Comments on: 12 Celebrated Novelists-Turned-Screenwriters And How They Fared

By: Gregory Ross

Gregory Ross — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:12:58 +0000

Confessions of Fraternity Days is a great read and would make an excellent 1980\’s movie.

By: Meh

Meh — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:12:58 +0000

Where are all the women?

By: Eric Rudnick

Eric Rudnick — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:12:58 +0000

Peter Craig – A younger example. Novels: The Martini Shot, Hot Plastic, Blood Father. Screenplays: The Town, upcoming Cowboy Bebop, Bad Boys sequel

Peter Hedges – Wrote What's Eating Gilbert Grape? (Both novel & screenplay), About a Boy/Pieces of April/Dan in Real Life screenplays (also directed those last two), and has written novels & many plays.

By: Paul Hughes

Paul Hughes — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:12:58 +0000

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is not straight non-fiction, but it's far from being a novel. I think you may be confusing "novelist" with "author" âÂ i.e., "writer of fiction" with "writer of books."

By: Helgi JÃ³nsson

Helgi JÃ³nsson — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:12:58 +0000

This kind of writing has me locked in and interested in The Playlist. You keep reminding me of stuff that I thought I had forgotten and you keep bringing more, which is mercurial music to my lovely ears. The Lubitsch piece (which I pdf-ed) a while ago was just such a reminder.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:12:58 +0000

William Peter Blatty!

By: John Bonazzo

John Bonazzo — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:12:58 +0000

What about John Irving, who won an Oscar for adapting his own The Cider House Rules?

By: cirkusfolk

cirkusfolk — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:12:58 +0000

Alex Garland wrote the novels The Beach and The Tesseract before writing his first screenplay, 28 Days Later. Both those novels became movies but weren't written by him.