Agent´s job

[Zenmaster4]

Just to let people know, if u don´t truly feel comfortable with asking the big, hot-shot writer for permission to make a screenplay out of his book, you can just write the script, copyright it, and send it to an agent. If the agent thinks it´s interesting and likes it, it´s his or her job to get the permission. This is meant for the new screenwriters who have no rep.

Z4

 

[MarkG]

On the other hand, you may well just have wasted the months you spent writing the script if you do so without the movie rights... it's always a risk to do an adaption if you don't have the rights sorted out up front.

 

[temerson]

Not to mention that many agents will ask you up front if you have gotten the rights to adapt the work into a screenplay. It's an evil Catch-22 like that, sometimes.

 

[Zenmaster4]

Agree

Agree

Yes, I agree on that statement. However, I guess I was really referring to other adaptations. It is easier to get in contact with a writer rather than, say, a game developer studio. So, anything else like an adpatation of an Anime series, a game, etc. is the agent´s job. Sorry I didn´t say that in the first place.

 

[MarkG]

So, anything else like an adpatation of an Anime series, a game, etc. is the agent´s job.

But Uwe Boll already owns the rights to pretty much all but the most profitable games.