Articles

How to Acquire the Rights to Develop a Screenplay (or Make a Film) Based on a Book

If you're planning to turn a book into a screenplay or film, and the material is under copyright, you will need to acquire the film rights to adapt...

Q/A: Basing a Screenplay Story on a Published Book (or Movie, TV Series, Song, Play or Other Material)

Q: Is it legal to adapt a book (or other material) into a screenplay?

Book-to-Screen: The Adaptation of a Self-Help Book (He's Just Not That Into You)

This article looks at the adaptation process of the 2009 film He’s Just Not That Into You - a rare occasion that a self-help book is made into a mo...

Screenplay-to-Novel: A Q&A with William Schreiber

Creating your own IP, by transforming your script into a book, is one of the ways you can add value to your story to help you sell it to "Hollywoo...

Book-to-Screen: The Adaptation of The Cider House Rules

Screenwriter John Irving had the formidable task of condensing his own 550-page novel into a 136-page script for the 1999 film The Cider House Rul...

Book-to-Screen: The Adaptation of Public Enemies

This article looks at the 2009 film Public Enemies (adapted from the narrative nonfiction book by Bryan Burroughs) in an attempt to explain why str...