“Screen story” credit is given when a screenplay is based on source material, but the screenplay’s story is new and substantially different from the source material’s.
You can read more about this and other credits at the [WGA’s screen credits policy page](http://www.wga.org/subpage_writersresources.aspx?id=171).
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