Editing A Walk to Remember (section)

===Development===
The inspiration for the 1999 novel ''[[A Walk to Remember (novel)|A Walk to Remember]]'' was [[Nicholas Sparks]]' sister, Danielle Sparks Lewis, who died of breast cancer in 2000. In a speech he gave after her death in [[Berlin]], the author admits that "In many ways, Jamie Sullivan was my younger sister". The plot was inspired by her life; Danielle met a man who wanted to marry her, "even when he knew she was sick, even when he knew that she might not make it".<ref>{{cite web| last=Sparks| first=Nicholas| author-link=Nicholas Sparks (author)| title=Background information on ''A Walk to Remember'', from a speech given in Berlin, Germany for Heyne Verlag| year=2000| url=http://www.nicholassparks.com/LearnMore.asp?MovieID=8#| access-date=12 July 2007| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090903013918/http://www.nicholassparks.com/LearnMore.asp?MovieID=8| archive-date=September 3, 2009| df=mdy-all}}</ref> Both the book and film are dedicated to Danielle Sparks Lewis.

It was filmed in [[Wilmington, North Carolina]] in the spring of 2001, at the same time that ''[[Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (film)|Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood]]'' (2002) and the television show ''[[Dawson's Creek]]'' were being filmed there. Many of the sets were from ''Dawson's Creek'' (1998)—particularly the school, hospital and Landon's home.<ref name="DVDCommentary">{{cite video| people=[[Adam Shankman]]| title="A Walk to Remember" DVD Commentary| date=2002}}</ref> The total shooting time was originally 50 days, despite Moore being able to only work 10 hours a day because she was a minor.<ref name="DVDCommentary"/> [[Daryl Hannah]], who wore a brown wig as her character, had received a collagen injection in her lips, which went awry and caused noticeable swelling. By the end of filming, however, the symptoms were less obvious.<ref>{{cite web| last=Shankman| first=Adam| title=Interview with Adam Shankman, Director of "A Walk to Remember" by Rebecca Murray and Fred Topel| url=http://movies.about.com/library/weekly/aa010902c.htm| access-date=27 August 2007| archive-date=September 30, 2009| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090930001213/http://movies.about.com/library/weekly/aa010902c.htm| url-status=dead}}</ref>