When I write a fiction novel about the travails of a rock critic
Cool! I'll adapt it for the screen. Will it have a car chase & a montage scene with upbeat music where the rock critic and/or The Beckys try on clothes at a fancy dept store? 'Cause I can just add those for the film.
But, if they're already there? So much easier.... 
PS: I think your idea's great. And if I were to adapt it for the screen? No car chases or montages w/upbeat music trying on clothes at a fancy dept store. I promise. Hella nudity, though.
Spoiler For A Nonexistent Book And Film:
The Beckys are a media put-on. Modeled after the Donnas but more prefab, the Beckys are a punk construct who show up in Page Six-like gossip columns -- but, in the spirit of naked emperors, the band doesn't actually exist. Columnists heard they were the Next Big Thing, so they report seeing them at various clubs & hotspots in order to stay employed, and everyone who's in on the joke HAS to stay in on the joke so they can keep their jobs and their prestige.
So we have these four fictional women -- Becky Dent, Becky Call, Becky Laureate, and Becky Quatro -- in a fictional punk band, and that they've never recorded a note doesn't keep them from becoming Next Big Thing in magazines like Blender. My central character -- who I'm trying to keep from being too much like the High Fidelity guy, and not succeeding -- at first goes along with this, but realizes he can't, and so tries to find the most interesting way to expose the scam. (I won't give away the climax, but explosives at CBGB's are involved.)
In the meantime, my central character goes through episodic situations of bad relationships, bad music, bad drugs, but finds enough good people and good music to stay in the game.
You guys see any potential in this? Or does it seem hackneyed? Either way, I'll be sure to write a car chase and an '80s montage sequence into it so you and I can collabo, Beej.
