Because the idea behind the movie was based around my grandmother’s death back a few years ago, I wrote the basis of the story to sort of help cope with the feelings I was experiencing at that time.

I can’t reveal anything concerning how this plays out for Journey, but that was sort of the core element of how the story got its emotional center. Its heavy stuff, but we wanted to treat themes like that as respectfully as we could as we knew children would be watching this.

The best way to really describe things is that Twilight’s experiences in the movie very much reflect how I felt shortly after my grandmother died. It really hits home with me when I read the ending to the new draft because its one of the most emotionally real and beautiful things we’ve ever written.