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John August and Dan Jinks Make 'Big Fish' the Musical
Screenwriter John August and Producer Dan Jinks compare making "Big Fish," the musical, with making movies.
By Kim Masters • • 28m ListenScreenwriter John August and producer Dan Jinks talk about how they worked in secret for years with their collaborators to turn Big Fish the movie into Big Fish the Broadway musical.
Banner image: Kate Baldwin and Norbert Leo Butz in Big Fish, the musical
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In the late 90's, John August read the book Big Fish by Daniel Wallace and convinced Sony to buy it for him to adapt into a movie. That film , directed by Tim Burton, came out in 2003. Even then August knew he wasn't done with the story. For the last nine years he's worked on developing Big Fish into a Broadway musical .
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