Stephen Emond's "Bright Lights, Dark Nights"

Stephen Emond is the creator of the Emo Boy comic series, two illustrated young adult novels, Happyface and Winter Town, and Steverino, a comic strip that ran in his local Connecticut newspaper.

Here Emond shares some ideas about casting an adaptation of his new novel, Bright Lights, Dark Nights:

Casting a movie for Bright Lights would be so difficult! I�m drawing a blank on who could play Walter. It feels like there�s a definite �type� for the white, awkward male lead. Freddie Highmore, Logan Lerman, etc. There was a guy, Jack Carpenter that we talked to when working on an Emo Boy movie that would be good if he isn�t too old. Maybe even Nick Jonas? For Naomi, I see people on TV all the time that would fit but I can�t think of their names! Vanessa Morgan is one. There�s a singer named Justine Skye that would be great. A young Nia Long or Janet Jackson? Jason Mills I did picture someone for, the rapper Tyler the Creator. Likewise I imagined Dean Norris (�Uncle Hank� from Breaking Bad) when I wrote Walter�s father. For Lester, maybe John Boyega, soon to be of Star Wars fame?

For the soundtrack, I�d go for a combo of Jon Brion, Tyler the Creator, and Babyface.

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