scenarioize
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editscenarioize (third-person singular simple present scenarioizes, present participle scenarioizing, simple past and past participle scenarioized)
- (dated, transitive) To turn (a story, idea etc.) into a scenario for a play or film.
- 1918, The Moving Picture World, volume 38, number 2:
- It was this kindly old lady that lifted her part into such idealism that it saved from entire disregard the whole story as scenarioized by J. Grubb Alexander.
- 1927, Overland Monthly, volume 85:
- Being the "best-seller" type of story, one recognizes this as valuable material for movie production. Scenarioized, it should net Mrs. St. John many neat thousands.
- 1936, Motion Picture Herald, volume 123:
- Mr. Goldwyn has secured Jules Furthman, by arrangement with Irving Thalberg, of MGM, to scenarioize "Come and Get It."