He has adapted a wide-range of material for film and television, both fiction (including "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides, Tom Wolfe’s "A Man in Full", "The Touchstone" by Edith Wharton) and non-fiction (notably "American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House" by Jon Meacham, "The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce’s “Ulysses"" by Kevin Birmingham, and biographies of David O. Selznick, Robert Capa and Keith Moon), all of which are unproduced.