What they did
Frank Houbre, co-founder of the screenwriting app ScreenWeaver, connected Claude to the app as a custom connector through its MCP server and uploaded the public-domain PDF of Bram Stoker's Dracula. The request was one sentence: adapt it as a gothic film, create the characters and places, write the scenes, then cut them into shots. Claude first called a tool that extracts the PDF text (free for text layers, OCR billed per scanned page, up to 300 pages per file), then wrote straight into the project rather than answering in chat: character and location sheets, the script in screenplay format, and storyboard entries with shot size, camera move and duration.
How it went
The project came back with 11 characters, 16 places and 8 objects in the story bible, 32 scenes and 177 shots. Claude chose a cold open that nobody asked for: the Count's shaving mirror falling from the castle wall, then a jump back five days, which Houbre liked. The script came out in French. Claude did not make images or video; the frames and a film were generated afterwards in the app with paid credits. He calls the result a first draft that still needs reading and cutting.
Worth knowing
This is a maker's account from the vendor, written partly to sell the MCP, which needs a paid plan. Only use books you hold the rights to or that are in the public domain. Script changes go to a history log and shot deletions wait for approval, so it can be undone. He suggests reading every scene before spending credits on images.