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Originally Posted by punkdeadhead24
One of the reasons there aren't a lot of novel adaptations is because the typical scriptreaders and script buyers at the major film studios aren't too bright.
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Now there are a ton of problems in Hollywood, but this is not one of them. The readers tend to be some of the brightest people in Hollywood. But as you pointed out, they are SCRIPTreaders and SCRIPTbuyers...their job isn't to acquire rights to novels, but to read and buy scripts.
Adapting a novel or story to a script requires the acquisition of rights...which costs money.
Producers will buy the rights when they see a story as marketable. And the producers I know are pretty damn smart as well, but they also tend to be rather cynical about what the market will bear.
That said, I'd love to adapt Iain Bank's
The Wasp Factory Micheal Louis Calvillo's
I Will Rise and Edward Bunker's
Education of a Felon for the screen.