If a studio approached you ...

[ElectricBlue]

I don't think my stories would translate well to porn, but I've got a few that would translate pretty well to a Tinto Brass short flick, like Ultimo Metro that @SimonDoom introduced me to a couple of years ago.

I can picture Ruby from https://www.literotica.com/s/garter-belts-and-cigarettes in one of those short films.

 

[TadOverdon]

Whichever one they offered the most money for.

 

[Rustyoznail]

Whichever one they offered the most money for.

True, very true.

 

[AchtungNight]

Whichever one they offered the most money for.

I don’t use this standard. Money is fine, but it’s not a goal of mine to have a lot of it. Mostly because I know it wouldn’t last long if I ever do again.

 

[alohadave]

I had a game company approach me about adapting Cheerleader and the Peeper to a text based game.

They looked legit, but I declined the offer.

 

[AchtungNight]

I had a game company approach me about adapting Cheerleader and the Peeper to a text based game.

They looked legit, but I declined the offer.

Yeah, there are some stories that really aren’t worth increased attention or certain forms of attention (I think Cheerleader and the Peeper is a good story, but yeah, I wouldn’t play a game based on it, meanwhile some other stories out there are just ugh). And if the studio in question wanted to adapt my story into something I couldn’t stomach- like an adaptation of Courtney Crowe where she wins- that would not fly with me under any circumstance. Just like I’m sure AA Milne is spinning in their grave over certain adaptations of his Winnie the Pooh tales right now. And if he’s not, he’s a stronger creator than me.

 

[yowser]

House of Doors. I'm guessing filming in Argentina would be less than many other places, and I'd love to advise on the music (begins with a milango, includes some gypsy guitar work, haunting sounds..) but the casting costs would be ruinous. Main drawback is that it has a plot.

 

[NotWise]

Do they make feature-length porn flicks any more?

A LIttle Dirty, a Little Bit Salty has the story, the characters, and the sex for a feature-length movie. They'd probably want to write around the kinda slow "meet the family" scene.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Now there's an oxymoron, if ever I saw one

There were films - decades ago - like Behind the Green Door and the The Devil In Miss Jones. I saw the latter (see Viewing My First Porn Movie). It was overall a mediocre movie and as "arousing" porn, it was tiresome by the end. The plot was ridiculous, the acting was minimal, and the production values were very basic. What was supposed to the entrance to purgatory or whatever was filmed at Harry Reems' house (a very nice one) in Westchester County, New York.

 

[NotWise]

There were films - decades ago - like Behind the Green Door and the The Devil In Miss Jones. I saw the latter (see Viewing My First Porn Movie). It was overall a mediocre movie and as "arousing" porn, it was tiresome by the end. The plot was ridiculous, the acting was minimal, and the production values were very basic. What was supposed to the entrance to purgatory or whatever was filmed at Harry Reems' house (a very nice one) in Westchester County, New York.

I've seen relatively recent French films that could qualify as feature length porn. One of them ("Sex Stories" in its English translation) inspired my story "Finding the Fourth Girl."

 

[gunhilltrain]

They do. But it's very specific studios and it's not common. It's much easier to just film a vanilla sex scene and tag it with "stepbro" or "stepsis" or "stepmom."

Their are some films that are rated R that may have NC-17 director's cut released later. Incest shows up in films like Spanking the Monkey and Savage Grace (the latter supposedly based on a true story). I have seen Savage Grace, and the one sex scene was enough to make it R-rated but it fell short of true porn.

What was Lust, Caution rated?

 

[KeithD]

It's hard to pick, but maybe this GM one set in the French Riviera from before to after WWII:

"Clouds over Antibes" (which placed in the 2022 Valentine's Day contest)

https://www.literotica.com/s/clouds-over-antibes

Or maybe, "Fire Down the Valley," a GM about the rarely mentioned war between the cattlemen and sheep herders in the American West (the mainstream version of which won a writing contest):

https://www.literotica.com/s/fire-down-the-valley-ch-01

It's really hard to pick, as I'm always thinking about how this would work as a movie when I write one of my longer works.

 

[gunhilltrain]

This is why the Internet was invented. Lust, Caution was one of those films that has both R and NC-17 versions. What was changed was relatively small. Last Tango in Paris was always X and later NC-17.

So how do you define "explicit" versus "pornographic?" I'm not sure. The Devil in Miss Jones would qualify as porn, I think, because the non-sexual parts take up little of the run-time and are just here to string a "plot" together.

 

[SimonDoom]

Do they make feature-length porn flicks any more?

A LIttle Dirty, a Little Bit Salty has the story, the characters, and the sex for a feature-length movie. They'd probably want to write around the kinda slow "meet the family" scene.

I don't watch porn films anymore, so I don't know. I was never that impressed by feature length porn films. I think porn works better in smaller chunks, like the film short EB refers to, Ultimo Metro, which is around 20 minutes long or so--enough to build up to an erotic encounter and to finish it satisfactorily, but no so long to have to figure out what to do with everyone after that and set up another sex scene. Most of my stories would work in 20-30 minute segments. I think it would be fun to see high-production value short films made like this, and there are some out there, as has been pointed out here before.

 

[8letters]

By the way, do they even make that many full-length porn movies any more? It's mostly videos with minimal plots, and they are usually short. Have I missed something? There may be a market for "mainstream" movies with sexual themes. However, an NC-17 rating is box office poison. Thus R-Rated movies have gotten more explicit since the system was introduced over fifty years ago.

Al Franken discussed in one of his books that a friend of his worked for a hotel chain, and the average person who paid to watch a porn movie in his hotel room watched it for only six minutes. Based on that, short porn videos meet the average porn watcher's needs better than a long movie.

The 80's were the golden age of porn movies as so many people were buying them to watch on their VCR. People then were expecting a porn movie to be movie length. But most of those movies were garbage with virtually no plot or character development. Just a string of sex scenes with very little to connect them.

If a studio was wanting to convert one of my stories to a porn movie, I'd recommend My Mom Competes with my Stepmom. It takes a while to get going, but then it's sex scene after sex scene, each of them different and I think very creative. The MMC alternates having sex with two women, so some visual variety.

I'd think there'd be a market for hard R movies with a small theatrical release but mainly meant to be watched at home on Netflix by a couple. "Netflix and chill" movies. Movies with enough romance and eroticism to get both the man and woman excited. For that kind of movie, I'd recommend My European Summer Vacation. I think it's my most romantic story with strong characters, an intriguing plot, and lots of hot sex scenes. The plot is the American MMC travels to Ireland, falls in love with an Irish girl, and then discovers that she's his half-sister. He can't tell her that they are related and tries to dump her, but she refuses to be dumped because she's in love with him. And he doesn't try too hard to dump her because he's in love with her. But eventually, he has to tell her that they are half-siblings.

 

[intim8]

And said, "We'd like to make a feature length pornographic film based on your story."

Which one would it be and why? Give us a link while you're at it. I could use some reading material for the work week.

Probably the series: Aces. It has a plot and a big potential for sequels. Oh, wait, did you say a *porn* studio...?

 

[CyranoJ]

What was Lust, Caution rated?

It was "NC-17." At the time, the highest-grossing picture ever to have that rating, apparently.

 

[samhasstories]

Vacation with the Marshals, for sure. Though all my stuff is pretty porny.

 

[Pabiporffor]

https://literotica.com/s/the-fishing-club
It tells the story of a group of fathers who meet up at weekends to watch live feeds of their daughters one night stands. It's seen through the eyes of a new member who struggles with his conscience and addiction to the sex shows as he wonders this is the week his daughter will be picked.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Given that films, especially porn films I imagine, tend to be make best from short stories, I'd suggest
Into the Woods for heterosexual porn (couple seek spot for some sex, keep getting interrupted before they can really get going, finally find a private clearing in the forest but only after a guy catches sight of her naked. Have or haven't they been watched? Definitely sufficient plot for a porno!) Actually the 750-word Denying Alex would work too - she avoids party host, gets together with guy, fuck in the dining room, realise they're being watched.

For kinky lesbian action, Wheelchair Bound?, though you'd probably want the first scene as a flashback a bit later on, possibly with the fire brigade rescuing them. Lass with chronic pain/fatigue gets persuaded to try wheelchair, attends fetish fair, acquires accessible bondage gear and tips on how to top without exhaustion, puts them into practise including the wheelchair gettng used as a piece of bondage equipment.

For a film with some hot sex scenes that's not just porn, the Educating Laura series including A Tale of Two Christmases at the end would have the emotional highs and lows of a Hollywood film, with a happy ending suitable for both types of film!

In my head, I'd love to see the various Adrian & Dan stories made into a series and films, ( Smoking Hot , Turkish Delight,
Steak & A Blow Job Day, Sex Swing Satisfaction) but I suspect the market for gay romance with a couple lads who don't look like porn stars is minimal.

For straightforward lesbian action, for the 'first time' market and having a backdrop of a lesbian sauna, Meaningless Kisses would be perfect.

Though a couple of my favourite sTories I can't see as a film at all - Homesick Halloween is a lovely romance but when they finally kiss and have sex, it's right at the end and the sex is all under a duvet! The Erotic Horror one might work with a bit of expanding to ankther victim getting their sexual thoughts feasted on, I suppose.

 

[AchtungNight]

The main issue with adapting a lot of my stories into films is balancing out the plot and the sex. There’s often not much of the latter in my stories compared to a porno film. I’m honestly not sure the studios would be interested in the plot. Then again, considering the usual crud that passes for adult film these days (I saw “Drive Away Dolls” and “Anyone But You” and felt their romance was more scripted than real chemistry), maybe my stories could do better. I guess it would depend on the studio involved and how good its screenplay adaptation people are. I have no idea how to write a screenplay myself.

 

[RetroFan]

I tend to write more plot-driven stories with sex occurring as part of the story rather than as the main focus, so I think some of my stories with the sexual content toned down would make reasonable mainstream movies.

For example last year I wrote a science fiction story called 'Cindy's Close Encounter' about a pretty cheerleader who along with her two friends and the three girls' boyfriends are abducted by aliens and take aboard a UFO after their high school's dance at Halloween in 1959. It's no Star Wars or Star Trek, but a production company such as Blumhouse could quite easily adapt it into a sci-fi/horror/comedy to entertain move-goers for 90 minutes or so.