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\u201cLong time ago, when we had the original script of The Notebook<\/a> that was written by Jan Sardi<\/a>, the studio and I decided, \u2018Hey, we\u2019re going to get another writer, and we\u2019re going to start from scratch. He\u2019s going to revise it to the way we want it.\u2019 One of the writers we went to was a young, largely unknown screenwriter. His name was M. Night Shyamalan,\u201d Sparks told The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>.<\/p>\n Though the now supernatural aficionado was approached to help write the script for The Notebook<\/a>, Sparks says he passed because he was \u201cgetting ready to do other things like The Sixth Sense<\/a>. You\u2019ve got to give him his pass. It all worked out for him!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nicholas Sparks and M. Night Shyamalan are more similar than you think. And though joining forces for a novel may seem like a unique choice, the pair\u2019s paths have crossed before. \u201cLong time ago, when we had the original script of The Notebook that was written by Jan Sardi, the studio and I decided, \u2018Hey, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2090730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2090729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Nicholas-Sparks-on-Collaborating-With-M-Night-Shyamalan-for-a.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2090729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2090731,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090729\/revisions\/2090731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2090730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2090729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2090729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2090729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}