R171. Adaptation
Thursday, April 9, 2015
12:00 pm to 1:15 pm
A panel whose members have a dozen film adaptations between them talk about the process: what filmmakers look for, the differences between novels and films, and the business side of how movies do and don't get made. Is there something a novelist can do to improve the chances of selling movie rights? What sorts of novels make good and bad movies? Should you try adapting your novel for film? Should you take the money and run? How does the narrative structure of film differ from novels?
Participants
Moderator:
Shawn Lawrence Otto is an award-winning screenwriter, novelist, nonfiction author, speaker, and science advocate. His film House of Sand and Fog was nominated for three Oscars. He won the Minnesota Book Award, and he has written for top Hollywood studios. He is adapting his novel Sins Of Our Fathers for film.
Thomas Pope is a screenwriter (Someone to Watch Over Me, F/X, Lords of Discipline, Bad Boys, Hammett, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) and the author of Good Scripts, Bad Scripts. He has worked for Francis Ford Coppola, Barry Levinson, Robert Redford, Ridley Scott, Wim Wenders, Frank Oz, and Penny Marshall.
