|
Welcome to SimplyScripts A database of hundreds of downloadable scripts, movie scripts, screenplays, and transcripts of current, classic and maybe a few soon-to-be-released movies, television, anime, unproduced and radio shows. A screenwriter's resource. See below for what is new on the site or click on a script category! - Enjoy! I'm not ignoring you. You just need to check your spam folder. |
Amazon Studios is next out the gate with:
Manchester By The Sea – March 10, 2015 final draft script by Kenneth Lonergan
Love and Friendship – May 22, 2015 Partially conformed shooting script by Whit Stillman (adapted from Jane Austen’s Love & Friendship -or- The Spirit of Jealousy & Perversity of Malice)
You will find these and more on the Scripts Studios are Posting for 2016 – 2017 Script Award Consideration page.
Christmas Story by Sean Chipman
To be filmed as Christmas Eve between December 2nd through December 14th.
Christmas Story (pdf) started out as a 7 Week Challenge Script* written by Sean & Robert Chipman
A botched Christmas Eve liquor store robbery leads down a destructive path for a cop trying to reconcile with his estranged mother, an alcoholic mall Santa, a mentally unhinged man, his vindictive fiancé and her secret lover.
A few years later it was revised as Christmas Story (pdf)
Be sure and like the Facebook page and talk about it on the Discussion Board
*The 7 Week Challenge is a writing challenge wherein writers come up with a feature script in 7 weeks.
Frankenstein – May 23, 2015, second draft script by Max Landis – hosted by: Frankenstein – in pdf format
Radical scientist Victor Frankenstein and his equally brilliant protégé Igor Strausman share a noble vision of aiding humanity through their groundbreaking research into immortality. But Victor’s experiments go too far, and his obsession has horrifying consequences. Only Igor can bring his friend back from the brink of madness and save him from his monstrous creation.
Information courtesy of imdb.com
Award Season Continues…
We continue posting links to the scripts that the studios are posting for award consideration. Award season continues with Disney Studios.
Zootopia – June 21, 2016 unspecified draft script by Jared Bush & Phil Johnston
You will find this and more on the Scripts Studios are Posting for 2016 – 2017 Script Award Consideration page.
Original Script Sunday are the scripts of the October One Week Challenge wherein writers were challenge to write a 6 to 10 page script on the theme of:
Horrific Tales of my Childhood
Retell your favorite childhood fairy tale (story, poem or song) as a horror story. Please include the source. Here is a list of fairy tales for inspiration.
Genre: Horror (or any subgenere thereof)
Rating: Children / Young Adult / Adult
Budget: Open
The scripts are submitted anonymously. In a week or two, the writers will be revealed.
Over on the Original Scripts page are twenty-five original scripts for your reading pleasure.
– Don
Horrific Tales of my Childhood
Genre: Horror (or any subgenere thereof)
Rating: Children / Young Adult / Adult
Budget: Open
Retell your favorite Fairy* Tale as a horror story. Please include the source. Here is a list of fairy tales for inspiration.
*Can be children’s fable, myth, poem, or song.
The scripts are due on Friday, October 14th at 11:59PM EST and must be submitted to: SimplyScripts.com/owc.
Timeline:
October 7 at around 8 est – Theme and Genre announced.
October 14th at 11:59PM EST – Scripts are due to SimplyScripts.com/owc
October 16th – Scripts Posted
October 21st – Writer’s Choices submitted
October 30th – Names and writer’s choice revealed.
The Gist
6 – 10 pages, properly formatted & saved as a PDF file, Script submitted anonymously, Free to submit*, This isn’t a contest. There are no prizes. One entry per person.
*Free to submit. But, you are committing to reading and ranking five scripts randomly assigned to you.
You can revise your script as many times as you wish up until the deadline.
Participants are strongly encouraged to read and comment/review on the scripts submitted.
Do not put your real name on your script. However, please use your real name when submitting your script. (After the challenge closes you can either have your script removed or resubmit with your script with your name on it.
Please put © 2016 on the bottom left corner of your title page.
Best of luck and I hope you guys have a lot of fun with this contest.
There will be a Writer’s Choice wherein the participants (and only the participants) will be asked to select the three scripts he or she likes the best.
First out of the gate, as usual, is Universal Studios followed closely by Bleeker Street.
As we’ve done for the last 16 award seasons, we’ll be posting links to the scripts that the studios are posting for award consideration. You will find them on the Scripts Studios are Posting for 2016 – 2017 Script Award Consideration page.
Bridget Jones’s Baby – January 8th 2016 Final Shooting draft script by Helen Fielding and Dan Mazer and Emma Thompson (Based on the characters and story created by Helen Fielding )
The Girl On The Train – Undated, unspecified draft script by Erin Cressida Wilson (Adapted from the novel by Paula Hawkins)
Hail, Casesar – January 5th, 2015 blue revised draft script by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
My Big Fat Greet Wedding 2 – Undated, unspecified draft script by Nia Vardalos
The Secret Life of Pets – Undated, unspecified draft script by Cinco Paul & Ken Daurio and Brian Lynch
Anthropoid – June 24th 2015 version 20 shooting script script by Sean Ellis and Anthony Frewin
Captain Fantastic – September 2, 2014 final draft script by Matt Ross
Denial – April 12, 2015 full blue draft script by David Hare (Based on the book HISTORY ON TRIAL by Deborah E. Lipstadt)
Eye In The Sky – September 12, 2014 revised yellow shooting draft script by Guy Hibbert
On Friday, October 7th at 12:00 midnight GMT (8:00 pm edt) the theme and genre of the October One Week Challenge will be announced!
Can you write a good, properly formatted short screenplay in a week? Take the challenge. Come back this Friday and find out the theme and genre and write a script. This is free to enter, however you will be asked to read and do a short review of five short scripts.
A number of previous One Week Challenge scripts have gone on to be optioned and some have been produced.
Take the challenge!
