It's good to hear that even with something like this topic it's still about the characters. I'm curious how you found that person to whom the concept was important. Do you have characters floating around in your thoughts that fit an interest in this (characters in search of a story), or did you have to create someone from scratch?

I think there are always characters floating around that I'd like to eventually explore and I definitely have a folder of character ideas, but for this one I looked at the big plot pieces that were going to happen -- I knew what my action was going to be, so it was reverse engineering that action to a character where that climax would really connect with what I was trying to do. It's like -- if you know in the third act the hero is going to have to drive a motorcycle through a ring of fire (bad example), you want to make the heroes journey directly relate to that ring of fire in some way. It could be a fear of motorcycles, it could be a fear of fire, it could be a fear of rings, but something connects so that the story reaches an emotional peak mirrored with the peak of the action.