film based on novel

The Foreigner

(written by David Marconi, based on the novel "The Chinaman" by Stephen Leather)

Highly Recommended! | crime, drama, mystery, film, action, thriller, film based on novel, Michael McElhatton, Katie Leung, Jackie Chan

Follow Your Curiosity

"We were talking about Jack Nicholson, and that level of aspiration for the film [based on my novel]. What happened was a change in the hierarchy at Warner Brothers, and the people who had brought the project in no longer had power. That was the first time that happened. But it happened over and over. You don't know what to believe, and you never know for sure why you're getting turned down, or even why they were interested in you in the first place."

— William Kennedy

for Creatives | creating isn't easy, artist integrity, filmmaking, feedback/criticism/rejection, value the art, film based on novel, screenwriting, William Kennedy, Jack Nicholson

Blade Runner 2049

(written by Hampton Fancher & Michael Green, based on the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick)

Highly Recommended! | mystery, sci-fi, film, thriller, Ryan Gosling, Robin Wright, Harrison Ford, film based on novel, Michael Green, Hampton Fancher, Philip K. Dick, Ana de Armas, Edward James Olmos, Sylvia Hoeks, Sean Young, Barkhad Abdi

Follow Your Curiosity

Legend

(written by Brian Helgeland, based on the novel "The Profession of Violence" by John Pearson)

Highly Recommended! | British, crime, drama, film, thriller, Tom Hardy, historical, biography, Brian Helgeland, Paul Anderson, film based on novel, John Pearson, Christopher Eccleston, Emily Browning, Sam Hoare, Colin Morgan, Chris Mason

Follow Your Curiosity

"I had a 260-page screenplay [for Something Wicked This Way Comes]. That's six hours. [Director] Jack [Clayton] said, 'Well, now you've got to cut out forty pages.' I said, 'God, I can't.' He said, 'Go ahead, I know you can do it. I'll be behind you.' So I cut forty pages out. He said, 'Okay, now you've got to cut another forty pages out.' I got it down to 180 pages, and then Jack said, 'Thirty more.' I said, 'Impossible, impossible!' Okay, I got it down to 150 pages. And Jack said, 'Thirty more.' Well, he kept telling me I could do it, and, by God, I went through a final time and got it down to 120 pages. It was better."

— Ray Bradbury

for Creatives | mystery, film, fantasy, thriller, Ray Bradbury, film based on novel, screenwriting, Jack Clayton

Follow Your Curiosity

Hidden Figures

(written by Allison Schroeder & Theodore Melfi, based on the novel by Margot Lee Shetterly)

Highly Recommended! | drama, film, historical, biography, film based on novel, Kevin Costner, Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kirsten Dunst, Theodore Melfi, Allison Schroeder, Margot Lee Shetterly

Follow Your Curiosity

"One of the big roles of an agency today is to look at the book as content and to see how it can be sold in all these different ways: book to film, book to television, book to product. The people who are making money in the industry are taking the book's content and leveraging it in a 360-degree way."

— Regina Brooks

for Creatives | novel writing, the successful artist, publishing, agents, film based on novel, Regina Brooks, TV series based on novel