Film adaptation

Film adaptation is the transfer of the story or details of an existing source text, such as a novel, into a feature film, ranging from close fidelity to the source to using it only as loose inspiration. The practice has been part of filmmaking since cinema's earliest days in nineteenth-century Europe and remains central to the industry, with source material drawn from novels, non-fiction, memoir, comics and graphic novels, religious texts, stage plays, history, television, radio, video games, songs, toys and amusement park rides. Novels are the most common source, and adaptation is generally understood as allowing filmmakers more creative freedom than a remake, including changes to a work's audience or genre. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/