Dave Egger's Max at Sea

So I went into the novelization thinking it would be a place to put all these passages and scenes that wouldn't fit into the movie. And I did end up using a few of those scenes. But while I was working on the book, it was funny, because I started going in new directions, different from any of the screenplay versions, pushing it into some territory that was personal to me. So in a way the movie is more Spike's version of Maurice's book, and this novel is more my version.

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