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

First, warm thanks to my mysterious benefactor for the generous donation to the site. The result of the donation has afforded me the ability to remove some pesky advertising from the site, notably on the discussion board.

On the Unproduced Scripts page there are twenty new scripts up for your reading pleasure. – Don

On the Unproduced Scripts page, there are twenty-four new or revised scripts up for your reading pleasure. And, after you have read them, you can discuss them on the Discussion Board

For those of you familiar with George’s Fempiror/Vampire work, I’d thought I’d let you know that he’s finally gotten his site up and running at Fempiror.com. Those not familiar with George’s work, though keen on vampire mythology, you might want to check out The Fempiror Chronicles which is a series of stories following a race of people who resemble the mythological vampire in many ways.

For those of you who do your holiday shopping through Amazon.com, please consider using our search engine to find the gifts you are looking for and at the same time, help support the site. – Don

On this Thanksgiving eve (or as they call it in Canada, “Wednesday”), I have no script update. I do, however, have episode three of Puppet Television. This episode was written by our own Steven “Wesley” Cameron, admin of the discussion board who makes everyone (even me) follow the rules. Please note: this is for mature audiences. Even if you are a mature audiences, you might not “get it”. Even if you watch all the episodes in order.