage casino logos to the rented vintage slot machines," she said. Pufahl said she had little to do with filming except for meeting before the movie was made with people involved, then visiting a set for it that portrayed a 1950s casino in Las Vegas, where part of Pufahl's novel takes place. "It requires so many people and so much money."īut it is her understanding that principal photography is complete for the film based on her book, Pufahl said. ![]() ![]() "Making a movie is such a huge endeavor," Pufahl said. Pufahl, who teaches creative writing at Stanford University and has a doctorate from the University of California, Davis, said she knows a lot of people who have written books, but none of those has ever become a movie. ![]() She spoke this past week in a telephone interview with The Capital-Journal from Monterey, California, where she lives with her wife, Shay O'Brien, and their dog. Pufahl, a 1997 graduate of Shawnee Heights High School, said it felt "surreal" to realize that her debut novel is becoming a film. Book by Shawnee Heights High School graduate is becoming a film That book is about to become a movie - and two of the producers are Academy Award winners. ![]()
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