Adapting a Franz Kafka novel

I'm trying to decide if 'the trial' or 'the castle' would make a better film.

any feedback?

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Among the Hidden (the Shadow Children series)

I'm writing an adaptation of Margaret Peterson Haddix's "Among the Hidden," the first in a series called the Shadow Children novels.

If anyone on here is a fan of the books, I'd love to have other people read my script and tell me how it is. (Once I write it, naturally--waiting until April for the writing itself.)

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Adapting a manga?

So, I'm planning on turning Hetalia into a musical, kinda similar to how A Very Potter Musical was done. However, I have NO idea exactly how one would go about doing this. I mean, if Hetalia was more linear and there weren't SO MANY interpretations on historical events and what not, it'd be easier, but... I don't know.

So then I was thinking "maybe I could do a crossover between Hetalia and something else," like taking a fairy tale or something and putting Hetalia characters into it. Maybe even an Alice in Wonderland/Hetalia crossover...

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Peter Pan tragic love story...

story isn't fully developed into treatment, but it's a highly fleshed out idea that I'm working on for my summer class in adaptation. Any feedback would be much appreciated.

Synopsis:

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Public Domain

So I am really only interested in adapting novels that are in the public domain so that I can actually try to sell my script without worrying about getting rights to it. But I am having a terrible time trying to figure out if some certain novels are in the public domain. Is there a website that tells things like that or anything? Does anyone know a reliable way to check on specific books short of writing to the publisher? Thanks!

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Prequels and Sequels

I just realised that my current story isn't going to reach the 100 page mark so I'll have to start something else and put them together. To stop me having to draft out a whole new story I am going to make a prequel to the Alien films in which they are created by a crazy scientist.

Anybody out there doing something similar?

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Condensing

Submitted by Naranne on April 15, 2011 - 04:25.

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How is everyone going with condensing action, and dialogue, if they have to? I'm working with a rough draft of a friend's novel, and there's lots of dialogue. I've kind of decided to work on that after April, but...

I still look at my script and go, "But- but- but that's like a whole monologue!"

It's mildly distressing.

(Not to mention that when I write fiction, I tend to be far more description-orientated than dialogue.)

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biographical adaptation=a mess!

Submitted by girlintewhitistreet on April 14, 2011 - 21:57.

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Help! Anyone want to become my writing partner and solve all my problems for me? My heroine has runaway from an abusive past and now finds herself in the early 20th century art world as a model. She lives with an artist who found her hungry and homeless and gave her a home in exchange for her modeling time. Now he's abusive and she goes through a series of affairs for about 4 years before meeting Pablo Picasso and becoming his first significant mistress. She at first refuses him but eventually falls in love with him.

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addapting an RP

A couple of friends of mine and i did a role play a few years ago (and i suppose it's still continuing. we're RPing the prequel now) that we all thought would make a brilliant anime show. it's an original idea (i think) though we took some names from other series while we were writing so those will need to be changed. I've got several episodes already mapped out in my head and i can go back to the old RP threads for more ideas. i can also pick the brains of the friends who RPed the original characters.

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a challenge to myself - blind adaptation

I am so pleased to have moved so quickly, writing 6 completely new (half hour) scripts for my audio drama series (as well as finishing off one that had languished months ago).

So I decided to challenge myself. I pulled five short horror and sci fi stories out of the vast collection at Project Gutenberg (everything at PG is in the pubic domain) and am challenging myself to adapt at least three of them into scripts for my show.

I haven't done more than skim them yet, but most of them come from 1929-1930 issues of Astounding Stories...
:)
Should be... interesting!

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