It’s a common enough story, but it breaks the hearts of writer types: someone pours his soul into writing a screenplay. And it’s a great screenplay! Fast-moving, high-concept, fresh. But then something gums up the development works, and things grind to a halt. That great screenplay never gets turned into a movie. This is where Adaptive Studios […]
Say you’re a screenwriter with a brilliant idea. You write a script and shop it around. Everyone loves it, but through no fault of your own, you hit a snag. A budget disappears, a contract dispute flares up, and suddenly your high-concept idea gets shelved, then abandoned. All hope is lost, right? Not if Adaptive Studios has anything to do with […]
Sometimes putting hours of creativity, sweat, and tears into writing a screenplay isn’t actually the hardest part of a writer’s job: it’s getting their story off the page and into production. Every year a slew of great screenplays are hoovered into the film industry, only to land in what’s known as “development hell,” a purgatory state between acquisition and actual filming where they can languish […]
It may have crept up slowwwwly as a trend, but YA anthologies are all the rage the days, giving readers a chance to get glimpses of their favorites’ short fiction skills alongside new-to-them names and to get some glorious and diverse variety within the realms of cool themes and topics that don’t get nearly enough […]
E.C. Myers is the author of the Silence of Six series, a topical, tech-drenched thrill ride created in partnership with Adaptive Studios. The series began as a screenplay; Myers has given it new life as fast-paced YA. In The Silence of Six Max Stein, spurred on by the live-broadcast suicide of his hacker best friend, helps uncover a massive […]
