Adaptations:
Books to Movies……Movies to Books
A film
adaptation is the transfer of a written work, in whole or in part, to a feature film.
It is a type of derivative work.
A
common form of film adaptation is the use of a novel as the basis of a feature film.
Other works adapted into films include non-fiction (including journalism),
autobiography,
comic books,
scriptures,
plays,
historical sources, and even other films. From the earliest days of cinema, in
nineteenth century Europe, adaptation from such diverse resources has been a
ubiquitous practice of film-making.
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| Poster of 'Life of Pi' written by Yann Martel, adopted as a film by Ang Lee Source: en.wikipedia.org |
When a
film's screenplay is original, it can also be the source of derivative
works such as novels and plays. For example, movie studios will
commission novelizations of their popular titles or sell
the rights to their titles to publishing houses. These novelized films will
frequently be written on assignment and sometimes written by authors who have only
an early script as their source. Consequently, novelizations are quite often
changed from the films as they appear in theaters.
Novelization
can build up characters and incidents for commercial reasons (e.g. to market a
card or computer game, to promote the publisher's "saga" of novels,
or to create continuity between films in a series)
There
have been instances of novelists who have worked from their own screenplays to
create novels at nearly the same time as a film. Both Arthur C.
Clarke, with 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Graham Greene,
with The Third Man, have worked from their own
film ideas to a novel form (although the novel version of The Third Man
was written more to aid in the development of the screenplay than for the
purposes of being released as a novel). Both John Sayles
and Ingmar
Bergman write their film ideas as novels before they begin producing
them as films, although neither director has allowed these prose treatments to
be published.
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