If You're Looking For Something to Adapt

Blaine

Blaine

Mr. Hollywood
If you're looking for something to adapt that you don't have to pay for (i.e. it's in the public domain) you might want to start here.
 
Jules Verne, HG Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mary Shelley, Agatha Christie, Mark Twain, Jonathan Swift, Jane Austin, Bram Stoker, Herman Melville, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allen Poe, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Rudyard Kipling, JM Barrie, PG Wodehouse, John Milton, Robert Louis Stevenson, L Frank Baum...
 
i love Project Gutenberg! there's a lot of culture to be adapted to film contained therein. :)

from all over the world. from literature so science to philosophy. it's great.
 
Great resource but I wish it gave a synopsis of each book to save the time of having to click through and start reading each one to see if its movie material.

Oh, and does anyone know the legalities of adapting a film based on any of these books that have already been made into movies? For example. Sherlock Holmes is listed but would you be infringing on the copyright of the major studios that have already adapted it for film?
 
dslr_sc said:
Great resource but I wish it gave a synopsis of each book to save the time of having to click through and start reading each one to see if its movie material. Oh, and does anyone know the legalities of adapting a film based on any of these books that have already been made into movies? For example. Sherlock Holmes is listed but would you be infringing on the copyright of the major studios that have already adapted it for film?
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The old stories like Sherlock Holmes and Charles Dickens stories are like rocks-- they have been around forever, are old, fall out the jurisdiction of copyright protection. So SONY PICTURES can paint a face on a rock, but so can I, or you.
 
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