Unfilmable

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Not suitable or able to be filmed.

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From un- + filmable.

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