He wrote another espionage series adaptation, A Perfect Spy (1987), as well as screenplays for the film Agatha (1979) and for the TV Rebecca in 1997.
Morgan became the guv'nor of the docudrama or "faction" genre with biographical projects including the stage play and film Frost/Nixon, and the screenplays The Deal and The Queen, which imagined Tony Blair's dealings with Gordon Brown and The Queen respectively.
A buddy comedy about a 17-year-old boy guided by a hologram of himself as an adult, it made the prestigious Black List of unproduced screenplays three years ago, before being touched up by (500) Days of Summer's Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber.
Inside the bulging filing cabinet Clapp also found an unproduced version of Frank Wedekind's Lulu, the libretto of an unfinished opera based on Virginia Woolf's surreal novel Orlando and several screenplays.
Any script in the genre of "faction" has to speculate, conflate and invent dialogue, but Morgan's screenplays claim extreme leeway.
Rob Ritchie was Literary Manager at the Royal Court Theatre before moving into television as Script Associate at Channel 4. As a writer, his screenplays include Leave to Remain[Film Four], and the award winning drama-documentary Who Bombed Birmingham? [Granada/HBO].
Users thus unwittingly sent half-finished screenplays, unsent letters and private diary jottings to their friends, sometimes with embarrassing results.
The books that made her best screenplays (especially E.M. Forster's "A Room with a View" and "Howards End", for which she won Oscars, and Kazuo Ishiguro's "The Remains of the Day") were studies in repressed English manners.
Gary Goldman, a writer picketing outside Fox Studios who has worked on science-fiction thrillers such as "Minority Report", says that many writers will spend their free time working on screenplays that they hope to sell to the studios on spec. "I think we're allowed to do that," he says.
All but one of the screenplays have been written by Steve Kloves.
There are parallels with Ms Jhabvala's previous work, which includes 12 novels and the screenplays for several Merchant Ivory films, among them "A Room with a View" and "Howards End".
