literary adaptation
Novel becomes film
A literary adaptation is a work that transforms a written source—typically a novel, short story, or play—into another medium such as film, television, or stage production.
The term implies both faithfulness to the original and creative reimagining: The film is a loose adaptation of the novel.
Adaptations range from faithful renderings to radical reinterpretations that retain only basic elements of the source material.
- dramatizationConverting events to performance
- reinterpretationNew understanding of something
- screenwritingComposing scripts for film
- film versionCinematic rendering of source
- filmMovie or coating
page to screen · transposition · novel · intertextuality · short story · dramaturgy · abridgment · stage play · television series · translation · localization · play · graphic novel · modernization · source material · based on · poem · musical
- literaturebooks, book, fiction, poetry, stories
- folklorefairy tales, fairytales, folktales, folk tales, folk tale
- poetrypoem, poems, poetry, verse, verses
- dramatizationsenactment, reenactment, recreation, stage play, theatrical production
- stage productionsplay, musical, dress rehearsal, stage play, stage show
- translationtranslator, literal translation, free translation, French translation, interpreting
literary adaptationoriginal screenplay
Film story not adapted
original script · original composition · spec script · original content