Three titles selected for adaptation pitches from Australian creatives.
Wattpad Webtoon Studios, the fan-driven global entertainment and publishing arm of LA-based Webtoon and Toronto’s Wattpad, has partnered again with Australia’s Screen Queensland on a screenplay adaptation initiative.
The new arrangement continues the Australia-first relationship established in 2020 and will support three Queensland-based screenwriters or teams to develop film and series projects based on popular titles from the Wattpad and Webtoon digital platforms.
Wattpad Webtoon Studios and Screen Queensland will provide consultation to the participants to create their pitch and treatment and draft scripts, with a view to potentially securing...
Wattpad Webtoon Studios, the fan-driven global entertainment and publishing arm of LA-based Webtoon and Toronto’s Wattpad, has partnered again with Australia’s Screen Queensland on a screenplay adaptation initiative.
The new arrangement continues the Australia-first relationship established in 2020 and will support three Queensland-based screenwriters or teams to develop film and series projects based on popular titles from the Wattpad and Webtoon digital platforms.
Wattpad Webtoon Studios and Screen Queensland will provide consultation to the participants to create their pitch and treatment and draft scripts, with a view to potentially securing...
- 1/10/2024
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Two Queensland creative teams have each been selected to adapt a story from the Canadian social storytelling platform Wattpad for the screen.
Writer Dominic Morris and producer Nadine Bates from Brisbane production company Like A Photon Creative will make a feature film version of The Bro Code (21.2 million reads) by Elizabeth A. Seibert.
The other team comprises writer Siobhan Domingo and producer Elizabeth Simard, who have been tasked with creating a TV series based on How To Lose Weight and Survive The Apocalypse (236,000 reads) by Australian Kate J. Squires.
It comes after Screen Queensland announced a partnership with Wattpad Webtoon Studios in June last year as part of a $3.3 million Covid response package, launching a development initiative that invited Queensland creatives to come up with adaptations of two Wattpad original young adult titles.
Leveraging stories and insights from Webtoon and Wattpad’s combined audience of more than 166 million people, Wattpad...
Writer Dominic Morris and producer Nadine Bates from Brisbane production company Like A Photon Creative will make a feature film version of The Bro Code (21.2 million reads) by Elizabeth A. Seibert.
The other team comprises writer Siobhan Domingo and producer Elizabeth Simard, who have been tasked with creating a TV series based on How To Lose Weight and Survive The Apocalypse (236,000 reads) by Australian Kate J. Squires.
It comes after Screen Queensland announced a partnership with Wattpad Webtoon Studios in June last year as part of a $3.3 million Covid response package, launching a development initiative that invited Queensland creatives to come up with adaptations of two Wattpad original young adult titles.
Leveraging stories and insights from Webtoon and Wattpad’s combined audience of more than 166 million people, Wattpad...
- 9/15/2021
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
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