[1][2] One of his first attempts was an adaptation of a favourite novel—A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood.
Don Bachardy, Isherwood's surviving partner who managed the rights to the story, approved of the script and it was then picked up by fashion designer and first-time film director Tom Ford.
A Single Man, starring Colin Firth and Julianne Moore, premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September 2009 and was released in December 2009.
[2] Scearce's second film adaptation, Measure of a Man, a coming-of-age story based on Robert Lipsyte's novel One Fat Summer, starring Blake Cooper and Donald Sutherland, was released in 2018.
In 2018, Scearce was hired by the Michael Grandage Company to write an adaptation of Jack and Lem, a biography by David Pitts about President John F. Kennedy and his gay best friend, Lem Billings.