How would you feel if your original work gets adapted into a film or show?

[Yanrima~]

Imagine if you're a writer, creator, or game developer and the filmakers or showrunners found your work interesting so they wanted to adapt it into a film or a tv show. How would you feel about it? And would you intervene with the production?

For me, i would just consult them on how it should feel or how they would get the general atmosphere of the work that it's based on. A bit of creative liberties is fine by me of course.

Edit: If it's the fans doing fan-made adaptations, I'll fully support it along with their creative freedom to do whatever since fans do content like this for the sake of appreciation.

 

[bestfriendsally]

if it were my comic that i'm trying to work on (it's still on the world-building & characters stage currently), i'd be enthusiastic if it were adapted into a tv series/anime

i'd probably preferably want it to be a almost ... if all... faithful adaption, though....

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just a ref of the main character, paprika

(i'm stupid when it comes to trying to write a comic script...
i've never done a full-on comic script, darn it! >.< )

 

[Halloqueen]

I'm planning to release books in the future that I hope might become popular enough to garner adaptations.

I feel like I would want to be involved in any such project.

 

[Rosch]

That would be AMAZING!!! I've always dreamed that our videogame hits mainstream someday. An animated series (not live actions) would be great.

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

I’d be flattered that someone liked my work so much that they want to make an adaptation of it.

 

[Tude]

I'M GONNA BE RICHHHHHHHHHHH

 

[Chris]

I'd be excited but also anxious that they would do a terrible job.

 

[BetsySundrop]

If i ever had something adapted, it'd be from something I've written. I think if it was something important to me, I'd be really worried that the point would be lost, or it wouldn't come out right, etc.

If it was something not that important, i guess it'd be fun to let someone else have at it.

 

[-Apples-]

I’ll have to supervise production if that were to happen.

 

[Stella-Io]

If it were fanmade and they weren't making any sort of money off of it, I would be fine with it and if they asked gladly offer them help regarding things like lore or descriptions. I would give them more leniency too cause I want to see their interpretation of it. I'd also ask they credit (thou this is mandatory) me somehow and link me a video or somethin so I can see it.

If it were an actual company that is going to make money off of it and broadcast it to a larger audience, I def need to be involved like 100%. A company is not free to interpret my work how they want and I may not even allow a company to do that, weather it be film, drawn, ect... I feel like the stuff I write about isnt for everyone and with how prominent social media is and certain circles who speak too loudly sometimes, I don't want somethin bad to happen. Nor do I want the backlash that comes from it. My current 2 'univeres', Splinters & the OutSmart series (it has 2 parts) touch on some not so light hearted topics so automatically the rating is gonna be like, PG 17 or somethin.

I would need to be involved in every single aspect; art direction/narration, casting, direction, ect... Very few of my characters have any sort of voice claim but I have a general idea of how I would want them to sound. If Splinters was made into somethin with audio, I have a character who's voice claim is the guy who voices Belethor, along with various other Skyrim and I think some Fallout NPCs, Stephen Russell.

Overall though, I don't think I would let a company touch my works cause I would admittedly need to be a control freak when it comes to my stuff.

 

[pottercrossing]

Having Through the Wreckage on screen is a dream

I would be 100 percent involved with the production, I don't want what happened with the PJO movies to happen to me...

Fanworks (as long as they aren't making a profit) are fine, they just have to credit me and the original work.

 

[VernalLapin]

Honestly, terrified. I'm not sure I would want so many eyes on my work.

 

[AccfSally]

I don't know, I'm afraid that it may go into the wrong hands and the whole meaning would be strip to some plain / generic Hallmark-like movie with teenage protags. (even though I like them).

 

[ShadowLelouch97]

I think I'd be excited, but the reaction and feeling I get afterward would depend on how the studio handles it. Great books and comics have had terrible movie adaptations and shows after all.

 

[ShawnFuzz]

Unfortunately writers give up their control at some point. If it were me, I would be honored to have my work made into a series, movie, etc..

Writers get screwed regularly. The hope is that the producers do a good job.

 

[Neb]

I’ve had dreams where the book I’m writing was turned into a movie. I dreamt that I flew to Hollywood to work on it and I had cinematic dreams where certain scenes were being played out by actors.

I would be open to my work being adapted in reality, but I would want to be heavily involved with it to make sure it’s at least somewhat faithful to the source material. The thought of my work being heavily changed without my involvement to appease investors scares me.

 

[Chronos314_XD]

Ha ha hell no. My ideas are terrible lol I would be terrified to see them be adapted and have so many eyes on them.

 

[-Blue-]

I've written lots of stories and it's one of my hobbies I enjoy a lot. Some are better than others and I'm sure if it was animated or filmed properly it would be decent. I just don't see it happening lol, but hypothetically that would be pretty cool. I hope to animate short parts one day and share, but I'm far from there with my art skills.

 

[Millysaurusrexjr]

I'm not a writer/game dev/etc, but I daydream stories all the time. If I ever did turn one of those daydreams in to a story and it got picked up to be a movie or show, I think I would want the movie or show to be as terrible as possible, in every way. That way it would match how terrible my story would be and it would hopefully be so bad that it's good

 

[Giddy]

As a writer, this is what I do desire for a lot of my work to become~!
I think it's because of this, that I would like to write my novels and make scripts of said novel as well. I just write more story like than script, it's been so long since I've wrote a script, it's not that hard, it's just adding in the right layout and pointers to describe the scene that make it longer. I should really write more scripts.

I've studied film, and know enough that books becoming scripts/films will have some changes. This could be the limit of how long the series/film can be (series even worse, depending on it's under you might have enough for a few seasons and then suddenly scrapped. One day Infinity Train will get it's 8 seasons like it wanted), the budget, time on set when filming. If they can't get a scene done in time, it could get scrapped so they can continue moving onto the next scene if its not a majot scene needed. Or even as others said, letting the director call the shots which is usually fine, but due to that certain things can change.

It all depends on the company that wanrs to pick up your ideas, and what the contract says about the creator getting involved via production and post production.

Fanmade wise, I would be deeply honoured. The dedication and motivation to get anything like that done for a work of art should always be supported.