I got an awesome email from Chris Sparling, screenwriter of Buried.

With the film I wrote, BURIED, now out in theaters, I felt the time was right to finally release the production draft of the script (the previous draft that appeared online — after being leaked by someone — was an early draft).

This time around, I figured I’d preempt the leak by releasing the script myself 🙂

Congrats on running such a great, informative site for writers.

–Chris Sparling

Buried – July 25, 2009 production draft script by Chris Sparling – hosted by: SimplyScripts – in pdf format

Paul is a U.S. contractor working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it’s a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.

Information courtesy of imdb.com

Congrats to ScarTissue Films. The film, End of the Tour won Best Film, People’s Choice and Best Performance at the 3rd Hitters International Film Festival. End of the Tour is based on the script, End of the Tour by Pia.

A young man returns from his tour of duty only to find out that everything has changed. 1 page, pdf format)

Join the conversation about the film on the Discussion Board

While work is being performed on the server – Don

SimplyScripts Radio – The Mythic Edition: Interview with Pamela Jaye Smith

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The panel talks to Pamela Jaye Smith about the tools of story telling and applied mythology.

You can check out Pamela’s site at PamelaJayeSmith.net. Pamela is the author of Beyond the Hero’s Journey

Show Notes

• Prometheus
• Pygmalion
• Applied Mythology
• Colors
• Production Designers
• Incredible Shrinking Woman
• Necco Wafers
• Inception
• Hollywood Myths
• Orpheus and Eurydice
• Blake Snyder’s Save The Cat!
• Myths in Stories
• The two types of Plots
• Joseph Campbell Hero with a Thousand Faces and The Hero’s Journey
• Pamela Jaye Smith’s Beyond the Hero’s Journey
• Chris Vogler’s The Writers Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers
• Inner Drives
• Chakras
• Documentaries
• Alpha Babes: Women of Mythic Significance
• The Alpha Babe Academy

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SimplyScripts Radio is produced by Michael Cornetto and released under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives 3.0 license.

This episode the panel consisted of host, Michael Cornetto and panel members Pia and Don

Music provided by Incompetech.com.

Interested in joining the panel? Send an email to radiosimply (at) gmail.com

Please, we’d love to have feedback on the show.

iTunes users can subscribe to the SimplyScripts feed and have the show automatically downloaded to your iPod. – Don

You must write a script (properly formatted) between 6 and 10 pages. No more, no less (courier 12 point font). I strongly suggest you submit in PDF format

This month’s theme and genre:

Genre: Horror
Theme: It was a dark and stormy night
Limitations: You only have three actors – two male and one female. One male is in a wheelchair. All events must occur sometime between October 30th to November 1st. You can’t use the word Halloween. Everything occurs in and around an abandoned, rundown house. You can do anything to the house, except burn it down.

The scripts must be received by Friday, October 15th at 11:59 pm e.d.t.. Please put “(c) Copyright 2010” on your script. Note: This is NOT an anonymous exercise this year. Discussion board members, please submit your discussion board name, also. Scripts must be submitted here.

No gambling! No running with scissors. This is completely Free to enter

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This is only an exercise. There is no prize for winning (after all, we all win if we have fun). There will be no official judging for the best script (after all, we all win if we have fun).

The Schedule:
10/8 – theme and genre revealed
10/15 – submissions due
10/17 – 10/20 – scripts posted
10/31 – audio presentation of one selected script presented by iScript.com.

Thanks to The Daily Script and The Last Reveal there are two aswsome scripts on the ‘net which you can find on the Movie Scripts page.

First up: The Parallax View – Original Draft script by Lorenzo Semple Jr. (based on the novel by Loren Singer) (pdf format)

An ambitious reporter gets in way-over-his-head trouble while investigating a senator’s assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the worlds headlines.

And: Quebecois! – unproduced draft script by Paul Schrader (pdf format)

An unconventional organized crime story about the French/Italian power struggle in Canada. Check out The Last Reveal for an excellent writeup about Quebecois!.

Check ’em both out on the Movie Scripts page.

Pugumentary (pdf format) by Phil Clarke Jr. (dogglebe) has been produced and is available from Amazon. Talk about the script and the movie on the discussion board

A mockumentary about Stanley Sloane, a man who died, leaving behind twenty-two pugs. 36 pages – pdf format.

Check out the trailer:

Thanks to the folks over at Horror Screenplay Archive for the heads up on this.

Frozen – January 9, 2009 draft script by Adam Green – hosted by: Horror Screenplay Archive – in pdf format

Three skiers are stranded on a chairlift and forced to make life-or-death choices that prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death

Information courtesy of imdb.com

So, check out the Movie Scripts page for this and other scripts.

Michael Cornetto’s short script, a spec script written in 6 hours on assignment, The Honeymoon is Over was filmed as Anniversary by Jim Exton

Read the script and check out how it got translated to film.

The Honeymoon Is Over (pdf format) by Michael Cornetto

For five years, on the anniversary of his wife’s death, in order to pay his respects Arthur has visited room 323, the room in which she died. This year Arthur tells her that he’s met someone else and he’s ready to move on. But his dead wife isn’t going to take this news lying down. short, 9 pages, pdf format.

talk about it on the discussion board.