The first vessel
Your Novel, Filmed
Not a trailer. Not a slideshow. A film book — your manuscript cast with voices, scored, lit and cut scene by scene until it plays like cinema. You write nothing new. You own the masters forever.
Reckon it now
- Base production
- $30,000
- $15,000 floor · $0.25/word beyond 30,000
- Finished runtime
- 9h 41m
- 155 words to a minute
- To commission
- $15,000
- half down, or a plan
Music and sound effects are included. Choose additional voices and services in the Forge.
Plus 5% of net receipts from the Drakenscroll-produced edition only. Print, ebook and every edition we did not produce remain outside the covenant.
One matching audio book edition is included with every commissioned film book.
You do not need it all today
You can bring your book to the screen in steps — and this house is built for steps.
Teaser & Chapter One Pilot
$2,500 / $5,000
Begin with a 90-second teaser adapted from up to 1,200 source words for $2,500, or your opening chapter — up to 3,000 words — finished as film: cast, scored and cut. Show it to readers, publishers or prospective backers; funding is never guaranteed. If you open the same property's full film book within 120 days of payment, the cleared Teaser or Pilot fee is credited once toward it. One stepping-stone credit per full commission.
Choose your first productionThe Bronze Plan
$5,000per part, six parts
Your $30,000 film book begins with $5,000, followed by five stage-tied parts (the last absorbs any rounding). One sixth starts the work; the remaining five are due as its stages are completed and shown to you. There is no requirement to pay everything today. Dates are agreed for your production, not promised as a fixed monthly schedule. Final masters remain sealed until the balance clears.
Questions go directly to the Founder at robin@drakenscroll.com or choose Bronze when you seal your Charter in the Forge.
What the house forges
The cast
Narration registers auditioned and cast to your characters — warm, iron, hushed or bright. You hear them before they are yours.
The score
Music selected, cut and mixed to your scenes under licence, so every turn lands where you wrote it.
The atmosphere
Sound effects laid under the picture: doors, weather, blades, breath. The world stops being described and starts being heard.
The picture
Sequenced scene by scene in the house look — firelight, velvet dark, motion that serves the sentence rather than showing off.
Asked before, answered plainly
What is a film book?
A film book is your novel produced as cinema: cast with narration voices, scored, cut to picture and sequenced scene by scene from your existing manuscript. You write nothing new. You receive finished masters you own outright.
How much does a film book cost?
Film book production begins at a $15,000 studio floor including the first 30,000 words, then adds $0.25 per word beyond that baseline. Music, sound effects and one matching audio edition are included. The 5% produced-edition participation is separate.
How long will my film book run?
The house measures 155 words of manuscript to one finished minute — 9,300 words to a finished hour. A 90,000-word novel runs roughly nine hours and forty minutes.
Can I pay in parts?
Yes. Four plans are offered — Platinum (halves), Gold (thirds), Silver (quarters) and Bronze (sixths) — each tied to the visible stages of your build, so coin only moves when work has moved.
Do I keep the rights?
Always. The masters are yours in perpetuity, for sale, streaming, festival submission or your own readership. The house forges; it never owns your story.
Prefer to hear it first? The Reading Room holds the voices. New to the form? Read what a film book is.