Over on the Unproduced Scripts page are twenty seven original scripts for your reading pleasure.

– Don

Focus Features releases two more…

Victoria & Abdul – Undated, final shooting draft script by Lee Hall (Based on the book Victoria & Abdul: The True Story of the Queen’s Closest Confidant by Zshrabani Basu) – hosted by: Focus Features – in pdf format

Abdul Karim arrives from India to participate in Queen Victoria’s golden jubilee. The young clerk is surprised to find favor with the queen herself. As Victoria questions the constrictions of her long-held position, the two forge an unlikely and devoted alliance that her household and inner circle try to destroy. As their friendship deepens, the queen begins to see a changing world through new eyes, joyfully reclaiming her humanity.

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Darkest Hour – Undated, final shooting draft script by Anthony McCarten – hosted by: Focus Features – in pdf format

During the early days of World War II, the fate of Western Europe hangs on the newly-appointed British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Hitler, or fight on against incredible odds.

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Thanks Barksid for the heads up. Find more on the Scripts Studios are posting for award consideration page.

Paramount has come out with with…

Downsizing – Undated, unspecified draft script by Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor – hosted by: Paramount – in pdf format

“Downsizing” follows a kindly occupational therapist who undergoes a new procedure to be shrunken to four inches tall so that he and his wife can help save the planet and afford a nice lifestyle at the same time.

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Thanks Janet and Barksid for the H.U.. Find it and more on the Scripts Studios are posting for Award Consideration

Sony Classics

…put up, took down and then put up again several scripts. At this point in time, eight scripts added. A Fantastic Woman, Brigsby Bear, Happy End, Loveless, Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down The White House, Maudie, Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer, and Novitiate.

They can all be found on the Scripts Studios are posting for Award Consideration page.

We are at 31* (TSoW is still down).

Eisoptrophobia (7 pages in pdf format) by Huidong Lu

A man tries to face his greatest fear. His own reflection.

Jack can’t look at his reflection in a mirror as he believes his reflection has the life of its own. Once, his friend Sam leaves Jack alone in a public restroom. Jack has to face his fear as he needs to go past the dreaded mirror.

Production: Characters – 2; Location – 1 – restaurant

Huidong Lu is a talented writer who can be reached at: huidonglu (a) yahoo.ca

This is an October 2017 One Week Challenge is a short. The OWC is a screenwriting exercise wherein writers are given a week to write a short script on the theme and genre provided. These are quickly done and may be a little rough around the edges considering the short time frame in which they are written.

This screenplay may not be used or reproduced for any purpose including educational purposes without the expressed written permission of the author.

About the reviewer: Khamanna Iskandarova has several features completed, as well as a dozen shorts, some of which have been independently produced. Khamanna can be reached at khamanna (a) hotmail. Check out her IMDB Creds

Over on the Unproduced Scripts page are thirty one original scripts for your reading pleasure.

– Don

20th Century Fox releases…

War for Planet of the Apes – November 30, 215 final shooting draft script by Mark Bomback & Matt Reeves (based on Characters created by Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver) – hosted by: 20th Century Fox – in pdf format

Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet. 

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Thanks “Barksid” for the heads up. And, of course there are move Scripts Studios are posting for award consideration

Hell Bent (10 pages in pdf format) by John Staats writing as Louis No’mour (JEStaats)

Three bandits on the run must choose their own path to Peace.

Three horseback riders must ride through an Indian cemetery to get to freedom. But Indians don’t like it when white folks wake them up.

Characters – 3 main
Locations – 3 – desert, mountains, hotel
CGI – skeletons, ghostly horses, real horses

John Staats is a talented and prolific writer who can be reached at: jestaats (a) hotmail.com.

This is an October 2017 One Week Challenge is a short. The OWC is a screenwriting exercise wherein writers are given a week to write a short script on the theme and genre provided. These are quickly done and may be a little rough around the edges considering the short time frame in which they are written.

This screenplay may not be used or reproduced for any purpose including educational purposes without the expressed written permission of the author.

About the reviewer: Khamanna Iskandarova has several features completed, as well as a dozen shorts, some of which have been independently produced. Khamanna can be reached at khamanna (a) hotmail. Check out her IMDB Creds

Thanks “Barksid” for the heads up on these two from Amazon

Last Flag Flying – October 30, 2016 unspecified draft script by Richard Linklater & Darryl Ponicsan (Based on the novel by Darryl Ponicsan) – hosted by: Amazon – in pdf format

In 2003, 30 years after they served together in the Vietnam War, former Navy Hospital Corpsman Richard “Doc” Shepherd re-unites with ex-Marines Sal and Mueller on a different type of mission: to bury Doc’s son, a young Marine killed in the Iraq War. Doc decides to forgo burial at Arlington Cemetery and, with the help of his old buddies, takes the casket on a bittersweet trip up the East Coast to his home in suburban New Hampshire.

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Wonderstruck – Undated, unspecified draft script by Brian Selznick (Based on his illustrated novel) – hosted by: Amazon – in pdf format

The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection.

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More on the Scripts Studios are Posting for Award Consideration page.