Hi all!
I just posted the first draft for my adaption of the musical of Rent. I kind of always hated the 2005 film and said I'd do it differently. I've been toying with screenwriting for a while and I finally did the thing and wrote a screenplay. I'd love for any and all feedback. :)
It's up on my logline page. Let me know what you think.
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1) i loved the 2005 movie.
2) unless you have somehow gotten the rights, adapting it is just this side of pointless (other than having fun).
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Travis Seppala i would disagree with your 2nd point. a great counter example is how in 2016/17(?), an unknown, un-repped, un-everything USC film student Evan Romansky wrote pilot adaptation of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest called Ratched. He had no rights, but the pilot (i read it in my first ever industry internship at Fox) was so clean and well-written, it got passed around, bought, and eventually made into a show by Ryan Murphy for Netflix. Think there's totally room for a Rent TV adaption, but @Alex Cohen would need a really strong new angle to make it happen, much like Ratched. So wouldn't call it totally pointless, because it has been done fairly recently.
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Travis Seppala just my opinion! I thought the movie was too "glossy" and lost a lot of the gritty appeal of the original production. Overall, it just felt like a series of music videos to me. Most of my writing really is a creative outlet for fun for me as well.