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01Adapt a book, write a screenplay, or start from an idea.
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03Plan your scenes with visual storyboards and shot lists.
04Create cinematic videos with leading AI models.
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"ADAPT gives me everything I need to turn my ideas into professional films."
Patrick Maddren / Neon Desert Films
Writer / Director / Producer
78,000+ public-domain stories already cleared to be reimagined with AI, including timeless books that became billion-dollar movies and series.
Here are 20 Gutenberg classics already turned into major films and series, proof of what one public-domain story can become.
1Public Domainby L. Frank Baum
The Wizard of Oz (1939), Wicked universe
One of the clearest examples of public-domain story DNA becoming a massive modern franchise.
2Public Domainby Lewis Carroll
Disney's Alice in Wonderland; Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland
Extraordinary example of reimagining world, characters and visual language.
3Public Domainby Rudyard Kipling
Disney animated The Jungle Book; 2016 live-action film
Classic to animation to photoreal remake to franchise. Gutenberg hosts the original text.
4Public Domainby Jane Austen
Pride & Prejudice (2005), BBC series, numerous remakes
Possibly the best case study for adapting the same underlying story repeatedly for different generations.
5Public Domainby Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock (BBC), Sherlock Holmes films, countless series
Characters and world can become an ongoing series engine, not just one movie.
6Public Domainby Mary Shelley
Universal Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, countless reinterpretations
Perhaps the ultimate example of extracting a concept and radically reinventing it.
7Public Domainby Bram Stoker
Dracula, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Dracula TV adaptations
One book has generated an enormous film/TV mythology.
8Public Domainby Louisa May Alcott
1994 film, Greta Gerwig's Little Women (2019), TV adaptations
Strong example of repeated prestige adaptation while retaining the original emotional architecture.
9Public Domainby F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby (2013) starring Leonardo DiCaprio
Great Adapt reference for translating literary tone into highly cinematic visual language.
10Public Domainby Alexandre Dumas
Numerous films/series including The Count of Monte Cristo
Near-perfect revenge/adventure story architecture for film or serialized drama.
11Public Domainby Solomon Northup
12 Years a Slave (2013)
Won Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Gutenberg lists the book as public domain in the U.S.
12Public Domainby J. M. Barrie
Disney's Peter Pan, Hook, Peter Pan & Wendy, many others
Shows how the characters/world can support wildly different reinterpretations.
13Public Domainby William Shakespeare
Romeo + Juliet (1996), West Side Story lineage, countless films
One of the best examples of moving the same fundamental story into completely different eras and cultures.
14Public Domainby Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol, Scrooged, The Muppet Christmas Carol, etc.
Possibly the ultimate Adapt case study: same story skeleton, radically different execution.
15Public Domainby Gaston Leroux
The Phantom of the Opera, stage musical and film adaptations
Excellent example of literary IP spawning film, theatre and musical franchises.
16Public Domainby Washington Irving
Sleepy Hollow film and Fox television series
A short source story expanded into both a feature and multi-season TV concept.
17Public Domainby Edgar Rice Burroughs
Disney's Tarzan plus decades of movies/TV
Fantastic example of converting literary characters into enduring franchise IP.
18Public Domainby L. M. Montgomery
Anne with an E / numerous films and TV series
A strong model for expanding character/world arcs into serialized television.
19Public Domainby Robert Louis Stevenson
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, countless film/TV reinterpretations
Extraordinary concept-level IP: the central premise can be relocated almost anywhere.
20Public Domainby Charles Dickens
Numerous films and BBC/FX adaptations
Strong prestige-drama source with proven feature and limited-series potential.
Public-domain status depends on jurisdiction and edition. Always confirm rights for your territory before adapting.
Original cinematic short films and series from Neon Desert Films, stories built for the screen.
Nantucket, 1851. After Captain Ahab loses his crew to the monstrous white whale Moby Dick, he returns obsessed with revenge and recruits a new crew for one final hunt. What begins as a whaling voyage becomes a brutal battle of survival, obsession and vengeance on the open sea.
8 Episode Series
A gritty Wall Street drama inspired by true events, following a 23-year-old navigating the ruthless world of New York stockbrokers. From million-dollar deals and fast money to drugs, corruption, and betrayal, he discovers a world where ambition has no limits, loyalty is rare, and fortunes can change overnight.
8 Episode Series
Torn from his pregnant wife and forced into slavery, Spartacus rises from the brutal gladiator arenas of Rome to lead an army of rebels against the most powerful empire in the world. Driven by vengeance, love, and freedom, he fights a war that will become legend.
They weren't born to be heroes. They were all that was left. When a ragtag crew of survivors becomes humanity's last line of defense against an alien invasion, some missions choose you.
A Neon Desert Films Original
Man created life. Then life turned against man.
Films by Neon Desert Films. ADAPT is not affiliated with these productions.
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