Studios are offering up a bunch of their films' screenplays for consideration of an Academy Award nomination. Read 'em! They're good! They're free! Here's a roundup of what's currently available with links to the script downloads:
CHANGELING - undated, unspecified draft script by J. Michael Straczynski
THE DARK KNIGHT - undated, unspecified draft script by Jonathan & Christopher Nolan
DEFIANCE - September 9, 2007 revised tan draft script by Clayton Frohman & Edward Zwick (based on the book by Nechama Tec)
DOUBT - undated, unspecified draft script by John Patrick Shanley (based in his stage play)
THE DUCHESS - November 20, 2007 shooting draft script by Jeffery Hatcher and Anders Thomas Jensen and Saul Dibb (based on the book "Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire" by Amanda Foreman)
FROST/NIXON - August 27, 2007 revised yellow draft script by Peter Morgan
HAPPY-GO-LUCKY - undated, unspecified draft script by Mike Leigh
WALL-E - undated, unspecified draft script by Andrew Stanton & Jim Reardon (original story by Andrew Stanton & Pete Docter)
VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA - undated, unspecified draft script by Woody Allen
Thank you to SimplyScripts for the heads-up.
1 comment:
The Dark Knight is by far one of my favorite films of the year, though perhaps my man-crush on Batman makes me a little biased. I've taken a look at the script, though, and it's very clearly a writer-director's script. By that, I mean that a lot of the descriptions and action across the page are concise to the point of being almost underwhelming. I'm not saying this is a bad thing, but it strikes me as a clear difference between the script that Chris Nolan just-the-writer would have written, versus the one that Chris Nolan, writer-director wrote. He knew what needed to happen in each beat, and therefore didn't waste time explainig it in great detail. There's a lesson in writing action in there. Personally, I would have broken a few things out more, but it's certainly an approach to writing action worth studying.
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