Bluefish Studio · Paid service

From book to screenplay. Without losing the soul in translation.

Adaptation is not transcription. It is the difficult business of deciding what the film is really about, what must change and what must never be lost.

Writer-led, tool-aware

AI can produce pages. It cannot take responsibility for the story.

Bluefish Studio uses modern tools where they genuinely improve research, continuity and workflow. The adaptation itself remains an accountable creative process led by screenwriter Simon Saunders: dramatic judgement, structure, character, voice, scene craft and repeated rewriting. No magic button. No algorithmic porridge served as a screenplay.

From £950

Adaptation Assessment

A close read of the book, screen potential, audience, structural risks, rights position and a candid recommendation on whether to proceed.

From £3,500

Treatment & Adaptation Blueprint

A screen-focused story architecture: format, point of view, character arcs, omissions, combinations, set pieces and a detailed treatment.

Typically £15,000–£25,000

Feature Screenplay Adaptation

A professional feature screenplay developed in stages, including the first draft and one agreed revision pass. Final scope follows the assessment.

From £2,500

Pitch & Packaging Materials

Logline, synopsis, creator statement and pitch-deck copy shaped for serious industry conversations. Design and trailer production quoted separately.

A staged commission

Spend sensibly. Prove the adaptation before funding a full draft.

Rights and fit checkYou must own or control the screen-adaptation rights. We confirm the brief and whether Bluefish is the right fit.
Paid assessmentWe test the material honestly. If the answer is “not yet”, you learn that before spending screenplay money.
Treatment approvalThe cinematic version is agreed before the full screenplay begins.
Draft and revisionMilestone delivery, clear notes and defined revision boundaries. Further rewrites are quoted separately.

Request an assessment

Send the premise, genre, word count and rights position.

Prices are indicative and exclude underlying rights, legal work, travel, third-party design, production and representation. No promise of sale or production is implied.

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