Definition of "optioning" []

• Present participle of option. (verb)

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• "When it comes to optioning my adult fantasy novels for the big screen, I've occasionally gotten nibbles from random people in Hollywood."
• "So we got two Korean Horror films sullied by Hollywood, with an end result not worth talking about beyond the details of its optioning."
• "You have to think about all this before you think about optioning a script."