by Ferdinand Gernandt | Nov 5, 2026 | Book & Life Story to Screen
“People keep telling me my life would make a great film.” I hear that most weeks. Sometimes they are right. But “you have been through a lot” and “this is a film” are two different sentences, and the gap between them is where most...
by Ferdinand Gernandt | Nov 5, 2026 | Book & Life Story to Screen
Your book is finished. People love it. Someone said the words out loud: “This should be a film.” So you look it up, and the internet tells you to send your novel to Netflix. Do not do that. Here is what actually happens, step by step. First, the hard truth...
by Ferdinand Gernandt | Nov 5, 2026 | Book & Life Story to Screen
Somebody will write your screenplay for $75. Somebody else will charge you $75,000. Same page count. Same 110 pages. Same font. So what are you actually paying for? I have been a produced screenwriter for twenty-five years. I have seen what the cheap end does to...
