The phrase "a screenplay of the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific screenplay that is based on a particular source material or concept.
Example: "The film is a screenplay of the novel written by the acclaimed author."
Alternatives: "a script based on the" or "a script derived from the".
A screenplay of the revered American children's author Judy Blume's 1981 novel, Tiger Eyes, is also in development, as is one of the novels from Pullman's Sally Lockhart children's adventure series.
Wes Craven, the director of "Scream," even made an installment of his "Nightmare on Elm Street" series in which the characters use a screenplay of the movie they're in to outwit the series' monster -- and that's scary, too.
By Lillian Ross and Brendan Gill The New Yorker, March 5 , 1955P. 26 Talk story about Joseph Hayes, author of hit play "The Desperate Hours," & the best-selling novel on which the play is based, & of a screenplay of the same name, already filmed & scheduled to be released next year.
She is also working on a screenplay of The Winter Ghosts, her stand-alone novella published in 2009.
At nearly that very same time, a screenplay of "The Missing" started circulating around town.
Shue had begun work on a screenplay of "The Foreigner" for Walt Disney Studios.
The setting and some details have changed — the previous David was a mathematician, writing a scholarly book instead of a screenplay on the Battle of Stalingrad — but the story and the characters are fundamentally the same.
Roger's story is told in the form of notes, picture files, emails and even a screenplay, of which Alec, the librarian, is a kind of curator.
In 1989, he wrote a screenplay of his novel Why the Whales Came, set in the Scilly Isles during the first world war.
"If you were to write a screenplay of her life, that's the catalyst for the story," Fugate told me.
James Barrie is thought to have written a screenplay of Peter Pan while on Eilean Shona, the private island off the west coast of Scotland.
