I read about six stories on Colin Trevorrow's Book of Henry that said the story was s secret and one that told me what that secret story was. That was obviously the only one worth bothering with. So, according to Film Divider, the hush-hush story is a kind of rescue mission. A young girl is in trouble, and a young boy and his mother team up to rescue her. "Henry is ten years old," the report says, "He has a crush on Christina, the Police Commissioners daughter who lives across the street. Shes also ten years old. Unfortunately, Henry uncovers indications that Christinas life is not a good one. Far from it." Sounds upsetting. They go on to to explain that the book of the title is what Henry uses to write down his rescue plan, and then later, his mother and little brother get the same book and use it to mount the rescue. "Its an ingenious proposition, but not one that Henry will be able to enact by himself. Its also rather unforgiving, in the way the plans of an angry ten year old might well be." Sounds like somebody is going to get hurt. Bad. This original script was by Gregg Hurwitz who has written for DC and Marvel comics and is best known as a novelist. It's unusual for Trevorrow, who is a writer himself, to be linked to another person's original material, but let's take that as a vote of confidence. The Book of Henry is set to shoot in September. Jurassic World is along in June.
Brendon Connelly has been a film writer since the early 90s, with time on the staff of Orbit Magazine, Slashfilm, Bleeding Cool, Den of Geek and many more. He's a long time teacher of film studies and practical filmmaking classes, and has directed music videos, commercials, short films and more. His favourite film is Terry Gilliam's Brazil, his favourite food is pancakes or crepes, and he tries to live his life by the teachings of Kermit the Frog.
