screenplay adaptation
Book-to-film transformation
A screenplay adaptation is a script written for film or television that's based on existing source material—typically a novel, play, stage musical, or earlier movie.
The term distinguishes adapted work from original screenplays: The screenplay adaptation of the novel took fifteen years to complete.
Awards often separate the two categories.
- transpositionSwapping positions of elements
- script doctorScreenplay revision specialist
- condensationVapor turning to liquid
- playRecreation or staged drama
- film rightsLicense to adapt cinematically
novel · graphic novel · folk tale · reinterpretation · shooting script · director · modernization · poem · dramatization · biography · true story · mythology · short story · visual storytelling · plot structure · character arcs · producer · video game
- adaptationsfilm adaptations, TV adaptations, stage adaptations, novel adaptations, dramatization
- book adaptationsnovelization, movie tie-in
- creative libertiesartistic license, poetic license, liberties, creative liberties, fictionalization
- scriptsalphabet, Latin alphabet, Roman alphabet, Greek alphabet, Hebrew alphabet
- Theater Formsstage play, one-act play, mystery play, morality play, passion play
screenplay adaptationnovelization
Adapting films into books
graphic novel adaptation · video game adaptation · theatrical adaptation
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