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How to Adapt Anything into a Screenplay | 
 enlarge | Author: Richard Krevolin
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 497642
Media: Paperback
Pages: 218
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.7
ISBN: 0471225452
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.23
EAN: 9780471225454
ASIN: 0471225452
Publication Date: March 13, 2003
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Product Description
From concept to finished draft-a nuts-and-bolts approach to adaptations Aspiring and established screenwriters everywhere, take note! This down-to-earth guide is the first to clearly articulate the craft of adaptation. Drawing on his own experience and on fourteen years of teaching, screenwriter Richard Krevolin presents his proven five-step process for adapting anything-from novels and short stories to newspaper articles and poems-into a screenplay. Used by thousands of novelists, playwrights, poets, and journalists around the country, this can't-miss process features practical advice on how to break down a story into its essential components, as well as utilizes case studies of successful adaptations. Krevolin also provides an insider's view of working and surviving within the Hollywood system-covering the legal issues, interviewing studio insiders on what they are looking for, and offering tips from established screenwriters who specialize in adaptations. - Outlines a series of stages that help you structure your story to fit the needs of a 120-page screenplay
- Explains how to adapt anything for Hollywood, from a single sentence story idea all the way to a thousand-page novel
- Advises on the tricky subject of just how faithful your adaptation should be
- Features helpful hints from Hollywood bigwigs-award-winning television writer Larry Brody; screenwriter and script reader Henry Jones; screenwriter and author Robin Russin; screenwriter and author Simon Rose; and more
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 Great book for anyone interested in screenwriting May 9, 2009
R. Orgovan
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am an aspiring screenwriter just looking into the field. I have have not yet taken any courses but would love to learn about screenwriting. This book is the perfect for that. It is fascinating reading about the basic structure of a screenplay in terms that even I can understand. The analysis of Hollywood movie screenplays is a great way to teach the process through example. Reading a few of the negative reviews made me wonder if those people understood the purpose of this wonderful book. It was not written with the idea that is was to help Steven Speilberg with his work. It was written for you and me. Based on that it has to be a 5 star book. Simply fascinating.
Incredibly helpful book for any writer May 1, 2009
Southern Scribe (The deep South)
What I love about this book is that it gives a system to develop a story
that can be used for screenplays or even stageplays and books. It uses lots of great examples and is fun and easy to read. Enjoy it, I did.
No TV shows December 20, 2004
jancola (Encino, CA United States)
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
A book claiming to tell you how to adapt "anything" into a screenplay should have a bit more than books, short stories and plays. I mean, books and short stories are basically the same kind of thing! While it does have an example of comic book adaptation (X-Men), it doesn't have anything about adapting a serial or TV-show. Since this is a fairly common form of adaptation (e.g. The Flintstones, SWAT, Firefly) I am somewhat disappointed. Some of the legal advice was useful but also incomplete.
 No Credits on IMDB? December 5, 2003
7 out of 12 found this review helpful
As a new screenwriter trying to soak up all the information I can about writing, I bought this book and was disappointed. I started to raise my eyebrow a bit in the beginning of it and so I went the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com) to see what screenplays the author had written so that I could assure myself that this guy actually knew what he was talking about, but he had no writing credits at all! Not even "Glitter" or "Gigli" - even as bad as those are, at least that would mean that he has actually written a script that got picked up which would then give him the right to teach me a few lessons. I re-read the back of the book and it says that he is a professor of screenwriting. It was at that point that I put this book down for good and reminded myself of a famous quote, "Those who can't do, teach."
 Useless December 5, 2003
7 out of 17 found this review helpful
This is a just a bad book. Plain and simple. Just bad. I sold it to a used book store a week after a bought it.
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