
103 | Adapting Material (Books, Biographies, and Intellectual Property)
The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna
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What Is Modern Feeling About This?
Yen: When adapting something that's older, be that thee make of a movie or an old book, you do have to ask, why is this modern? And like, let's just say a flea bag was a play. Yen: The other thing to be careful with in an adaptation is to over complicate it and then all of a sudden it's unrecognizable.
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