After reading the novel "The Missing Baby", Ben Affleck liked the story told in the novel so much, so he asked his friendhelp him write the script for the film. The script took more than two years, and Ben Affleck and Aaron Stockard met whenever they had time, almost three or four times a year. For the story content of the hundreds of pages of Dennis Lehan’s novel, we structured it and condensed it into an image of about 2 hours.
When Affleck and Stockard adapted, they deliberately retained the morally ambiguous world created by Dennis Lehan, instead of just blindly just Create conflicts between several main and pure roles. When Ben Affleck handed the completed script to the film’s production partner Sean Bailey, Bailey was infected by the power contained in the script and said: The story in the script has It is very narrative and has tortuous clues, but the most important thing is that it has deep emotions. When reading, you can really feel the infection of the script.
