With the blockbuster potential of movies based on best-selling novels, publishing houses and agents show drafts of famous authors 'books to film companies, so that before a book has even been published, its movie rights may have fetched millions of US dollars.
看上暢銷小說改編成電影的潛力，具有知名度作家的小說，被書商或經紀人送去給電影公司決策者看過後，書還沒正式出版，電影版權已經被數百萬美元的高價預定。