The Sky Is Everywhere: The Movie's Biggest Changes To The Book
A24's most recent indie drama, The Sky is Everywhere, was inspired by a young adult novel of the same name, and here are the biggest changes the movie makes to the book. Any movie that's based on literature is forced to change some details due to time constraints or just watchability in general. The amount of loyalty that film adaptations adhere to can bring about controversy, such as Stephen King's reaction to Stanley Kubrick's version of The Shining. However, changes are inevitable as filmmakers can't fit hundreds of pages worth of narration and themes into the space of 90 minutes. Sometimes these changes work, and sometimes they miss the mark completely.
The Sky is Everywhere's film adaptation sticks relatively closely to the general plot of its published counterpart. Grace Kaufman's Lennie captures the novel's protagonist flightiness; while her hair-trigger reactions are slightly more over-the-top her emotions behind her behavior remain the same. The movie follows Lennie as she works through her grief over the sudden loss of her older sister Bailey (Havana Rose Liu). She leaves notes and poems scattered about town, chronicling her feelings and specific memories they shared. Lennie is consistently torn between moving on and staying put. The musical prodigy wrestles with her choice of becoming a first-chair clarinetist, her self-isolation from family and friends, and her two love interests Toby (Pico Alexander) and Joe (Jaques Colimon).
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Considering that Jandy Nelson's book is so inwardly focused on Lennie's emotional journey, The Sky is Everywhere's biggest changes from the book are mainly an attempt to perform a balancing act between what can be shown and what must
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