A 300pp novel can easily become a 200pp novel by printing with smaller type; a 100pp screenplay can potentially become a film of between 60-140 minutes in length; a 200pp stage play could be performed in anything from 30 minutes to four hours. For all these media, the script length is agnostic to the final work.
A lot of the time, the scripts you get to read are remakes or reboots or sequels or prequels.
'Skeleton Creek' is like nothing you've ever read before because it's a book and a movie at the same time.
I'm excited about becoming a transmedia storyteller. The idea that we can tell the 'Agent Mom' story online with MTV Comics and build a fan base that we can take over to Paramount to discuss turning that story it into a movie is just awesome.
As soon as you've written it, you're thinking about how it can move into different mediums.
Ultimately, there's always been a link between comic books and video games, and comic books and movies, and then basically all three steadily becoming this sort of transmedia.
If you're going to be adapting something across media, you should at least have the moves that people want you to hit and that you want to hit.
I believe in books. I believe more in 'cross-media' - how characters are adapting across mediums.
