"Seven studios rejected the original screenplay. Peter Stone turned it into a novel which was serialized in Redbook, and it was then turned back into a screenplay – which had interest from all 7 studios." Talked the other day with a screenwriter in Stockholm, that told me that Swedish producers these days only buy scripts and ideas based on published novels. That it has gone so far, that screenwriters now turn their scripts to novels and offer to adapt them for the screen. Apparently not only in Sweden.