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Originally Posted by taustin
Heh. You're an optomist. For every movie made, there's a hundred that have money spent putting them in production. For every movie in production, there's a hundred movies that get scripts written. And for every script written, there's probably a thousand books optioned. In many cases, a studio will option a book because they've got something else in production that's similiar, and they want to make sure the book they option isn't turned in to a movie in time to compete.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/.../awaydays-film
Kevin Sampson's account of getting his (brilliant) book made into a (not very great) movie. Warning - will put you off using hedge-trimmers.