The ScriptGirl report for the week ending June 6th, 2008.

Merlin’s quest to fight an ancient evil with a band of nerdy scientists, washed up athletes and movie stars. Lion’s Gate video game adaptation, Harvard Zombie Massacre, Final Orbit (based on a comic book) vacation nightmare (hate when that happens), Finally, with a little help for a certain dorky website, Mike Shelton’s The Swinging Sounds of Jack Amsterdam sold.

Remember, as ScriptGirl sez, “you can’t sell it, if you don’t write it”.

A word about the site. We are in the process of a server move. Please be patient. Hope to have the site moved over by the end of the week. In addition, I’ve shut down the discussion board until I can get all the server error issues resolved. - Don

Covert Careers by Pia
Read by iScript.com

A married young couple has to come to terms with their own lies and deceit.

Short, Comedy
Rated R for Language

Read the script (12 pages pdf format). Listen to the script:

 

 Covert Careers [10:03m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

{note: This audio recording is released under a Creative Commons, attribution, noncommercial, no derivatives 3.0 license. You can share the audio recording in its entirety, but you can’t change it or sell it. }

cute horse picture courtesy of Free Horse Photos

Thanks to Earl Newton (Creator / Executive Producer of Stranger Things), we have the script (in pdf format) to Stranger Things Episode 3 One Of Those Faces.

A woman with a strange gift is forced to choose between losing that gift and the life of her nephew.

One Of Those Faces is based on the original short story “Rami Temporales” (which you can read here) by Gary Braunbeck.

Rundown:
Watch One Of Those Faces
Read the Script
Read the short story upon which the show is based.
Check Out the scripts to previous episodes of Stranger Things.

The Stranger Things series, in addition to being the first High Def internet show, has also made the leap from the web to the TV. The online anthology series will appear on cable channel Illusion On-Demand.

Lastly, check out Earl Newton’s appearance at BaltiCon with a sneak peek into the next in the anthology Stranger Things - Singularity.

Better Days Episode 06 “This is my Show B*tch”
by Steven Cameron
Read by iScript.com (Thanks to SwampTales)

Death… Destruction… Mayhem… The three main ingredients and nobody is safe, the most unpredictable episode yet. A different approach, one time only. The episode focuses on Casey and his journey, where will it all go? Who dies? Who survives? Find out this week on… Better Days… It’s an Invasion baby! 25 pages

Short Series - Comedy
Rated R (for language)

Read the script (25 pages - html format). Discuss the script. Listen to the script:

 

 Better Days Episode 06 "This is my Show B*tch" [20:37m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

{note: This audio recording is released under a Creative Commons, attribution, noncommercial, no derivatives 3.0 license. You can share the audio recording in its entirety, but you can’t change it or sell it. }

Catch up with the rest of the series!

Better Days Episode 0 “The Original Pilot”
Better Days Episode 01 “Red Phoenix”
Better Days Episode 02 “Pop Up & Go”
Better Days Episode 03 “Jason vs. The Giant Chicken of Doom”
Better Days Episode 04 ‘The Four of Us”
Better Days Episode 05 “Three Ways to Hell”
Better Days Episode 05.5 “The Intruder”

Another draft of The Mist, another draft of 3:10 to Yuma and the filmed version of I am Legend - all these from PDFscreenplays.net.

Thanks to Donovan and Daily Script there is David Webb People’s forth draft of Hero. Notice the end of the script where there is an audience of Monkeys. Yes, David Webb People’s of 12 Monkeys fame which came out after Hero.

Thanks to The Weekly Script read The Roughshod. Those and more are on the Movie Scripts page.

Lastly, scripts sales for the weekend ending May 16th from ScriptGirl. She’s funny and hot and everything I’m not. - Don

Yes, SimplyScripts is all about the script and the writing of the script and not so much about the selling and the producing of the script. So, why am I putting you onto a script sales report? Well, three reasons. This is factual information about who sold what to the studios, so you have an idea of what the studios are buying delivered in a truly engaging format. ScriptGirl ends her report with “Remember, you can’t sell it, if you don’t write it”. And lastly, Script Girl is one hot tomato.

Below is the April 18th, 2008 report on scripts sales. Check out ScriptGirl.net to get the latest.

As Script Girl sez, “remember, you can’t sell it, if you don’t write it”. - Don

From the mind that brought you EscapePod (excellent speculative science fiction short fiction in audio format) and PseudoPod (excellent short horror fiction in audio format) comes the debut podcast by Podcastle. Each week they will bring excellent short fantasy fiction in audio format to your mp3 player, tho if you wish you can listen to the story on your computer. The debut story is Peter S. Beagle’s Come Lady Death. Peter S. Beagle may be familiar to some of you as the writer of The Last Unicorn and the screenplay based on the book of the same name.

As many of you know, I’ve been a big fan of short speculative fiction in audio format. Periodically and from time to time, I take a break from screenplay updates to let you know about audio fiction on the ‘net. In fact, Simplyscripts presents short scripts in audio format from time to time. You can even subscribe to the feed via iTunes Oneclick.

However, audio scripts are just not as popular as I thought, so I’ve decided on a major and radical content shift for SimplyScripts. Beginning tomorrow, or the next day. Or early next week, perhaps. SimplyScripts will become SimplyPod^TM! While all the other excellent podcasts have the popular genres locked up, like science fiction, fantasty, horror, hardboiled and thriller, I have found my niche. Coming soon, no more scripts and screenplays. Coming soon, short speculative juvenile fiction in audio format. Each week SimplyPod^TM will bring you short speculative fiction written by and performed by my son and his friends from Mrs. Cartwright’s second grade class at Oakton Elementary School.

Coming next week or tomorrow will be the inaugural story Mr. Carrot and the sad Carnivore. It has been a pleasure serving your screenwriting needs over the past nine years, but I feel I must move on to new and better opportunities. So, please come back tomorrow or early next week for the grand unveiling of SimplyPod^TM! - Don

Rydale’s Prison by Philip Whitcroft
Read by: iScript.com

As you all know, in February we had the February One Week Challenge wherein participants were asked to write a 12 page dramatic script about a prison cell. We had 33 entries. The fine folks over at iScript.com were kind enough to select one script out of the group to be recorded.

The selected script is Rydale’s Prison by Philip Whitcroft .

An over crowded prison opens up a disused room with a dark history.

You can read along with the pdf version of the script here. You can discuss this script and all the OWC entries here. Click the “Play” button to listen to the script.

 

 Rydale's Prison by Philip Whitcroft: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Thanks to everyone who participated in the February One Week Challenge. - Don

Very special thanks to iScript.com for sponsoring the challenge and judging the final scripts.

Stranger Things - Episode 02B: Sins of the Mother - script- from: StrangerThings.tv

After an unsuspecting patient fails a background check, a second-year intern is forced to make a difficult decision…

First watch the episode, then read the script (annotated in pdf format).

Sins of the Mother is the episode of StrangerThings that really cemented my love affair with Earl and the folks behind StrangerThings. This is where the acting, production values and the story really came together to tell a story that surpasses not only Earl’s previous works, but just about anything that has come out of short speculative television in the last few years. Earl and the StrangerThings team hit their stride on Sins of the Mother and carry it through on the next episode, One of those Faces.