Film Fic

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A Film Fic is a Fanfic which is the plot of a film—usually romantic in nature -- adapted to star the characters of another fandom. It sounds like a cheat, but it's surprisingly difficult to remain faithful to both the film and the characters, especially in slash fic. The worst of these end up as transcripts of the target movie with the names changed.

A subtrope of the Fusion Fic and the Whole-Plot Reference.

Examples of Film Fics include: