Jade Green

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I was wondering about this, but were there times that your books had been optioned as film projects but were never made, but I was wondering if Jade Green was ever optioned as a film project to a studio or was it left alone. Because though I don’t have enough money to license an option as a film, but also you’d be surprised that I found this book when I (still currently) volunteer at Five Oaks Middle School, there were free books and I looked at them and looked at this book that I thought wanting to read but after finishing reading a book, I felt I should adapt it into a screenplay that remains of what is written from the mind of the author. I tried to adapt John Saul’s Creature, it failed because I couldn’t do it justice as I was writing a draft with the use of Richard Matheson’s screenplay and the Saul novel, it was a mess, I couldn’t do justice. But when I found Jade Green at Five Oaks, that it was deleted from the library, I found the synopsis to be very interesting and promising. I always look for books that been published in the past decades, I always been interested in it that it would have a feeling that I would like to adapt it as a screenplay that it would remain true to what the author had in mind, not creatively do my own thing and cut things, I hated that. There’s a script of The Witching Hour with Anne Rice’s name on it that it’s circulating online and I don’t trust it because I rather go deep and find the original screenplay that I found that had been sold on a auction which was way longer than the one online that was said to be 120-something pages, but I think with an author’s way to write a screenplay, I assume to think the pages may be longer in their early draft. That’s just me. But I wish somewhere I can write a screenplay when I get a chance to read the book from start to finish, even though I don’t have a lot of money to option the book for a feature film. I hope I’m not wasting your time with my long paragraph of wondering if I can write a screenplay based on the novel of Jade Green: A Ghost Story.

Phyllis replied:

I’m glad you liked the book so much.  Often options are taken on some of my books for a screenplay, but never become a movie.  I don’t write screenplays myself or handle the business part of my writing.  But I’m sure my agent would not give you permission to write a screenplay of Jade Green without your taking an option on it–someone else might come along to pay for an option, and then you would be out all that work.  Keep working on your own writing skills and take some courses in screen writing. All writers have to start somewhere and I wish you a lot of luck.