Janet Yang

Yeah, yeah.

But yeah, so this novel, High Crimes, was submitted to producer Janet Yang and her former partner in Manifest Films, uh, Lisa Henson.

Now, Yang was attracted to the novel's strong female protagonist who has to make, you know, tough, almost impossible choices throughout the story.

So-

I mean, this is a long story, John.

I'm sorry, but... um uh i won a short uh a grant with julia gao and janet yang and cape and it was for fifteen thousand dollars and i it gave me something to write off of um and so you know we raised money off of that and um but the basis of the story is This short became a story that was centered on my sister, Anna, who has a cognitive disability.

And I realized that, like, the most interesting thing about the script wasn't me and my perspective.

Like, that story's been told a million times.