How to Adapt Anything into a Screenplay

Foreword by Jeff Arch. Preface.

Acknowledgments.

1. A Short History of Adaptations.

2. Professor K.'s Five-Step Adaptation Process.

3. Legal Issues of Adaptations.

4. How Faithful Should Adaptations Be?

Case Study: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

5. Mining the Vein and Extracting the Gold.

Case Study: The Shawshank Redemption.

6. Truth, Lies, and Alternative Structures.

Case Study: Rashomon.

7. Compiling Characters, Cherry-Picking, and Captain Phenomenal.

Case Study: The Patriot.

8. Reinterpreting and Reinventing the Storytelling Wheel.

Case Study: O Brother, Where Art Thou?

9. I Know It Really Happened That Way, But . . . .

Case Study: Madison.

10. Learning by Writing Across the Genres.

Case Study: Glengarry Glen Ross.

11. Good, Evil, and the Eternal Combat Over Adaptations.

Case Study: X-Men.

12. Smart Choices with Source Material.

Case Study: Shiloh.

13. Hints from and Interviews with Hollywood Bigwigs.

Bibliography.

Filmography.

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