MORE: J.D. Vance opens up about movie adaption of ‘Hillbilly Elegy’
On her Facebook page, Gibson wrote: “Look who stopped by the Moon today! Ron Howard and he loved the Bad Hunter! Great guy!”
The Bad Hunter is a vegetarian wrap on the menu at the Middletown coffee shop and eatery. Howard said it was a “really good” sandwich, according to Gibson.
When Howard walked in, Gibson was in the back of the restaurant and one of Triple Moon’s managers, Renae Theiss, came up to her and said: “Turn around. Turn around. Ron Howard is here.”
“What?” Gibson said.
She said after Howard finished eating, she asked him if he would pose for a few pictures.
After denying “a few relatively famous filmmakers,” Vance said he shifted gears and agreed to talk with a few about turning his best-selling book into a movie.
That included Howard, the director of award-winning blockbuster movies like “Backdraft,” “Apollo 13” and “A Beautiful Mind.”
“Ron was just … this incredibly kind and thoughtful guy, but he also was doing something that I was trying to do with the book, which was tell a story about a group of people who don’t get stories told about them very often and he seemed very interested about approaching the project carefully and thoughtfully and compassionately and really just revealing … what he thinks is an important story and I obviously think is an important story, too,” Vance previously said.
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