Over on the Unproduced Scripts page are twenty five original scripts. Go read ’em.

– Don

You have seven days to write a screenplay between 5 and 10 pages. The screenplay must be properly formatted and in PDF format on the following theme:

Genre: any
Budget: any
Pages: 5-10 not including title page
Criteria 1: pick one of sand, snow, or space
Criteria 2: pick one of a shovel, a syringe, a seed, a shipwreck, a snake, or a skeleton
Criteria 3: pick one of a storm, a song, or a sickness
Submissions must contain all three criteria.

Please visit the Discussion Board for the answers to questions you may have.

The scripts are due on Friday, January 24th at 11:59PM EST and must be submitted to: SimplyScripts.com/owc.

Timeline:
1/24 – Scripts are due to SimplyScripts.com/owc
1/31 or so – votes due

The Gist

5 – 10 pages, properly formatted & saved as a PDF file, Script submitted anonymously, Free to submit*, This isn’t a contest. There are no prizes. One entry per person.

*Free to submit. But, you are committing to reading and reviewing as many scripts as you can.

You can revise your script as many times as you wish up until the deadline.

Participants are strongly encouraged to read and comment/review on the scripts submitted.

Do not put your real name on your script. However, please use your real name when submitting your script. (After the challenge closes you can either have your script removed or resubmit with your script with your name on it.

Please put © 2020 on the bottom left corner of your title page.

Best of luck and I hope you guys have a lot of fun with this contest.

There will be a Writer’s Choice wherein the participants (and only the participants) will be asked to select the three scripts he or she likes the best.

The Oscar nominations are out. Below are the nominated scripts for Best Original and Best Adapted Screenplays. Also check out other Scripts Studios are Posting for 2019 – 2020 Script Award Consideration

Best Adapted Screenplay

The Irishman – undated, final shooting script script by Steven Zaillian – hosted by: Netflix – in pdf format

Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran is a man with a lot on his mind. The former labor union high official and hitman, learned to kill serving in Italy during the Second World War. He now looks back on his life and the hits that defined his mob career, maintaining connections with the Bufalino crime family. In particular, the part he claims to have played in the disappearance of his life-long friend, Jimmy Hoffa, the former president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, who mysteriously vanished in late July 1975 at the age of 62.

Information courtesy of imdb.com

Jo Jo Rabbit – March 15, 2012 draft script by Taika Waiiti – hosted by: Deadline – in pdf format
Jo Jo Rabbit – February 8, 2019 draft script by Taika Waiiti – hosted by: Fox Searchlight – in pdf format

A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy named Jojo whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.

Information courtesy of imdb.com

Joker – December 1, 2018 Final Shooting script by Todd Phillips & Scott Silver – hosted by: Warner Bros – in pdf format

In Gotham City, mentally-troubled comedian Arthur Fleck is disregarded and mistreated by society. He then embarks on a downward spiral of revolution and bloody crime. This path brings him face-to-face with his alter-ego: “The Joker”.

Information courtesy of imdb.com

Little Women – undated, unspecified draft script by Greta Gerwig (Based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott) – hosted by: Sony Pictures – in pdf format

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

Information courtesy of imdb.com

The Two Popes – July 24, 2019 final draft script by Anthony McCarten – hosted by: Netflix – in pdf format

Behind Vatican walls, the conservative Pope Benedict and the liberal future Pope Francis must find common ground to forge a new path for the Catholic Church.

Information courtesy of imdb.com

Best Original Screenplay

1917 – undated, unspecified draft script by Sam Mendes & Krysty Wilson-Cairns – hosted by: Universal Pictures – in pdf format

Two young British soldiers during the First World War are given an impossible mission: deliver a message deep in enemy territory that will stop 1,600 men, and one of the soldier’s brothers, from walking straight into a deadly trap.

Information courtesy of imdb.com

Knives Out – undated, unspecified ‘screen script’ draft script by Rian Johnson – hosted by: Lionsgate – in pdf format

When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan’s dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth behind Harlan’s untimely death. 

Information courtesy of imdb.com

Marriage Story – undated, unspecified draft script by Noah Baumbach – hosted by: Netflix – in pdf format

Charlie Barber is a successful theater director in New York City. His theater company is currently producing a play that stars his wife Nicole, a former teen film actress. The couple is experiencing marital troubles and sees a mediator, who suggests they each write down what they like about one another, but Nicole is too embarrassed to read hers aloud and they decide to forego the counseling.

Information courtesy of imdb.com

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – by Quentin Tarantino (Not Available, Yet)

A faded television actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the film industry during the final years of Hollywood’s Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles.

Information courtesy of imdb.com

Parasite – undated, unspecified draft fyc script by Bong Joon Ho & Han Jin Won – hosted by: Deadline – in pdf format

Jobless, penniless, and, above all, hopeless, the unmotivated patriarch, Ki-taek, and his equally unambitious family–his supportive wife, Chung-sook; his cynical twentysomething daughter, Ki-jung, and his college-age son, Ki-woo–occupy themselves by working for peanuts in their squalid basement-level apartment. Then, by sheer luck, a lucrative business proposition will pave the way for an insidiously subtle scheme, as Ki-woo summons up the courage to pose as an English tutor for the teenage daughter of the affluent Park family. Now, the stage seems set for an unceasing winner-take-all class war. How does one get rid of a parasite? 

Information courtesy of imdb.com

The last of the winter holidays are over. I think. Getting back on the Original Script Sunday schedule. So, over on the Original Scripts page are twenty three original scripts for your reading pleasure.

– Don

Buck Henry, the legendary screenwriter behind The Graduate and What’s Up, Doc? who also co-created Get Smart and was a regular presence in the early years of Saturday Night Live, died tonight of a heart attack at Cedars-Sinai Health Center in Los Angeles. He was 89. Read more on Deadline

The Graduate – march 29, 1967 final draft script by Buck Henry – hosted by: Awesome Movie Scripts – in html format
The Graduate – unspecified script by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry – hosted by: DailyScript – in txt format

A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.

Information courtesy of imdb.com

Thanks Barksid for the h/u.

Parasite – undated, unspecified draft fyc script by Bong Joon Ho & Han Jin Won – hosted by: Deadline – in pdf format

Written in haste.

– Don