WALK-IN – Up Close with the Director Scott Blum
As the co-founder of the popular inspirational website DailyOM, did it help you prepare to write your books and screenplay?
As the co-founder of the popular inspirational website The main thing DailyOM contributed was giving me the directive to trust my intuition instead of second-guessing my decisions by trying to make them what is considered “smart” or “logical.” There is very little logic that would support a successful executive taking time to write and market spiritual novels, let alone writing and directing a feature film without any experience. But it was definitely the right thing to do when looking at it holistically.
The film WALK-IN is based on your amazon bestseller “Summer Path” —-one of a trilogy of books published by Hay House– What inspired you to turn it into a film?
The producers Mike Wojciechowski and Frank McEnulty approached my wife, Madisyn Taylor, about making a DailyOM film but she wasn’t ready to make a film yet from a creative standpoint. She suggested that they talk to me since my books were already written and many people have felt they were cinematic in style. And although I was flattered, I eventually turned them down because I was concerned that another director wouldn’t be able to be faithful to the characters that I had been living with for years. To my surprise the producers offered the directing role to me, which was something I couldn’t turn down.
Your novels (published by Hay House) and your new film WALK-IN cover very “spiritual/metaphysical” topics. Were you always drawn to these topics?
