Books to the Big Screen: Alec Roth on Adapting an Author’s Story Into Film
Alec Roth grew up in Hollywood — the son of screenwriter Eric Roth, watching his father adapt books into films from a home office — and he’s now doing the same thing from his own side of the table. In this Author Hour conversation with Lex Statzer, Alec talks about what it actually takes to turn a book into a movie, why he believes “great intellectual property, your stories, they win the day, no matter what,” and how a Scribe author’s book landed on his desk and is now becoming a feature film.
That book is Candler Cook’s From Underdog to Bulldog, the true story of a walk-on’s improbable…
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