Author
The Children Act was written by Ewan McGregor.
False!
The Children Act was written by Ian McEwan.
The book is set in Newcastle.
False!
It's set in London.
Fiona's husband, Jack Maye, is a professor of History.
True!
Adam Henry was played by Timothée Chalamet.
False!
He was played by Fionn Whitehead.
Ian McEwan adapted The Children Act into a screenplay.
True!
Ian McEwan is know as a screenwriter and often adapts his books into films.
The book was published in 2014.
True!
Adam's favourite poet is William Yeats.
True!
After singing with Fiona, Adam reads a lot of Yeats.
Emma Thompson was the only actress considered for the role of Fiona Maye.
True!
The film director, Richard Eyre, never thought of anyone else for this role.
Twenty of Ian McEwan's books were adapted into movies.
False!
They were 10.
The idea of the book came to Ian McEwan at dinner with some judges.
Ture!
He was invited by one them - Sir Alan Ward.
Fiona's cousins still live in Newcastle.
They moved south long ago.
The Children Act won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
False!
The film was never nominated for an Oscar.
He used to have a nickname 'Ian Macabre' which means 'gloomy, scary'.
True!
It was due to the darkness of his stories.
The title is a reference to the Children Act 1989, a US Act of Parliament.
False!
The Children Act is a UK Act.
Fiona loves playing jazz music.
False!
She likes listening to jazz, but not to play it.
Ian McEwan appears in the film.
False.
Ian McEwan never appeared in any films.
In 2006, McEwan was accused of sexual harrasment.
False!
He was accused of plagiarism.
Jehovah's Witnesses tried to sue Ian MacEwan after the book had been published.
False!
It never happened.
False!
Mr Henry admitted that he'd been 'a wild man', but he'd never hit his wife or son.
'The Childrean Act' was released in 2017 along with another film based on McEwan's book 'The Child In Time'.
True!
'The Child in Time' premiered on BBC in September 2017 and stars Benedict Cumberbatch.