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If you want to
know how to write a screenplay, one way is to write
an adaptation. That is, you want to a movie
script, but don’t want to write your own, original
characters, or don’t want
to write your own original plot. Your resources include going online,
the library, the
bookstore--search for novels or biographies that you think you can
turn into a screenplay. Of
course, you have to get permission from the author(s) before turning
their original work into your own screenwriting credit.
Also, keep in mind
that many, Hollywood studios get
their ideas by buying the rights to many, best selling books,
so they probably already have a screenwriter or a team of screenwriters
working on turning those best selling books into films. For example, look at Lord of the Rings. This already has a proven “reading audience” so there’s an
automatic “movie-viewing” audience.
So maybe it’s
better to find books you love, that are not so popular, but can be made
into great movie
scripts. Again,
secure permission from the author(s) and keep proof of this.
There’s an
interview in which an executive from a production company loved a
screenplay
that would take her back to a place that she loves and where she had
just spent her vacation. So
she liked the screenplay because one of its many positives was the location. She finds out that the screenwriter did not get permission from
the author. She calls this screenwriter an “amateur.”
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