Why do film/streaming studios have a heighten interest in both your script and a book version of your script? What's in it for writers?
Susan Flanagan, Emmy? Award Winning Writer, Exec. Prod.
BSI Films offers Independents and writers the same professional writing, development, production resources we provide major Hollywood studios, streaming, cable, and broadcast industry clients.
Why film/streaming studios have interest in both your script and a book version of your script: Having both a script and a book version of your script) gives studios 2 sources that makes it easier to create new concepts and content.
Note: This is why sequels and spin-offs to your original script is easier to write and produce in a shorter amount of time. It is for all of the above reasons; studios have a heighten interest in what they call a "multiple script package."
What's in it for writers to have a polished script and book version of their script.
Adapting your script to a book gives writers more than one option for promoting and marketing their script.
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When submitting your script package to film/streaming studios: having a book version of your script included, shows that it is simultaneously, being promoted directly to a domestic and global public for purchase.
Spielberg, Steven King, Michael Mann, and many other credited and new writers are using Adaptation as a major component of their marketing strategy to promote their new and existing scripts.
Keep in mind: To get started with adapting your script to a book, the most important step is completed... your script has already been written.
Sophie Marcelle, Producer, BSI Films
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1 个月A development executive told me that the value behind the script to published book pathway for distribution/streaming is the book provides more in-depth information about the story for multi project opportunities. Build into the book are prequels and sequels. Also because the book is a tried and tested IP. In other words the book has a proven audience that supports the data to validate the script/story.
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5 个月Thank you, Susan. I enjoyed reading this.
Film Producer at SIX NOTCH ROAD PRODUCTIONS
6 个月no my book came first and then my script both are available
Award-winning Screenwriter | Original TV Series Creator & Story Designer
6 个月I already am doing this… ! In both directions— turning my TV series into a novel and turning my novels into feature films.