Great turnout this month for the One Week Exercise. We had fifteen folks submit their work, churned out in one week on the theme of telling your spouse you lost your job. The genre was Comedy. For your reading pleasure, skip on over to the April OWE page. – Don

Thanks to Jen for the heads up on these from TimMinear.net who has posted the final shooting scripts for the first four episodes of DRIVE! Beware, though: Due to some changes in the editing suite, some scenes that were written for Episodes 103 and 104 were shifted to later episodes. So there are BIG plot spoilers ahead. Check them out on the TV scripts page.

Remember, you have a couple of days and a few hours change to get your short, 15 page or less comedy script (in proper screenwriting format) on the theme of ?Telling your spouse that you lost your job? in for the One Week Exercise. – Don

Thanks to Rain for the heads up on Charlie Kaufman’s latest script Synecdoche, New York. This is an undated, unspecified, probably early draft about a theater director struggling with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play. Read the script via imdb.com discussion board. – Don

The folks over at Film Ick have posted what is purported to be excerpts from the script The Dark Knight (filmed under the fake title “Rory’s First Kiss”). Read part one here and part two here

Tick, tock. Time is ticking to get your short in for the One Week Exercise wherein you have until Friday, April 27th at midnight of your timezone to write a 15 page or less script (in proper screenwriting format) on the theme of “Telling your spouse that you lost your job.” Genre: Comedy. – Don

Breaking news from N who writes, Hey… I was on IMDB and just noticed that M Night Shyamalan’s new movie The Happening for 2008 is listed. I was psyched being a big fan and this was the first I heard of it. Anyways I went to the [IMDB] message board to see what the film was about and to my surprise someone in there has been emailing the script and one post I found had a link to download the script from megaupload. …I thought I’d point out the link to you so people can download the script if they want to check it out while its on megaupload. I believe it’s a 6th draft and MNS has already done extensive rewrites, but I heard the same thing about The Village and the movie ended up almost exactly the same as the leaked script for that film. Anyways, keep up the great work… don’t know what I’d do without your site!

Thanks N!

Don

Imagine a director coming to you with an idea and you had a week to churn out a short script on a theme or genre. Could you do it? This Friday we will be announcing the theme/genre of the April One Week Exercise.

On the Unproduced Scripts page we have twenty more original works up for your reading pleasure. That brings us to over fifty scripts this week alone. There is some good stuff in there. After you’ve read a script, head over to the Discussion Board and talk about what you’ve read.

Thanks Dennis for the heads up on this latest from The Weekly Script. This weeks fare is the 1965 The Cincinnati Kid – An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game. Check it out on the Movie Scripts page.

Oh, hey. Martin’s got a ‘blog. – Don

Thanks to Jack for the heads up on this. The Smoking Gun has five pages of the script to the controversial movie Hounddog. The film, set in the Deep South in the 1950s, features Dakota Fanning as Lewellen, a troubled girl who is attacked in a shed by a character named Wooden’s Boy. The five pages describes the sexual assault of the character Lewellen portrayed by Fanning. The scene is very disturbing. You can read it here. – Don

Thanks to JBM for the heads up on these. On the Movie Scripts we have two new scripts. Thanks to Horror Lair read the 2nd draft script of Whannell and Wan’s Dead Silence. Over at Daily Script read an unspecified draft of Ali.

Silent Universe has the script up to the sixth episode of Silent Universe: The Wheel Never Stops. That would be on the Radio Scripts page.

Ever thought of giving up your job and trying to become a writer in twelve months? In February of this year, IQCrash washed his hands of a career in advertising and gave himself 12 months to make it as a professional screenwriter. Follow his adventure on his ‘blog 12 Months

Update Pirates of the Carribbean 3 – Joblo.com has a link to the script and a couple of clips to the upcoming POTC3. – Don