Editing Ian Adams (section)

====Film adaptations====
Adams and his writing partner and son, Riley Adams, have turned several of his seven published novels into movies. ''S – Portrait of a Spy'', was scheduled for production as a feature film (by Alberta Filmworks) in spring 2006.

The Adams team with Riley as the lead writer have written screenplays for [[CTV Television Network|CTV]], including 'Hunt for Justice'' (GalaFilms) stars [[William Hurt]], [[John Corbett (actor)|John Corbett]], and [[Wendy Crewson]]; the original screenplay, ''The Clark Todd Story'', (ImagiNation Films and Box Films, UK), was filmed in 2006.

His 1999 novel, ''Agent of Influence'', based on the true story of Canadian diplomat [[John Watkins (diplomat)|John Watkins]] who died while under [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police]] interrogation, was adapted by the Adams team and aired on the CTV in 2003 and 2004. Produced by [[Alberta]]-based FilmWorks and Gala Films, ''Agent of Influence'' starred [[Christopher Plummer]]. The film was sold by Alliance-Atlantis to TV networks in 132 countries, and in 2003 was recognized by the European Screenplay Writers' association as the best foreign television screenplay.<ref name="obit"/>

The Adams partnership created the screenplay for the full-length feature, ''Bad Faith'', adapted from Adams' novel of the same name and filmed in [[Calgary]] and [[Montreal]] in 2000 by Alberta FilmWorks and has been distributed globally by Oasis under the title, ''Cold Blooded''.

Adams has written many hours of produced television for Canadian and U.S. shows.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/geminis-hope-to-galvanize-industry-with-richmond-b-c-gala-1.570456|title=Geminis hope to 'galvanize industry' with Richmond, B.C., gala|publisher=cbc.ca|access-date=2008-06-06|last=|first=
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