How to Adapt Anything into a ScreenplayISBN: 978-0-471-22545-4
Paperback
218 pages
March 2003
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"Enlightens and clarifies the adaptation process...It's like a semester of film school only a lot cheaper and you can learn while lying on your couch in your underwear." ? Tom DeSanto, screenwriter for X-Men, Apt Pupil, X-Men II
?Richard Krevolin understands that writers of adaptations owe little to the original material. Instead, like all screenwriters, they owe audiences the best possible movie. He asserts quite rightly, in clear and engaging language, that adaptations are more like original screenplays than they are different from them. And in doing so, he has written the best book possible.? ? Prof. Richard Walter, UCLA School of Cinema Screenwriting Chairman
?Oh good, another book I don't have to write since Richard Krevolin's done such a bang-up job of it. He's distilled not only the essence of the art of adaptation but also reminded us of the essentials of drama and why we want to tell stories in the first place.? ? Chris Vogler, author of The Writer?s Journey
?I wish I had this book when I was adapting the life of Jake LaMotta into the screenplay for Raging Bull.? ? Mardik Martin, screenwriter for Raging Bull, Mean Streets, and New York, New York