On the unproduced scripts page we have Alan’s supernatural drama The Touch about a 10-year-old with supernatural powers; Ayham’s drama The Princess of Kandahar about friendship and survival in the mean streets of Kandahar; and Eric Dickson’s Zodiac Thriller Night of the Red Phantom. By the way, Eric is the screenwriter of the upcoming The Utah Murder Project.

Thanks to “anonymous” and Daily Script read Black Snake Moan. Find it on the Movie Scripts page.

Thanks to Daily Script and Eric Dickson, read the writer’s draft of the upcoming The Utah Murder Project.

From the mind what brought you PlanetFall and Horror, Inc (that would be Michael Hegle) read Jim Barrett’s Terror Report. Both would be found on the Movie Scripts page.

And, making good on a promise from about six years ago, see the listing of movie scripts by genre.

Action  Adventure  Animation  Biography  Comedy  Crime  Documentary  Drama  Family  Fantasy  Film-Noir  History  Horror  Musical  Mystery  Romance  Sci-Fi  Short  Silent  Sports  Suspense  Thriller  War  Western 

Submission forms and contact forms are still down. Still working on a solution. – Don

I get a lot of requests for scripts in foreign languages. I have a pretty sparse collection (but still, the biggest I’ve seen on the ‘net) of scripts in languages other than English. Sam has sent over his unproduced work Samuel Dalva for you readers and learners of Spanish. This is a mystery of two men, Leo and Samuel who live in different times and different places and who’s lives are intertwined. Check out Sam’s work on the Non English Scripts page. (Does anyone have a suggestion for a better name?)

Thank you to Spence and an Anonymous donor for their generous donations to the site. In Spence’s case, this is three months overdue. My apologies. Thanks for helping keep the site going.

Lastly, a shout out to Tim McG – I now know that at least one person subscribes to the RSS feed. – Don

Thanks to “No One” and Daily Script Read this early draft of the latest movie in the Rocky franchise – Rocky: Puncher’s Chance (renamed as Rocky Balboa. Thanks to “anonymous” and Horror Lair read this early draft of The Number 23. Lastly, thanks to “Alex” and Martin Amis Web , you can read this unproduced screenplay
by Roberta Hanley of Martin Amis’ book London Fields. At one point David Cronenberg was attached to direct. These and more can be found on the Movie Scripts page. – Don

Congratulations to William Monahan for best adapted screenplay – The Departed – Thanks to Warner Bros.

Congratulations to Michael Arndt for best original screenplay – Little Miss Sunshine – Thanks to DailyScript.

Interesting that the two winners were two of the three nominated scripts available on the ‘net.
Read other Oscar scripts. – Don

Thanks to Matt for the heads up on a reappearing movie script this one, nominated for best adapted screenplay, William Monahan’s The Departed brought to you by Warner Bros.. This just in Daily Script has two more Oscar scripts up – Little Miss Sunshine (thanks T.M.) and Blood Diamond (thanks NoName)

For those keeping score on what nominated screenplays are on the ‘net:

Best Adapted Screenplay:
# Sacha Baron Cohen and Anthony Hines and Peter Baynham and Dan Mazer and Todd Phillips, Borat
# Alfonso Cuaron and Timothy J. Sexton and David Arata and Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, Children of Men
# William Monahan, The Departed (pdf)
# Todd Field and Tom Perrotta, Little Children
# Patrick Marber, Notes on a Scandal

Best Original Screenplay:
# Guillermo Arriaga, Babel
# Iris Yamashita and Paul Haggis, Letters From Iwo Jima
# Michael Arndt, Little Miss Sunshine (pdf)
# Guillermo del Toro, Pan?s Labyrinth (pdf)
# Peter Morgan, The Queen

Screenplays of other Oscar nominated films: (pdf)

# Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (Art Direction) – Thanks Word Player)
# The Prestige (Art Direction) – Thanks Daily Script)
# The Devil Wears Prada (Actress, Costume Design) – Thanks Daily Script)
# Blood Diamond (Actor Leading, Actor Support, Sound Editing, Film Editing, Sound Mixing) – Thanks Daily Script)

Read oscar winning screenplays from the past on the Oscar Winners page. And, of course, read other movie scripts on the Movie Scripts Page. – Don

Thanks to Daily Script and David, read this draft of the 1981 Oscar nominated screenplay (for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium) The Stunt Man. Check it out on the Movie Scripts page.

Oh, by the way, The Prestige is coming out on DVD this Tuesday, the 20th. This is definitely one movie that you have to see more than once. Brilliant. – Don

Four new scripts up on the Movie Scripts page.

Thanks to Laurie, who has the best Richard Stanley fan website on the ‘net with Between Death and the Devil, you can read Hardware 2: Ground Zero the unproduced sequel to Hardware. Richard Stanley wrote, among other things, Hardware and the screenplay adaptation of The Island of Dr. Moreau. Laurie was fortunate enough to get a copy of Richard Stanley’s sequel (courtesy of Richard Stanley himself, I believe) Hardware 2: Ground Zero. You can find the script to both Hardware and The Island of Dr. Moreauon Laurie’s site or head over to the ‘H’ scripts or ‘I’ scriptssection.

Russell, who previously gave us the heads up on two versions of Pan’s Labyrinth, points us to a cutting continuity script of Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights courtesy of the British Film Institute. I strongly suspect that this was written up long after Chaplin’s 1931 movie came out. Nonetheless, an interesting read.

The consistently excellent Daily Script has two new scripts up. There is Anthony S. Cipriano’s Twelve and Holding which premired at the Toronto International Film Festival and has been nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. This is a “Stand by Me” story of four twelve year old children who learn to deal with a personal tragic event. There is also Jeff and Tom Zuber’s Little Athens (The film starred, among others, Jorge Garcia of “Lost”.) Little Athens follows a whirlwind day in the hapless lives of small town youth caught in a dead-end post-high school void. The journeys of four groups of late teens/early twenty-somethings unfold through four different storylines, their separate trails converging at an explosive house party. You all have “Script Chick” to thank for their appearance on the ‘net.

On the Unproduced Scripts page there are nearly forty new and revised scripts up that run the gamut from shorts to full length scripts, from action to thriller. Can’t decide? Why not start with the Unproduced Script of the Day? Once a day a randomly selected script appears. I can not promise you anything about the daily selection – it could be good, bad or indifferent. When you are done reading, you can talk about it on the discussion board – Don

Thanks to Russell for the heads up on this. Courtesy of the official Pan’s Labyrinth website, you can read Guillermo del Toro’s Oscar nominated screenplay El Laberinto del Fauno (Pan’s Labyrinth) . The script was written in Spanish. You can read the an undated, unspecified draft of El Laberinto del Fauno in the original Spanish OR you can read an English translation of the unspecified draft script of Pan’s Labyrinth. You can read more scripts on the movie scripts page.

Last year, Syriana was the only Oscar nominated screenplay that the studio posted to the web. Pan’s Labyrinth marks the only award nominated screenplay (Oscars or Golden Globes) posted to the web by the studios. I’d hoped there would be more.

To refresh, here are the nominees for writing.

# Sacha Baron Cohen and Anthony Hines and Peter Baynham and Dan Mazer and Todd Phillips, Borat
# Alfonso Cuaron and Timothy J. Sexton and David Arata and Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, Children of Men
# William Monahan, The Departed
# Todd Field and Tom Perrotta, Little Children
# Patrick Marber, Notes on a Scandal

Best Original Screenplay:
# Guillermo Arriaga, Babel
# Iris Yamashita and Paul Haggis, Letters From Iwo Jima
# Michael Arndt, Little Miss Sunshine
# Guillermo del Toro, Pan’s Labyrinth
# Peter Morgan, The Queen

– Don