My PDF Scripts is keeping up with the script goodness with Moon and first drafts of (500) Days of Summer and Ghost Rider.

Head over to the Movie Scripts page and check them out. – Don

Strings Attached Theater Company presents:

Page to Stage
Short Play Festival

See the result of Strings Attached’s collaboration with up-and-coming playwrights and directors as their work makes its stage debut.

The exploration of filling the void in one’s life often leads to happenstance experiences. One finds fulfillment or merely ends up where they started… Come see what happens!

Empiricalby Tariq Hamami
directed by Pirronne Yousefzadeh
featuring
Mike Lavoie, Amanda Broomell, Paul Terzenbach

Mission Unaccomplished by Craig McNulty
directed by Amanda Joshi
featuring Benjamin Becher, Aubrey Mozino

Aluminum Foil by Geoff Schuppert
directed by Alexis MacDonald
featuring Keith Boynton, Christopher LaPanta
(pictured above)

Night Train by Mel Nieves
directed by Shawn Renfro
featuring Brendan Wahlers, Alexis MacDonald

Sept 9th, 11th, 12th @ 8pm
Sept 13th @ 3pm
above dates include all plays including Night Train

Exclusive performances of Night Train:
Sept 10th @ 7pm & 9pm
Sept 12th @ 2pm

Roy Arias Studios & Theatres
300 West 43rd Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY
1-800-838-3006 event #77543

Tickets $20.00

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Click here to buy Sale Posters!

Taylor smiles as Parker closes the trunk.

“The Obsidian Key Part 4: Hocknot’s Loot” by Micah Ricke ~ First Place
Two siblings fight to escape a goblin bent on retrieving his treasure from the outer-world, and in the process, learn that there’s more to the treasure and their grandmother, than meets the eye.

“Different Strings” by Jon Hill ~ Second Place
A jaded rock star becomes disillusioned with life in the fast lane.

“A Perfect Match” by Sally Meyer ~ Third Place
After a tragic accident, a mother is forced to make a decision that will affect her life forever.

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

The OWC melody – some background on the music.

While you are waiting for me to stop mindless postings and get to work on getting the OWC scripts up, I thought I’d share some background on the melody that was provided by Norm Sherman of The Drabblecast. The melody provided for the OWC (which you can listen to here) came from Norm’s recent song The Heartache Over Innsmouth, written in honor of H. P. Lovecraft’s 119th birthday.

H.P. Lovecraft (in addition to being the patron saint of The Drabblecast) was an author of weird fiction stories in the early part of the 20th century on planet Earth. One of his most famous works is The Call of Cthulhu.

The song, known as a Bbardle, was commissioned by Tom Baker of Steradian Technologies (which makes guns for kids…). Also, if you make a generous donation to The Drabblecast, Norm will write a song for you.

Below is the music video of Heartache Over Innsmouth. The song makes much more sense if you are familiar with Lovecraft’s story The Shadow over Innsmouth. – Don

The OWC scripts have poured in and I’m in the process of processing them. I hope to have the first round up tomorrow. IN the meantime, as mentioned, there are twenty-seven or so original works up on the Unproduced Scripts page.

Also, thanks to Russell for the heads up on a number of new scripts up over at The Script Collector. A few scripts you can find are:
The Proposal,
Funny People,
The Time Traveler’s Wife,
G.I, Joe,
Public Enemies,
Star Trek,
500 Days of Summer,
Drag Me to Hell and more

While waiting in anticipation for the close of the OWC, over on the Unproduced Scripts page there are 26 original scripts up.

And, tick, tock the OWC challenge comes to a close. Get your scripts in here before 11:59 pm today. – Don

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