What you bring
A finished novel, and the right to adapt it. The rest is the room’s work.
First, the screen rights
Step 1, required before a seat is used: confirm the screen rights.
You must own or control the screen rights, or the novel must be your own unpublished work.
Do you own or control the screen rights to this novel, or is it your own unpublished work? If not, the conversion stops before a seat is used.
If your book is a memoir or about real people, nothing is added about a real person that your book does not say. Life rights and clearances are a producer’s business, not the room’s.
A finished novel
TSR adapts a complete book: beginning, middle and the ending you chose. It does not finish a novel for you, and it does not adapt a work in progress.
About 50,000 to 120,000 words
A novel under about 50,000 words often holds a short film rather than a feature. We will say so before a seat is used, and we will never pad a draft to reach feature length.
A novel over about 120,000 words holds more than one feature can carry. We will say so before a seat is used; at launch TSR does not split a book across films.
Written in English
TSR adapts novels written in English. Your characters may speak other languages; the screenplay writes their dialogue in English, with a reading note, as produced films do.
A file the room can read
A .docx, or a PDF whose text can be selected (not a scan).
A feature film as the result
At launch TSR adapts novels into feature films. Television belongs to the sister room, The Showrunner’s Room.
Not open yet
The door that will take your file is not built yet. Nothing can be uploaded and nothing is collected here.