(Read more about Tamblyn’s passion and process, right here.) Now the film is set for its theatrical release, and it’s high time more audiences see the remarkable work that Tamblyn, along with her stars Alia Shawkat and Janet McTeer, did to turn Fitch’s deep novel about grief into a unique and gutsy feature film. Tamblyn persisted, however, eventually winning over Fitch and making her own big, bruising film. It’s a process she detailed to us last year at the Los Angeles Film Festival, where the film premiered. ‘Fireball’: Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer Make a Dynamic Doc Duo Fitch, who had been burned a bit by the big screen adaptation of her “White Oleander,” wasn’t exactly thrilled with the prospect of someone - let alone some actress - taking on the film.
And when she was finally ready to take it the screen (first just as a screenwriter, much, much later as a director), she had an even harder road ahead of her. She sat on it for awhile, she sat with it. READ MORE: How Amber Tamblyn Stopped Asking For Permission From Men to Make Her Directorial Debut ‘Paint It Black’īut that didn’t mean she was ready to turn it into a film, much less her feature directorial debut.
Wouldn’t that make for a great movie, just about the tormented, grief-ridden, inside, interior minds of women?’” Tamblyn told us last year. First-time feature director Amber Tamblyn sparked to Janet Fitch’s big, bruising novel “Paint It Black” the very first time she read it. “I just had this very instantaneous, cinematic, visceral reaction to the language of the book.
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