The Art of Screen Adaptation

#8216;If you decide to adapt a classic or much-loved book, your working maxim should be, #8220;How will it work best as a film?#8221; However faithful it is to the original, if it's not interesting onscreen then you've failed.' #8211; William Boyd in Story and Character: Interviews with British ScreenwritersHollywood. Netflix. Amazon. BBC. Producers and audiences are hungrier than ever for stories, and a lot of those stories begin life as a book #8211; but how exactly do you transfer a story from the page to the screen? Do adaptations use the same creative gears as original screenplays? Does a true story give a project more weight than a fictional one? Is it helpful to have the original author's input on the script? And how much pressure is the screenwriter under, knowing they won't be able to please everyone with the finished product?Alistair Owen puts all these questions and many more to some of the top names in screenwriting, including Hossein Amini...