The movies “Killers of the Flower Moon” and “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes” debut this fall, along with the TV series “Lessons in Chemistry.” They have something in common: Each of them is a screen adaptations of a book.
As Brian McAuley tells us, Hollywood today is all about IP, or intellectual property. And that means, before something becomes a movie, it starts as a book or a comic book — you get the idea. And there are pros and cons to that approach.
McAuley is a clinical assistant professor at Arizona State University’s Sidney Poitier New American Film School as well as a screenwriter and novelist himself. And he knows the screen adaptation game well.
The Show spoke with him more about it.
