Thanks to Vern and Awesome Film read this early draft of Pretty Woman. Be aware, this is a much darker version of the final movie that came out. You can compare and contrast with the shooting version over on the Movie Scripts page. – Don

Better Days by Steven Cameron

The Original Pilot for Better Days which consists of a failed plot line where Jason and Kenny make bets to pass the time. 23 pages

Short Series – Comedy
Rated R (for crude, sexual humor)

Read the script (23 pages – pdf format). Discuss the script. Listen to the script:

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Gimme Credit Screenplay Competition ? Early bird Sept. 3, 2007 ($14 Super Short, $29 Short). Regular deadline Oct. 8, 2007 ($19, $34). Late deadline Nov. 14, 2007 ($24, $39). Withoutabox Extended Late deadline Dec. 3, 2007 ($29, $49).

Winning short script PRODUCED! All writers will receive feedback. Prizes for the Short category awarded to 2nd and 3rd place as well as an Artistic Vision Award. The top three in the Super Short category are entered into competition for the Grand Prize, among other prizes. Gimme Credit was created with the single purpose of producing one talented writer’s short script and giving exposure and development advice to as many writers as possible. Open to anyone anywhere who has ever wanted their work produced! Short category is for scripts up to 30 pages; Super Short category is for scripts up to five (5) pages. All live action genres welcome!

Visit http://www.gimmecreditcompetition.com for more information or to enter. – Don

I was cruising Joblo.com’s Top 10 Movie Cheerleaders when I came across this fantastic site for the 80’s cult classic Night of the Comet. Night of the Comet was one of the quintessential 80’s movies with big hair and shoulder pads. I was delighted to find an excellent transcript (not script ) of the movie on the download page. It is in PDF format and very well done. For those of you not well versed in Night of the Comet, it is about Two girls from the Valley wake up to find that a passing comet has eradicated their world and left behind a mysterious red-dust and a pack of cannibal mutants. With the help of a friendly truck driver, the girls save the earth from a villainous “think tank,” karate chop their way through flesh-eating zombies, and, of course, find time to go to the mall.

You can find this and other excellent transcripts (they are decents reads and follow the movie dialogu exactly) on the Movie Transcripts page. – Don

As promised, rather that just dump fifteen to thirty original scripts on the unproduced scripts page and say, “have at it”, I’ve randomly-ish pulled one and read it.

I read Lost and Found (click on the title when you get to the discussion board.). It is a short script – 12 pages in MS Word. I selected it because it was the last of the 16 original scripts I posted today. That is the only reason I picked it.

The log line is: Whilst camping, two young men come across a time capsule with documents and memorabilia 60 years old. Through examining the items they reflect on their own lives and dreams. .

The formatting is a bit off which I find distracting, but was nonetheless able push through that. The writer of the script, Nicholas, is from Australia. I love the non-American perspective of the world and interesting turn of phrase. I’d love to know what a ‘footy’ is. This is very much a contemporary piece with reference to events currently unfolding in our world.

If short dramatic pieces are not your bag, there are tons more scripts of every genre on the unproduced scripts page. – Don

Thanks to anonymous and Horror Lair read this undated, unspecified draft of Rowan Joffe and Juan Carlos Fresnadillo & Jesús Olmo’s 28 Weeks Later.

Seven months after the rage virus has annihilated the British isles, the US army declares that the war against infection has been won, and that the reconstruction of the country can begin. In the first wave of returning refugees, a family is reunited–but one of them unwillingly carries a terrible secret…

It would be found on the Movie Scripts page. – Don