Thanks to Nick and Daily Script read July 21, 2005 sixth draft screenplay of Good Luck Chuck (recently release, starring Jessica Alba). Thanks to Sarah for the heads up and Natalie Portman. Com read the February 6, 2006 unspecified draft of The Other Boleyn Girl coming out in January. Check them out on the Movie Scripts page. – Don

… Apologies for the lack of updatedness. I have a quick update. Over on the Unproduced Scripts page there are fourteen original works up for your reading pleasure.

Thanks to ‘anonymous’ and Sci Fi Scripts read the October 24, 2000 “white” shooting draft of K-Pax, written by Charles Leavitt, based on the novel by Gene Brewer. That would be on the Movie Scripts page. – Don

Thanks to Joblo.com – hands down, the best website for movie news and reviews and movie hotties (if you are into that) for the heads up on The Bucket List. There is the August 11, 2006 unspecified draft script by Justin Zackham. Corprate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers have nothing in common except for their terminal illnesses. While sharing a hospital room together, they decide to leave it and do all the things they have ever wanted to do before they die according to their bucket list. In the process, both of them heal each other, become unlikely friends, and ultimately find the joy in life. This was filmed with Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. Guess who plays the billionaire? Well, check out the trailer on the official site and then tell me that this movie couldn’t have been pulled off with the roles reversed. You can check out the script over on the Movie Scripts page. Thanks Sam for the heads up on the broken link! – Don

WGA – Day 11 – and check out John August.com for strike happenings on the front lines as well as useful screenwriting tips.

Thanks to Leon for the heads up on the lastest over on Daily Script – Monkeybone. This is a February 3, 1999 seventh draft by Sam Hamm (based on the comic book ‘Dark Town’ by Kaja Blackley and Vanessa Chong). Sam Hamm has written, in my opinion, some of the best unproduced scripts out there. A quick search of Sam Hamm in the Script Search shows he’s written unproduced sequel to Batman, as well as Planet of the Apes and Watchmen. Monkeybone, which came out in 2001, is about a cartoonist who finds himself trapped within his own underground creation and must find a way to get back, while racing against his popular but treacherous character, Monkeybone. The film starred Brendan Fraser and Bridget Fonda. Check it out over on the Movie Scripts page.

Thanks to “Tierney Cat” for his insightful posting on the discussion board on a breakdown of what a WGA writer might typically earn. I think this sums it up pretty well, I’m on strike for the future of my union, for my health insurance and my pension. Right now, it’s sadly not about the writing which I love but about the business of writing which always plays like black comedy. Check out the rest of his post here.

I’ve just finished listening to Bill DeSmedt’s Singularity and thought I’d share. You can listen to the book over at Podiobooks.com. You don’t gotta have an MP3 player to hear the story. You can listen to it right on your computer.

On June 30, 1908, there was a massive explosion near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River. It was called the Tunguska Event. The explosion felled an estimated 80 million trees over 830 square miles. Yes, it was a big boom. Against this back drop, Bill DeSmedt’s Singularity weaves a present day tale of an astrophysicist, a rookie agent and an analyst who unearth a scheme to capture the submicroscopic black hole that caused the Tunguska Event and use its awesome power to transform the world. If you enjoy Tom Clancy and Michael Crichton you will dig this taut, fast-paced thriller. It is well read by the author – voices and all with plausible near future science and technology.

WGA – Day 6 – Strike news and insight over at Diaretical Throw-Up by David Press

Whiskey Loose Tongue (What a great name for a web site), home of The Val Lewton screenplay collection has posted a new section of The Whiskey Loose Tongue called Ephemera – an eclectic collection of screenplays to movies I’ve never heard of, but upon further research, discovered that I should have heard of them. Find therein Dead of Night , The Enchanted Cottage (Herman “Citizen Kane” Mankiewicz penned script , The Innocents (based on Henry James’ “The Turn of the Screw), Portrait of Jennie and Torrid Zone.

You can find them all on the Movie Scripts page, but you really should start on the Whiskey Loose Tongue, click on Ephemera and explore each of these for yourself. (Note: The scripts in the Ephemera section are PDFs and quite large). – Don

WGA – Day 4

You are probably wondering why Simply Scripts, a screenwriting site, doesn’t have a ton of strike news. Simply answer is password snafu on Sunday left me unable to access my own site. However, since I try to have updates scheduled a couple days in advance, the site, of its own accord, continued to spew out updates without human intervention. I am now back in control.

First, shoutouts to Jack (putting up the announcement you sent me now won’t work, tho if you have other words of encouragement, please send ’em over and I’ll get them up). And a shoutout to Sandy. Hope you can keep busy during this down time. I will have that most excellent update on the site shortly.

There is some excellent news and blogs from the front lines from folks like John August. Also, there is a page of multiple reports from the lines over at Deadline Hollywood Daily. The best information about the status of the strike (albeit one view of the status) can be found on the WGA (west) site. A lot of the big name writers are showing up in the papers and in the blogs talking about the strike. If any of the “Not so big” names want to send a report in, I’d be delighted to carry it on the site.

Lastly, while no one really knows how long this will last, one bit of ‘food for thought’ came to me from a couple of writers with regard to thinking that this is an opportunity to break into the biz. According to the WGA Strike Rules, “The Guild does not have the authority to discipline non members for strike breaking and/or scab writing. However, the Guild can and will bar that writer from future Guild membership.” (emphasis added) So, basically if you try to be opportunistic, you may very well screw yourself in the future. – Don

Update: This just in from Jack, “…I just talked to a few good people a WGA WEST and they say that any FILM STUDENT which means a person like myself who’s in college or some type of film school can participate. THE COLOR IS RED.”

LA Strike Locations and New York Strike Locations

Disturbing Behavior – August 7, 1997 unspecified draft script by Scott Rosenberg – hosted by: Horrorlair – in pdf format

A man moves to a new town and gets harassed by these annoyingly perfect “good kids”. He makes friends with the local rejects, one of which is a conspiracy theorist, another who is an albino, and a third who soon becomes a romantic interest. Together they discover that the jocks are actually lobotomized zombies and that they’re next in line.

Thanks to the fine folks over at Horror Lair and anonymous

Thanks to Donovan and Daily Script read this June 1, 1985 second draft
script of Beetle Juice. Check it out over on the Movie Scripts page. – Don

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