Two new scripts on the ‘net. Thanks to Donovan (formerly of FMA) and Daily Script there is the June 1991 early draft of Jennifer Eight by Bruce Robinson (who also penned “Withnail & I”). Donovan comments, “Jennifer Eight was notoriously too long to be released without major re-editing and re-shoots. The script was written in a deceptive way, with a lot of dialogue ‘hidden’ in the prose. Because of this, so many scenes had to be cut (to bring the film under 3 hours) that reshoots were needed just so the ending would still make sense. It was also rumoured that the reshoots even changed the identity of the killer… but that isn’t true. …Bruce Robinson has said he’ll never revisit the film for a DVD ‘Director’s Cut’, so the only way to know what he originally intended was to read this script. So here it is, in case anyone else is interested.”

Additonally, thanks to Screentalk there is an undated, unspecified draft of Memoirs of a Geisha by Robin Swicord (based on the best selling novel by Arthur Golden). Those would be found on the Movie Scripts page. – Don

On the unproduced scripts page there are fourteen scripts up for your reading pleasure.

Check out Drive Thru – screenplay by Steven Meredith, directed by Pedro Chaves – both frequent SimplyScripts contributors.

A suicidal man stops at a local fast food drive thru for the last meal of his life. The short period of time he spends in the drive thru changes his life forever.

Get more information on the filming at Dream Journey Studios. You can read the short screenplay here and discuss the film here. – Don

Apropos current happenings in the US Congress, thanks to anonymous and Horror Lair you can read three-drafts-in-one of Brian Nelson’s Hard Candy (which is now available on DVD). That would be on the movie scripts page.

On the TV Scripts and Transcripts page, thanks to Boston Legal there are transcripts up of The Practice.

And, thanks to M you can read some transcripts from the Golden Age of Radio. As you know, companies sponsored a lot of radio shows. Read Raising Junior sponsored by Wheatena and Forty Fathom Trawlers sponsored by 40 Fathom Fish Company (which later became High Liner Foodservice).

Shout outs to Unknown Screenwriter and the “one page” thing and 52 Screenplays who continues to read and review a screenplay a week. This week’s installment Big Fish

Thanks to “JBM” and Daily Script read the first draft script Michael Mann’s Miami Vice. Read it on the Movie Scripts page.

On the unproduced scripts page there are twenty-four new or revised scripts up for your reading pleasure. – Don