Haley Hewitt was the director chosen for the film. Haley had broken through with indy films set in Maine. She herself was from Maine, from Westbrook, which for all intents and purposes is a part of the Portland community, but far enough away that Haley could claim her independence, which she’d very much enjoyed for much of her life, up to and including her first films, which made the rounds of the festival circuits, and so were well-known by critics but otherwise unknown by the general public, until she could start casting name actors. Then she was recruited by Disney to helm the live action version of The Sword in the Stone, but that was before the studio had really gotten into the swing of the idea, and there had already been enough King Arthur flicks for a generation apathetic to the idea in the first place, so Haley’s career necessarily came full circle…
She hadn’t followed the Kate Meadows story, too busy in her film work and community to have noticed, but the very minute the announcement had been made, Haley became inundated with requests for her opinion. She opted to be professional. She talked about the production, about the actor she was working with again who’d appeared in a few of those early films. She talked about how happy she was with how things were coming together.
Truthfully, she really didn’t have a take on it. She didn’t care. She liked the script. She’d read the book. And that was it. When the film was released, she continued with all her standard points on the press tour, at the premiere. She recorded a commentary track for the DVD, and anyone who had heard her talk about it before heard much the same thing. She liked the work that had been done. She particularly liked the cinematography, which she always felt never got near the amount of attention it should.
In short, Haley didn’t care about Kate Meadows. The movie made a decent amount at the box office. It allowed her to keep working. That was all.
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