Once the copyright for Hemingway's novel The Old Man and the Sea enters the public domain, anyone may make a movie based on it.

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Once a work enters the public domain, anyone is free to use or adapt it without permission or payment. This includes making a movie based on the work. The Old Man and the Sea is expected to enter the public domain in the United States in 2021, 70 years after Hemingway's death in 1961.

Once the Copyright for Hemingway's Novel the Old Man and the Sea