Apologies for the lack of updates. With the day job, illness, children illness I’ve fallen quite behind in updating the site. I have a few things for you. Over on the Unproduced Scripts page there are twenty five original scripts up for your reading pleasure. Cindy’s Halloween Games has been drastically revised and is worth a re-read. Phil has updated Dreams in Dust and Marble. Also, Mike has his gothic short Becoming up (new script to the site). Head over to the unproduced scripts page and give them (or one of the 22 others) a read.

Thanks to Vern for the heads up on on FOUR Omen scripts from The Omen Chronicles. There is the 1975 draft of The Omen as well as Damien: Omen II, The Final Conflict and Omen IV: Armageddon. Please be a good citizen of the net (ok, I’ll say it, Netizen) and right click and “save as” to down load the scripts once you get to The Omen Chronicles. This helps to lower bandwidth and ensures that the site doesn’t crash due to server load. - Don

The featured unproduced screenplay this week is Jared Shipley’s White Picket Fence (98 pages in pdf format).  A New York college student returns home to Utah after his alcoholic father dies in a house fire. He lives with his hard-hearted, Vietnam veteran grandfather in a small, rural town. While there, the two decide to rebuild a decaying picket fence in the backyard, a symbol of their decaying family, and the young man is thrust into an odyssey of self-discovery, forcing him to face his demons about his family, himself, and the true nature of love.
Read the script or comment on it on the Discussion Board. - Don

The highlighted script for this week is Worldlines - A man has to travel from the year 2036 to the year 1975 to retrieve a computer that can prevent a nuclear war. 97 pages

Thanks to Donovan and Daily Script there is this unused draft of Fear and Loathing in LA which would be found on the Movie Scripts page. - Don

The selected writer is Sean Elwood. Sean wrote Repetition - A prisoner has to deal with the fact that he’s going to have to go through grief, guilt, and anger every day of his life. - Don

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.

{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. }

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.

So, with that being said, over on the Unproduced Scripts page we have twenty original scripts up for your reading pleasure.

I’d like to call out a couple of scripts - Phil’s Pet Names is a quick read about two guys trying to have a serious conversation about renaming their….you know, their junk. Note, tho, if words like ‘penis’ bother you, you might want to skip it.

Another that caught my eye was Three of Swords by Matias. It is also a short about a tarot reading exposes an undercover FBI agent who must escape a traveling carnival full of criminal freaks. If you do decide to read this, I’ll help you out. The word you don’t understand means “Dark” or “Murky”. (Yes, that is why I read the script. I opened it up and on the first page it had a word that I didn’t know the meaning of. Since I had already invested my time in looking up the word, I figured I read the whole thing to get my money’s worth.)

These two are just two of over twenty over on the Unproduced Scripts page. - Don

Addiction by Gregory J. Baldwin (Greg) - A new fad is taking over America: The messaging website, where people of all ages can sign up, create a massive friends list, and leave each other comments! Teenage Danny is the first to really get into the obsession until pretty soon the craze has swept the nation off its feet! However, after meeting with the website’s crazy creator and learning of his evil plans to overthrow the government, Danny decides it’s his burden to get everybody off Buddysearch and end the craze! (pdf) Discuss this script on the Discussion Board

Next week, I’ll shoot over to iScript.com three scripts of which they will choose one to be audio performed.

Additionally, one participant in the OWC will be selected to have a feature length script they have written covered by the excellent Sandy Gunter of Whiskey Loose Tongue. Sandy has read for several major studios like Imagine, Buena Vista, New Line and Fox. In addition, he is a past reader for the Nicholl Fellowship and IFP.

Lastly, I’ve run the Musicals database through the link checker and updated the links, so past broken links should work. - Don

The OWC is a challenge where participants had a week to write a 12 page dramatic script on the theme of Prison Cell. The scripts were posted in groups of six or seven. Some of the scripts have a “Thumbs Up”. This is not an indication of the quality of the script. It just means that the participant, in the true spirit of the OWC has read at least 10 of his/her co-participants scripts.

Please note, when you click on the title of the script, it will take you to the discussion board thread for that script.

The names assigned to the participants were taken from the phoenician alphabet with a few greek letters thrown in to make up the difference. The names were randomly asigned, so don’t read anything into it. The ‘fake’ names will stand until the end of next week, afterwhich the real names will be revealed. - Don