“Big Fish” Author Drops Into the Capital City

Daniel Wallace was in the Capital City on Saturday for a book signing at Capitol Books in Old Cloverdale, where Director Tim Burton shot some scenes from the movie.

They also used sites in Wetumpka, Tallassee, and Huntington College’s campus.

Wallace visited Montgomery as part of the to AUM common reading program.

He spoke about his experiences as an author.

Wallace said, “I never really had high expectations for being a writer and I don’t think that anybody who goes into it realistically should have very high expectations for it because it is what it is. There are a lot of writers out there.”

Wallace has written five books.

He’s also a professor and lecturer in the English department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

After the book signing, the Capri Theatre showed the 2003 big screen version of the film.

Wallace met with fans and spoke about the experience he got while working on the film movie.

Local fans were excited to meet the man who wrote a book about our area.

“It’s just incredible that we can get somebody who has written about our area, a movie that was filmed in our area, to come down and talk to people again ten years later,” said Montgomery resident Brent Rosen.

“So much of Montgomery’s artistic community, at least the young artistic community, was really born out of the big fish experience,” Rosen continued.

The movie received several Golden Globe nominations, including best picture.