Farrell failed to mention in the piece that his Rolling Stone article had in fact also been optioned for movie rights, by Fox Searchlight, according to Variety.
As Margie Orford, a successful novelist whose Blood Rose has just been optioned for film, tells me, "The spectre of the past is there - racialised cities and identities, a psycho-geography of violence and spatial separation.
The idea for "Adulting" (which has just been optioned for television by J. J. Abrams, executive producer of the "Lost" series) was refined when Ms. Brown worked as a reporter for the Statesman Journal in Salem, Ore., consulting her Facebook friends for a column about what skills or possessions they should have by the age of 30.
Eventually Dodd began corresponding with journalist Guy Lawson, who wrote a long feature about him for Rolling Stone that has since been optioned for film.
It was optioned for production; it got me meetings with agents and production executives; and as is often the case, got me nothing more.
Televisions shows about women being casually sexual and pornographic novels being optioned for the movies fall in line: they are the big news.
Dawn, the first in a three-book series known as Lilith's Brood or, previously, Xenogenesis, was optioned for TV by Allen Bain's production company, Bainframe in 2015.
"It had been optioned four times," Ms. Andrews said.
And those screenplays that you are alluding to that have been optioned, I have just recently optioned one of my screenplays for the fifth time and that is out there in the world now trying to find a home.
"All I seem to read at the moment is novels that have been optioned or ideas for scripts.
