I was dorking around Subterranean Cinema this evening.

Let me digress. Subterranean Cinema is the definitive site for movies you’ve never heard of. Movies that are subversive, weird or just not mainstream. I was introduced to films and scripts such as Andy Kaufman’s The Tony Clifton Story and the George Romero version of The Stand (based on the work by Stephen King) and The Day the Clown Cried, the unreleased Jerry Lewis movie about a circus clown who led children to the gas chambers during World War II.

Yes, stiff stuff.

Most recently, they’ve aquired Noble Rot a January, 1982 unspecified draft screenplay adapted from Sweet Deception by Jay Sandrich that Don Novello (known better as Father Guido Sarducci) and John Belushi were working on just before John Belushi had one speedball too many and left this world.

According to Subterranean Cinema this was to be a a romantic comedy/adventure about a young, un-sophisticated guy named Johnny Glorioso, who takes an elite new California wine to a New York wine tasting contest (the wine has the much desired and very rare fungus named Botrytis or “noble rot” of the film’s title, that can either destroy an entire crop or turn it into a legendary smooth and sweet wine), falls in love with a very untrustworthy but sexually desirable young
woman named Christine, becomes involved with a diamond smuggling ring, and maybe grows up a little and loses his naivete in the process, while getting the last laugh in the kind of final scene that audiences loved seeing Belushi have.

Belushi considered it the role he was born to play, and became obsessed with getting it produced.

You can read the script in html format from SubCin:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

In addition, you can download the pdf version if you have winrar to open it here. Or, you can download the script in two parts here: Part 1 and Part 2

More information about the John Belushi movie that never was:
John Belushi’s visit to Coturri Winery scouting shooting locations
Writeup of the script. – Don

Thanks to Russell for the heads up on these from Scribd.

Tender Comrade,
The Messenger,
Rio Bravo,
The Man Who Would Be King,
The Thomas Crown Affair,
The Big Sky,
Stage Door,
To Catch a Thief and
A Wizard of Earthsea (not the Sci Fi version).

Note: in order to download the scripts, you have to be signed in to Scribd. It is a free registration. The download link is under the script title in the upper left of the screen. – Don

Accountant falls into world of international espionage via facebook, another X-men: Wolverine script and some guy pimping Bandslam.

Pia’s Big Bad Wolf has been filmed. A young girl’s Christmas present, intended to make her feel safe and secure gives her the fright of her life. – Short, Horror, Suspense. 11 pages. PDF format.

Directed by: Danny Hein of Tidal Wave Films and featuring Jessica DeBaufer & Jacob Henkel

Share the joy here. – Don

Over on the Movie Scripts page we have three awesome scripts. Thanks to Russell for the heads up on The Hangover and Lawrence of Arabia. Thanks to Lauri who runs the excellent Between Death and the Devil – The Unofficial Richard Stanley Website for the heads up on Dust Devil.

Pia’s Big Bad Wolf has been filmed. A young girl’s Christmas present, intended to make her feel safe and secure gives her the fright of her life. – Short, Horror, Suspense. 11 pages. PDF format.

Directed by: Danny Hein

Share the joy here. – Don

Thanks Russell for the heads up on To Catch a Thief – Undated, unspecified draft script by John Michael Hayes (based on the novel by David Dodge) – hosted by: Scribd.com – in pdf format

American expatriate John Robie living in high style on the Riviera is a retired cat burglar. He must find out who a copy cat is to keep a new wave of jewel thefts from being pinned on him. High on list of prime victims is Jessie Stevens, in Europe to help daughter Frances find a suitable husband. Lloyds of London insurance agent is using a thief to catch a thief.

Information courtesy of imdb.com

There is more stuff on the Movie Scripts page.

“Simeli Mountain” by Kyle Patrick Johnson ~ First Place
A greedy man uses a memory-defective poor man as an avenue to wealth before the Cosmos rights itself. Adapted from the Grimm Brothers’ story of the same name.

“God’s Food” by MJ Hermanny ~ Second Place
The wife of a newly appointed SS member has a devastating secret to hide.

“Sleeping Beauty” by Jon Hill ~ Third Place
A private detective is manipulated by an old flame into rescuing a friend in trouble. But is all what it seems?

Each month, Movie Poet runs a free online five page screenplay contest. On the first of each month a new contest is announced. During that month, you can enter your script. During the next month, you can read, vote, and comment on all the entries. Finally, during the third month, the results are announced.

Head on over to Movie Poet and give it a go. – Don

Thanks to Earl Newton (Creator / Executive Producer of Stranger Things), we have the script (in pdf format) to Stranger Things Episode 5 Disconnect.

When their prize reality star goes missing, a monolithic network enlists the aid of the entire world to find him.

Written by Earl Newton. Story by Earl Newton and J. C. Hutchins

The rundown:
Watch Disconnect
Read the script (pdf)
Check Out the scripts to previous episodes of Stranger Things, the only science fiction anthology shot in High Def.