novel adaptation
Literature becomes cinema
A novel adaptation is a work that transforms a novel into another medium—typically film, television, or theater.
The phrase usually refers to the adapted work itself rather than the process: The novel adaptation disappointed fans of the book.
Screen adaptations of popular novels generate endless debate about fidelity to the source material.
- abridgmentShortened form of text
- screenwriterAuthor of film scripts
- script doctorScreenplay revision specialist
- stage playLive theatrical work
- filmMovie or coating
television series · intertextuality · director · reinterpretation · musical theater · playwright · source material · book rights · page to screen · producer · radio drama · faithful adaptation · creative liberties · video game · modernization · period piece · web series · set designer
- dramatizationsenactment, reenactment, recreation, stage play, theatrical production
- stage productionsplay, musical, dress rehearsal, stage play, stage show
- television adaptationsminiseries, remake, dramatization, literary adaptation, faithful adaptation
novel adaptationoriginal screenplay
Film story not adapted
original script · spec script · original composition · original content · original series
novel adaptationvideo game adaptation
Film from digital entertainment
remake · musical adaptation · graphic novel adaptation · documentary · biopic
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