Adaptation - Shooting Scripts Author:Charlie Kaufman, Spike Jonze This latest head trip from director Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich) concerns an orchid collector (Chris Cooper), a journalist (Meryl Streep as author Susan Orlean), and the screenwriter (Charlie Kaufman, played by Nicolas Cage) who, in adapting Susan Orlean's book The Orchid Thief writes himself into the movie.Adaptation: The Shooting Script ... more »"RM" includes the complete screenplay, a selection of black-and-white movie stills, as well as an introduction on the process of adapting Susan Orlean's bestselling book The Orchid Thief. The Orchid Thief tells the story of a Florida man who schemes to clone the "ghost orchid" and sell it to people all over the world who are struck with orchidelirium, the obsession with collecting rare orchids at any price.« less