The phrase "a screenplay from the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a screenplay that originates from a specific source, such as a book, a play, or a particular writer.
Example: "The film is based on a screenplay from the acclaimed author of the original novel."
Alternatives: "a script by the" or "a script derived from the".
For The Stepford Wives, William Goldman provided a screenplay from the surreal novel by Ira Levin, with Newman as the figure who became the computerised fantasy of boorish men in a small American town.
Several years ago he commissioned a screenplay from the playwright Richard Nelson for a feature film he wants to make about Balanchine in his youth, Sergei Diaghilev, and the Ballets Russes.
She bought a screenplay from the famous novelist and screenwriter Bao Tianxiao, rented a studio space belonging to the Minxin Film Company, hung up a plaque for the self-named "Hanlun Film Company," and began work on Revenge of an Actress/Blind Love (1929).
To bind these themes into a melancholy love story about a French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) who has a brief affair with a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada), Mr. Resnais commissioned a screenplay from the writer Marguerite Duras, then one of the emerging stars of the "nouveau roman" movement, which was challenging literary narrative conventions.
Goldwyn had been disenchanted with the work of blank verse that Kantor had produced, but an initially reluctant Sherwood crafted a screenplay from the novel that Wyler transformed into the box-office hit The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), which made more money than any other movie to that point in history except Gone With the Wind (1939).
A screenplay from the Coens suggests good things (although, well, the same could have been said for Unbroken) and a cast that includes Oscar winner Tom Hanks, Oscar nominee Amy Ryan and a rare screen appearance from Mark Rylance, makes this one sound like a frontrunner.
The book was a success, and Uris was hired to write a screenplay from it; the movie adaptation appeared in 1955.
Originally a screenplay from Jay Levy from December 2010, the story is also being used by Amazon to try something else: more crowdsourced creation.
This dance was set in motion by a screenplay from Kazuo Ishiguro, whose novel The Remains of the Day was made into an Oscar-winning film by Merchant-Ivory in 1993.
The film will be produced by Swedish-Australian Jan Marnell and Australian producers Marian Macgowan and Peter Herbert, with Danish executive producer Ole Søndberg (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Swedish executive producer Lars Weiss, and a screenplay from Petter Skavlan, who wrote the Oscar-nominated 2012 film Kon-Tiki.
