Novel → Film treatment · From FluidScriptr

Producers don’t read novels first.
They read the treatment.

Optioned reads your whole book and writes the document a producer, agent or contest reader actually asks for: a film treatment of your story, start to finish, ending included — plus a coverage card and a ready-to-send submission pack.

Get my treatment — $49 See a sample

One book, one price. No subscription, no account to set up first.

Whole bookRead cover to cover

10–20 pagesSized to your novel

Word + PDFReady to send

Example

THE STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE

Film treatment · from the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson

LOGLINE

A respected London doctor who secretly frees his worst self with a potion discovers, too late, that the monster no longer needs the drug to come out.

ACT ONE

A Sunday walk through London’s back streets. The lawyer GABRIEL UTTERSON, dry, loyal, slow to judge, strolls with his kinsman Enfield, who stops at a battered door and tells a story: a small, repellent man trampled a child here, then paid the family off with a cheque drawn on one of the most respected names in London…

Opening of a sample treatment, built from a public-domain novel.

What you get

Everything a reader needs to say yes to your book.

A treatment is a short, present-tense telling of your story as a film. It’s the first thing most producers and managers ask to see — and the hardest thing for a novelist to write about their own book.

Film treatment Main

Logline, short pitch, your main characters, and the full story told in three acts — including the ending, because a treatment that hides it gets passed on. Then tone, comparable films, and notes on adapting it for the screen.

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Coverage card

The kind of one-page verdict a studio reader writes: what’s strong, what a producer will worry about, and who the audience is. Useful before you send — so the first honest read isn’t from someone who can say no.

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Submission pack

A one-page pitch, a rights and contact block with your name on it, and a check of the treatment against your book that flags anything it got wrong. Everything you need for a query, in one file.

WordPDF

Why it gets your story right

It reads the whole book. Then it writes.

Most AI tools skim the start of a book and guess the rest. That’s how you get a treatment with the wrong ending, a villain who changed names, or a twist that never happened.

Optioned reads your novel in order, from the first page to the last, taking notes as it goes — who’s related to whom, who did what, what’s revealed and when, and exactly how it ends. Only then does it write, working from those notes.

When it finishes, it checks its own treatment against your book and tells you if anything doesn’t match. It’s the same reading engine behind FluidScriptr’s novel-to-screenplay tool.

Before it writesReads
everything

Who’s who, and how they’re connected

Who did what, in what order

Reveals and twists, where they land

The ending, exactly as written

A final check against your book

The flow

From finished novel to submission pack in five steps.

Upload

Drop in your novel — PDF, Word or plain text.

Read

Optioned reads the whole book and takes notes.

Write

The treatment and coverage card, sized to your book.

Check

It compares the treatment to your book and flags slips.

Send

Download Word or PDF and add your submission pack.

Straight talk

What Optioned is — and isn’t.

It’s a first draft you should read before you send. It gets the big things right — names, family ties, the ending — but on a long book it can still blur a small detail. The built-in check catches many of these, not all. Ten minutes with your own book fixes the rest.
It isn’t a screenplay. A treatment sells the idea; a screenplay is the movie on paper. If you want the full script, that’s FluidScriptr.
It can’t promise anyone will option your book. No tool can. What it does is put your story in the form the people who option books expect to read.

Pricing

One book. One price.

No subscription, no monthly fee, no API key. Pay once and get the treatment, the coverage card and the submission pack for that book.

Per book

Optioned

^$49

You’ve finished a novel. You want the document that gets it read.

Full film treatment, ending included
Coverage card
Submission pack: pitch, rights block, book check
Word and PDF downloads
Reads novels up to about 300,000 words

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When they ask for the script

Need the screenplay too?

FluidScriptr turns the same novel into a full, industry-format screenplay that opens in Final Draft. Treatment to pitch it, screenplay to close it.

See FluidScriptr — from $99

Common questions

Things writers ask.

What is a film treatment?

A treatment tells your story the way the film would play it: in the present tense, scene by scene, in plain prose rather than script format. It’s usually 10 to 20 pages. Producers, managers and many screenwriting contests ask for one before they’ll read a book or a script, because it shows in twenty minutes whether the story works on screen.

Why does it give away my ending?

Because that’s what the industry expects. A treatment isn’t a book blurb — the person reading it is deciding whether to spend money on your story, and they need to know how it ends to judge that. A treatment that teases instead of tells is one of the most common reasons they get passed on.

How long is the treatment?

It scales with your book. A novella comes back at roughly 10 double-spaced pages; a long novel closer to 20. Bigger stories get more room for the middle act, where most of the plot lives.

What files can I upload?

PDF, Word (.docx or .doc) or plain text. Your PDF needs real text in it — a scanned book made of page photos can’t be read, and Optioned will tell you if that’s the problem. You can also paste the text in directly.

How accurate is it?

On real novels we’ve tested, it gets the people, their relationships, the major events and the ending right. On a long book it can still drop or blur a smaller moment. The submission pack includes a check against your book that flags what it finds — but you know your book best, so read the treatment once before you send it.

Who owns what it writes?

You do. It’s your story, and the treatment, coverage and pitch are yours to edit, send and use however you like. We never publish or sell your book. It’s sent to our AI provider only to write your treatment, and it isn’t used to train AI.

How is this different from FluidScriptr?

FluidScriptr writes the full screenplay — every scene, in industry format. Optioned writes the shorter document that comes before it: the treatment you send to get someone interested. Many writers start with Optioned to test the waters, then use FluidScriptr when someone asks for the script.

Producers don’t read novels first.They read the treatment.