![]() For her full interview about meeting Blume and adapting “Margaret,” read on. “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” hit theaters via Lionsgate on April 28.įremon also spoke to Variety for Blume’s cover story. to make an in-person plea to Blume the rest is history. Within a week of the letter, Fremon Craig and Brooks flew to Key West, Fla. Brooks mentored Fremon Craig and would serve as a producer on the film, and most importantly, the fact that Fremon Craig was the first person to pursue the rights whose work Blume had previously seen. Blume was convinced for three reasons: the beauty of the letter that Fremon Craig wrote her, the fact that James L. She’s referring to “The Edge of Seventeen” writer-director Kelly Fremon Craig, to whom she eventually granted the screen rights. “And then I got this letter from Kelly,” Blume told Variety, smiling, in a cover story for March’s Power of Women issue. ![]() ![]() She didn’t want any filmmaker to touch it. But when it came to “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” - arguably Blume’s most famous title - her arms were crossed. ![]() Now in her eighties, legendary children’s author Judy Blume only recently became keen to the idea of adapting her books for the screen. ![]()
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