unfilmable

English

Etymology

un- +‎ filmable.

Adjective

unfilmable (comparative more unfilmable, superlative most unfilmable)

  1. Not suitable or able to be filmed.
    • 2009 February 22, James Wigney, “No more Mr Nice Guy”, in Herald Sun‎, archived from the original on 15 June 2009:
      The dense, bleak, multilayered graphic novel was declared unfilmable first by its writer Alan Moore and then by 12 Monkeys director Terry Gilliam, who was the first man to try and fail.
    • 2024 March 21, Lucy Mangan, “3 Body Problem review – the creators of Game of Thrones have done it again”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:
      But Benioff, Weiss, and their collaborator Alexander Woo have undoubtedly proved yet again that there is no such thing as an unfilmable novel.
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