Unfilmability

Unfilmability describes qualities of a literary work, such as aesthetic conventions, audience expectations, technological limits or ethical and political considerations, that make it difficult or seemingly impossible to adapt successfully into film or television; the concept is a form of medium specificity, meaning some features of a work belong to its original medium and resist transfer to another. Works once considered unfilmable but later successfully adapted include The Lord of the Rings, Dune, Watchmen, Gerald's Game and American Psycho. The article credits well-funded, prestige television production in the contemporary Golden Age of Television with making some previously unfilmable works adaptable. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/