Rights & Adaptation Guidance

Understand your rights position.

Before exploring adaptation, it helps to know who holds the screen rights to your book and what common agreements such as options involve.

Phoenix provides general, non-legal guidance to help you understand the landscape and prepare questions. For contracts or legal advice, consult a qualified entertainment lawyer. Book-to-screen work is exploratory. Phoenix helps you prepare and pursue opportunities, but no service can guarantee representation, adaptation, sale, financing, production or placement.

What Phoenix can help with

• Rights Position Review

  Clarify, from your publishing agreements, where screen rights may sit.

• Common Terms Explained

  Plain-language overview of options, rights and typical deal elements.

• Questions to Ask

  A checklist to take to a lawyer or agent.

Useful if you're

• Novelists with a standalone or series
• Non-fiction authors with a true or narrative story
• Published and self-published authors
• Authors exploring film or television for the first time
• Authors with existing adaptation interest who need materials

How it works

1. 01

   Tell us about your book

   Share your book, stage, audience, timeline and the help you're looking for.

2. 02

   We review your goals

   Our team looks at what you want to achieve and where your book is today.

3. 03

   We recommend the right approach

   You get a clear recommendation, scope and custom quote — no obligation.

4. 04

   We create or execute the work

   Once you approve the plan, our specialists deliver the work and keep you updated.

5. 05

   We review the next steps with you

   We go through what was delivered and whether there's a sensible next stage.

Why Phoenix

Phoenix looks at your project as a whole and discusses the support that fits your goals. Contact us to discuss the service, requirements and next steps.