Update:The UCLA Extension Writer’s Program Script Library “is offline at the moment” to use their words. It may come back or not. Just don’t know – Don

The Nines – November 2006 final draft script by John August – hosted by: JohnAugust.com – in pdf format

A troubled actor, a television show runner, and an acclaimed video game designer find their lives intertwining in mysterious and unsettling ways.

You must read John’s blog post Summing up The Nines which will explain to you why you can’t find it in theatres.

And, Oh, John will be directing an episode of Heroes: Origins. – Don

Thanks to “a gangsta and a g” and sTAY rEEL “urban” movie blog you can read the April 8th, 2005 Revised Draft of Norbit by Eddie Murphy & Charlie Murphy, with revisions by Jay Scherick and David Ronn.

It would be on the Movie Scripts page.

Finally, all of the One Week Challenge scripts are up in one place. – Don

Thanks to ‘anonymous’ and Horror Lair and The Movie Page we have a compare and contrast opportunity. Over at Horror Lair is a February 14, 2005 unspecified draft script of The Hills Have Eyes by Alexandrew Aja & Gregory Levasseur (based on the original film by Wes Craven). This is the script to the remake of Wes Craven’s original film.
While it has been on the ‘net since May 13th 2006, there is also the 1976 unspecified draft script of Blood Relations The Sun Wars which was filmed as The Hills Have Eyes thanks to The Movie Page. If you creep over to the Movie Scripts page you can read both scripts and write a 10 page report, single spaced comparing and contrasting the two scripts…

Or, if that is too difficult, you can write a 12 page, properly formatted script for the October ’07 One Week Challenge which closes on Friday, October 5th at midnight. All you have to do is write a 12 page or less Comedy script (properly formatted) about Carving a Jack-o-lantern. You can then join the rest of the crew on the discussion board to talk about it. Is fun! And, our patient friends over at iScript.com is sponsoring the challenge. One script gets selected to be audio performed.

Check out Chris Shalom’s demo reel for his action, revenge drama piece Marigold. Mike Marigold. Hero at nineteen for saving nine people from a burning building. Wrongfully imprisoned at twenty for the ruthless murder of his wife and best friend. Escaped at twenty-one with one thing on his mind: revenge. But there are others who seek that very same…

Note clip has strong language and stuff blowing up.

You can read the script here in RTF format. Talk about the script or comment on the demo reel or leave a You Tube comment. – Don

Thanks to Donovan and Daily Script read this early draft of Dick Beebe’s Blair Witch II (which later became Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2. Donovan writes, [This is] an early draft, which unfortunately (and infuriatingly) is missing its second-last page: the climax of the entire script! Certain character(s) alive on page 101; those character(s) dead on 103. You can figure out what happened from what follows, but it annoyed the hell out of me when I discovered it.

The premise, college students at a Boston college become fascinated by the events of the three missing filmmakers in Maryland, so they decide to go into the same woods and find out what really happened.

Did you know? Like Blair Witch, the main characters are named after the actors who played them. However, since this film actually had a script, Dick Beebe had to give the characters names long before casting. This is why the names of the characters in this script are different from the names of the characters in the final movie…

Waddle on over to the Movie Scripts page and check it out. – Don

Thanks to Donovan and Daily Script read this early draft of Larry Cohen’s Cellular. Donovan writes, [This is] an early draft of Cellular which holds a lot of surprises if you’re familiar with the finished (and completely different) product. Cohen’s draft starts with the same premise, then veers off into unexpected territory. Enjoy.

The premise of the story is a young man receives a call on his cellular phone from a woman who says she’s been kidnapped, and thinks she’s going to be killed soon, along with her husband and son who the kidnappers have gone after next. The catch? She doesn’t know where she is and his cell phone battery might go dead soon…

Skip on over to the Movie Scripts page and check it out. – Don

{update: This is an early draft of Cellular. There is also a later draft of Cellular available on the ‘net that was heavily revised. }

Thanks to “Vern” for the heads up on this one. Over on Horror Lair, thanks to “Anonymous P” you can read Roman Polanski’s final draft script of Rosemary’s Baby which is based on the novel of the same name by Ira Levin. It centers on Rosemary Woodhouse, a young mother-to-be, who begins to suspect her elderly neighbors are not the kindly souls they appear to be. She soon discovers they are the leaders of a coven of witches and her husband, a struggling actor, allowed the devil to impregnate her in exchange for a successful career, but she is unable to convince anyone to believe her. She is eventually informed that she is the mother of the long-awaited anti-christ. You can check it out on the Movie Scripts page.

Just a heads up. Tomorrow at 11:59 pm eastern daylight time the genre and topic for the October, 2007 One Week Challenge will be announced. What is the One Week Challenge? The One Week Challenge is an exercise wherein you, the writer, have one week to write a short script based upon the genre and theme announced. It costs nothing to enter because it isn’t a contest and there are no prizes other than that warm, fuzzy feeling you get when you meet the challenge. One script will be selected to be audio performed by the fine folks at iScript.com. You can hear the last OWC selectee’s script, Bull Creek to give you an idea what iScript.com can do for your script. – Don

Thanks to “JBM” for the heads up and “Nick” and “Donovan” and Daily Script for these two scripts.

There is an unspecified draft of El Cantante – the Jennifer Lopez/Mark Anthony biopic of Hector Lavoe who is credited with starting the salsa movement in 1975 and bringing it to the United States.

In addition, there is now another, probably early draft of The Black Dahlia.

These would be on the Movie Scripts page. – Don