Navigating Adaptations

Webinars ~ Craft Series
Hosted By:
Kevin Nicklaus - Head of Film & TV, Tapas Ent.
$34.00

How do you take interesting stories that already exist as books or life histories and turn them into compelling scripts? Kevin Nicklaus is back by popular demand to help you figure out how to adapt a story for film. Many people want to tell a story from their own life or from that of a historical figure but don't know how much or how little to tell. Sometimes you loved the story in a book but the freedom feels restricted when adapting to a script. Kevin is going to give tips and techniques to keep in mind when adapting stories of any kind!

This 90-min. Webinar Will Cover:

  • The importance of thematic unity
  • The difference between being true to fact and true to the story
  • How to properly adapt a story from your life
  • The correct format that your adaptation will fit in
More about
Kevin Nicklaus
Head of Film & TV
Tapas Ent.

Kevin Nicklaus is an executive with a background in film and television development leading Tapas comic IP into film and Television. Currently, he is working with such partners as A+E Studios, Disney Branded, Weed Road, 3Pas and Madison Wells Media on actively pitching film and TV concepts based on Tapas IP.

Most recently with a production company based at Warner Bros., responsible for the department, but with a personal focus on film, television, podcasts and video games. His previous work has also helped to produce series such as BATES MOTEL (A&E) and PENN & TELLER: BULLSHIT (Showtime) and event limited series such as the recent, reimagined, Emmy-nominated ROOTS (History, A&E, Lifetime), which featured Rege-Jean Page, Laurence Fishburne, Forest Whitaker, and Anika Noni Rose and was produced with Will Packer and LeVar Burton, Stephen King’s SALEM’S LOT (TNT), THE MISTS OF AVALON (TNT), HELTER SKELTER (CBS), SYBIL (CBS), A WILL OF THEIR OWN (NBC), THE BAD SEED (Lifetime) and more.

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