Over on the Unproduced Scripts page we have 35 new or revised original scripts up for your reading pleasure.

With 30 or so new scripts going up a week, it is very difficult to give each and every script their day in the sun beyond having them featured as an Unproduced Script of the Day. Periodically I try to call out a couple of scripts here on the index page, but that is few and far between. Starting tomorrow (or the next day) I will be featuring one audio script a week here. You can also subscribe to the iTunes feed, if you are an iPod user. If you are not an iPod user, you can still listen to the audio file just as you did for Bull Creek. - Don

It is a flood of radio scripts! Silent Universe has release the pre-production draft of Episode 7: Hello World. Now is the time to get your input into the story before it goes to production. The teaser is Some thought that the dawn of the Second Space Age would unite humanity in a common cause. Dreams of grand utopias, fevered the minds of visionaries and futurists, who proclaimed that the stars would save us from ourselves… They couldn’t have been more wrong.. The production values on Silent Universe are fantastic. The scripts are not read, they are performed by voice actors that do this for a living. I highly recommend you sci-fi fans check it out.

On another note, more back to earth, James Whyle has release the script to his radio play A Man called Rejoice which has been broadcast numerous times by the BBC Radio 3. I haven’t found an audio copy of the play online, but you can buy it for a buck at The Home of MiDor. Personally, I’d love to see the audio play released under a Creative Commons license. James’ work has been published as Rejoice Burning by Aurora Metro Press in New South African Plays.

Thanks so much to Marie for the heads up on these, too many to list here, scripts and transcripts from the Golden Age of Radio. There is the ‘manly espionage thriller’ David Harding, Counterspy, a handful of Sci Fi dramas like The Planet Man and Tales of Tomorrow as well as more recognizable series like Little Orphan Annie, Mark Trail and Escape. It is folks like Generic Radio Workshop and Early Radio that makes this stuff available to you, the reader.

So, skip on over to the Radio Scripts and transcripts page and do some reading. - Don

Resident Evil: Extinction is coming soon to theaters. Up until a couple of years ago, I wasn’t a big fan of the Zombie/Horror genre. I came across George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead on Archive.org and the rest is history. I’ve burned through about all movies of the zombie genre that I can get my hands on. Check out this great public service film What to do in a Zombie Attack. While waiting for the latest Resident Evil movie, play the Resident Evil game.

The world as we know it, no longer exists. The Earth now belongs to the Undead. The key to survival in this new world is to keep moving…

A small resistance survives by scavenging abandoned towns for whatever fuel is still left. With all of the surrounding cities sucked dry of fuel, your only chance of reaching Alaska (and finding other survivors) is to scour Las Vegas for any remaining fuel.

Choose your convoy vehicles and make your way through Las Vegas in search of survivors and fuel. In each level you will be given a mission that describes where you must drive your convoy. Once you?ve reached the mission point, use the weapons you?ve collected to defend your convoy against blood thirsty zombies. Check out the game here.

Over on the Unproduced Scripts page we have eleven new or revised scripts up. I have a few more to get up before I start to unleash the scripts for the One Week Challenge. - Don

Thanks to Ron and the two anonymous individuals for their kind and generous donation to SimplyScripts.

Shout out to John and Renee, two scriptarians who attended the Harry Potter party at the Whistlestop Bookshop friday night.

For those hunting around for the lost Lost scripts (not transcripts) those can now be found here.

Updated the TV Scripts and Transcripts database where in you will find, among other things the first episode of season three of Dr. Who - Smith and Jones. This comes from BBC’s Writer’s Room which also has teleplays of episodes of Life on Mars, Casualty and Hustle. Find also on the TV Scripts page, thanks to Weekly Script, episode 2 of Deadwood and, thanks to TimMinear[dot]net, you can read the last to episodes of Drive. (You can also watch the last two episodes of Drive on the Fox Myspace page.

Lastly, I’ve cleared out the backlog of Unproduced scripts which you can find on the unproduced scripts page. - Don

Folks, our own Phil went to a script pitch last night. Here is the report. There is some valuable information here that I thought I’d share. You can also add your own insights on the Discussion Board.

Phil writes:

I attended the pich meeting last night and pitched both The Burnout and A Druid’s Guide to the Northeast. I found it worth the time, effort and money I put into it.

I first pitched The Burnout and bombed out terribly. Larry and associates actually stopped me in mid pitch to tell me I was going about it the wrong way. I brought a fifteen page story synopsis and told them them the story with way too much detail. Looking back, I can see where I went over the top with the details, going as so far as to use different voices when the characters talked. I won’t even bring up the platinum-haired finger puppets.

Larry said that a proper pitch is telling them the name of the script, presenting the logline and a very brief synopsis. A pitch should be a dialogue where you want the producers to ask you questions in the short time you have with them. They were pretty cool about the whole matter.

About an hour later, I pitched [A Druid's Guide to the Northeast]. I didn’t refer to my fifteen page synopsis and instead kept the synopsis extremely short. Maybe five lines. Right after I gave it, they started asking questions. What’s a druid? Are they real? What’s a water elemental? How ‘magical’ is the movie?

When all was said and done, they asked for a copy of Druid.

Phil

Thanks to Rob for the heads up on this one. Paramount Vantage brings us this April 9, 2005 unspecified draft script of Babel by Guillermo Arriaga. And, thanks to Dennis for the heads up on this one. Weekly script brings us the winner for Best Screenplay at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival - Henry Fool. Skip on over to the Movie Scripts page to check them out.

On another note, I have long gotten complaints that I mix Movie Scripts and Movie Transcripts together. This has caused some confusion with folks who are looking to the site to provide clues to proper screenwriting format. To that end, I have split the two into two separate groups. So, if you are looking to find out every single word that was said in a movie, thanks to those folks who painstakingly watch movies and transcribe the dialog, I give you the Movie Transcripts page. - Don

On the Unproduced Scripts page we have thirty nine new and revised scripts up for your reading pleasure. Also, I’ve split the full list of unproduced scripts into two sections. At 3,000 unproduced scripts, the full list of unproduced scripts was taking too long to come up. So, read A to L scripts and M to Z scripts.

Go see Saving the Blue Note

If you are in the Chicago area this month, go see Saving the Blue Note (formerly called The Swingin’ Sounds of Jack Amsterdam) written by our own Mike Shelton

Now playing at:
St. Gabriel’s Auditorium
4500 S Wallace Ave
Chicago, IL 60609

The best way to get tickets is at the door, or by calling 773-538-8272 to check availability.

Show times:
Saturday, March 3rd - 8pm
Sunday, March 4th - 3pm
Saturday, March 10th - 8pm
Saturday, March 17th - 8pm
Sunday, March 18th - 3pm (The Hangover Matinee!)

Tickets - $15

If you’ve seen the play, drop your review in here

Script submissions and contact form have been closed temporarily. Spammers found the submission forms and I’m getting hammered with spam. If anyone knows of a good submission form validator to prevent spam, please let me know via email to webmaster (at) simplyscripts(dot) com . - Don

I get a lot of requests for scripts in foreign languages. I have a pretty sparse collection (but still, the biggest I’ve seen on the ‘net) of scripts in languages other than English. Sam has sent over his unproduced work Samuel Dalva for you readers and learners of Spanish. This is a mystery of two men, Leo and Samuel who live in different times and different places and who’s lives are intertwined. Check out Sam’s work on the Non English Scripts page. (Does anyone have a suggestion for a better name?)

Thank you to Spence and an Anonymous donor for their generous donations to the site. In Spence’s case, this is three months overdue. My apologies. Thanks for helping keep the site going.

Lastly, a shout out to Tim McG - I now know that at least one person subscribes to the RSS feed. - Don

On the unproduced scripts page there are thirty new or revised original screenplays up. We are heavy on the shorts this week which is perfect for those of you with short attention… Hey, let’s go ride bikes!… spans.

Thanks to Eleanor and the BBC for the heads up on this. The BBC has started a web series about how Science Fiction films have influenced your life. Take for example, Twelve Monkeys. Write about your recollections of the film and its influence on you. You have until April of 2007 to share your recollections about the place science fiction has had in your life. The aim is a collective, user-written autobiography of science fiction. - Don