Post by kirushi on Mar 9, 2010 1:13:30 GMT -5
Hey all, long time reader of the blog and first time poster here.
I've been strongly considering writing up a screenplay on an old novel by a big name author. Big enough that his contact information isn't public (no email, no fax, probably is snail mail but it would get lost in the fanmail or such) so two questions: How would I go about inquiring about the film rights? Try to contact his agent instead? The publisher?
And on a related note, what should such a query letter look like? I assume you want to just be very short and to the point without adding detail for the first letter since its simply "are the film rights to <book> available?"
is "film rights" the proper term?
Thank you much!
I've been strongly considering writing up a screenplay on an old novel by a big name author. Big enough that his contact information isn't public (no email, no fax, probably is snail mail but it would get lost in the fanmail or such) so two questions: How would I go about inquiring about the film rights? Try to contact his agent instead? The publisher?
And on a related note, what should such a query letter look like? I assume you want to just be very short and to the point without adding detail for the first letter since its simply "are the film rights to <book> available?"
is "film rights" the proper term?
Thank you much!
