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| Philippa Donovan | |
Veteran literary scout Philippa Donovan "wants to reverse engineer the books-to-screen market through her new business, Two Script Studio," Deadline reported, adding that the operation will create "reverse adaptations," allowing producers and screenwriters to turn screenplays into novels at an early stage of development. Book rights will then be pitched to literary agents and publishers to build an audience or developed as underlying IP for the film or TV project.
Donovan will also "help writers rework dormant scripts for publishers, and is offering mentoring where a pitch deck or script is used for narrative structure," Deadline noted. Donovan spent decades working in the U.S., U.K., and Australia, and Two Scripts will be available as a service in those countries. She has run her own business, Smart Quill, since 2011 after a 15-year career as a literary agent, scout, and commissioning editor.
"Two Script draws on my decades of experience in literary scouting, structural editing, and introducing authors to agents," she said. "When I moved from London to L.A. in 2014, I actually planned to facilitate a publishing trajectory for screenwriters, but life got in the way, so I am overjoyed to return to this original vision. It is nothing short of a miraculous alchemy when a book is given a second life on screen, so I think it's high time that books returned the favor."