Setting for the Shiloh movie

Comment:

how did you get a setting so similar from the book into the movie? Also we love the book.

Phyllis replied:

I didn’t have any part in where the movie was filmed.  It was actually filmed in a canyon in California where many movies are made.   The producers carefully read the book and tried to find an area that looked very much like the one in the book.  What they didn’t get quite right, and they admit this, is that the house in the movie (which was there in the canyon and is used for multiple movies) was not at all like the little four-room house Marty and his family lived in.  Marty’s bedroom in the movie was too fancy; in the book, he slept on the couch.  In the final Shiloh book, “A Shiloh Christmas,” he wants very much to have a room of his own….