For many different reasons authors who adapt their own books into screenplays are not so common. I would appeal to the reknown saying: “zapatero a tus zapatos”. Even though there are some like Nicholas Pileggi (Goodfellas, Casino), Michael Blake (Dancing with Wolves).
It would be unfair to say that an adaptation can not be as good as an original screenplay, I guess because it is a specialty to write one.
In Colombia that country at the south of America where i was born, (I will be mentioning it a lot) Film industry is being possible in our movie theaters. To give an idea of what I´m talking about: 24 movies were produced in the past 3 years and growing (that much ha). Most of the stories come from adaptations. A movie like Maria Full of Grace which screenplay is an original by Joshua Martson, a californian writer, producer, director is an 80% american movie.
Visa U.S.A 1986
