How to Adapt a Book into a Movie Script
A practical development workflow for authors and publishers: choose a dramatic spine, build a treatment, and turn prose into scenes.
October 28, 2026 · Jeff Jones
Our editorial home is now The AI Showrunner
The development library continues alongside new film, music, and audience-development coverage.
Visit the Director’s BriefBook-to-screen development
Book-to-Screen Insights
Useful development decisions, explained before you commission a production. Explore how a manuscript becomes a screen story and how to keep its characters and world coherent.
Character Bibles: Keeping AI Film Characters Consistent
A practical guide to character identity, approved references, wardrobe states, voice, and shot-by-shot continuity.
October 28, 2026 · Jeff Jones
Show and Universe Bibles: Building a World That Can Sustain a Series
How to document a series engine, world rules, season arcs, and canon so writers and production teams share the same foundation.
October 28, 2026 · Jeff Jones
Develop your story for the screen
Discuss a paid project with defined deliverables and review milestones: adaptation assessment, treatment, screenplay, character bible, series bible, or cinematic pitch assets.
Discuss Your ProjectStart with a synopsis, intended format, and your relationship to the rights. Please wait to send a full manuscript until we agree on the review process.