# THE THING WITH FEATHERS director Dylan Southern wants to honor Max Porter's book

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Podcast: [Untitled Film Project Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/untitled-film-project-podcast-6400124)
Published: 2025-11-28T12:45:00+00:00
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## Resource

When you're making a movie based on a novel, the audience is expecting a faithful adaptation. So when director Dylan Southern was writing the screenplay for THE THING WITH FEATHERS, he had original author Max Porter involved throughout the process. We sat down with Southern and talked to him about the efforts he made, the pit stops of making his first non-documentary film and the movies that inspired him...

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