Who recommends books to be made into movies?

Question

Are there such agents or review panels? Studio people themselves? How would you go about getting a book considered?

Answer 1

Nobody does. Either an author sends a script to a producer or director or someone in the movie industry happens to read the book and like it and decide to buy the rights. Sometimes a friend or relative will tell a producer "I just read this great book and you have to make this movie!!!" Or an agent will shop the book around Hollywood for an author. Quite often, a producer or director (or even an actor) will buy the rights to a book and it will sit around for years awaiting development and the rights will run out and the movie never gets made. That happens all the time. Pax - C

Answer 2

The Kite Runner Nights In Rodanthe The Notebook A Walk To Remember The English Patient Under the Tuscan Sun The Davinci Code Where the Heart Is The Bridges of Madison County Marley and Me A Series of Unfortunate Events The Outsiders Ella Enchanted The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants The Princess Diaries Gone With the Wind To Kill A Mockingbird Harry Potter Twilight A Time To Kill The Green Mile The Golden Compass Eragon Chronicles of Narnia The Color Purple Their Eyes Were Watching God Memoirs of A Geisha The Hunt For Red October The Shawshank Redemption Pride and Prejudice Emma Persuasion Sense and Sensibility Mansfield Park Northanger Abbey A Christmas Carol The Wizard of Oz Peter Pan The Red Badge of Courage The Prince and the Pauper Pollyanna Anne of Green Gables Love Comes Softly Little Women The Scarlet Letter The House of the Seven Gables Lost Horizon Goodbye, Mr. Chips The Story of Dr. Wassell Dracula Phantom of the Opera Jane Eyre The Stand Carrie Pet Sematary The Shining Message In A Bottle Patriot Games The Great Gatsby Old Yeller Tuck Everlasting

Answer 3

It's almost automatic. Every new book is given coverage and sent in to all the studios.

But keep in mind as one author stated. The studios buys but never makes. Once they buy it has to be re-sold.

Answer 4

actually there are people that read your book or play or watever first. I can't remember what they're called but they read your piece and decide if it's theater worthy. Then they give their opinion to the film company and they decide wether to do it or not.