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Cherry – Undated, unspecified draft script by Angela Russo-Otstot and Jessica Goldberg (Based on the novel CHERRY by Nico Walker) – hosted by: Deadline – in pdf format
An Army medic suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder becomes a serial bank robber after an addiction to drugs puts him in debt.
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Thanks Barksid for the heads up on this script studios are posting for award consideration
The Half Of It – April 8, 2019 shooting draft script by Alice Wu – hosted by: Netflix – in pdf format
Bookish introvert Ellie Chu is perfectly content with her life: watching old movies with her widowed father and ghostwriting papers for her high school classmates to help pay the bills. But her side gig turns personal when lovelorn jock Paul Munsky hires her to craft love notes to Aster Flores — a smart, popular girl out of both their leagues… and Ellie’s own secret crush.
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Thanks to: Barksid and Bob for the heads up on this script up for award consideration.
Land – Undated, unspecified draft script by Jesse Chatham and Erin Dignam – hosted by: Focus Features – in pdf format
Edee, following a life-changing event, finds herself unable to stay connected to the world she once knew and in the face of that uncertainty, retreats to the magnificent, but unforgiving, wilds of the Rockies. After a local hunter brings her back from the brink of death, she must find a way to live again while building an unexpected friendship along the way.
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Over on the Unproduced Scripts page are fifteen original scripts for your reading pleasure.
And, the February, 2021 One Week Challenge just started!
Thanks to SW, Bob, Barksid and Richie for this heads up on this script posted for award consideration.
Mank – Undated, unspecified draft script by Jack Fincher – hosted by: Deadline Hollywood – in pdf format
1940. Film studio RKO hires 24-year-old wunderkind Orson Welles under a contract that gives him full creative control of his movies. For his first film, he calls in washed-up alcoholic Herman J Mankiewicz to write the screenplay. That film is “Citizen Kane,” and this is the story of how it was written.
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THE PERFECT COVER UP (5-page short thriller screenplay) Written by MARNIE MITCHELL
When a troubled man visits a tattoo shop to cover a bad tattoo, he ends up getting one that suits him perfectly.
“Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.” – Jack London, American Novelist.
Author, Jack London’s quote couldn’t apply more to Jerry, the deranged antagonist in writer, Marnie Mitchell’s cleverly original morality thriller, “The Perfect Cover Up”.
The story opens at a tattoo parlor called “Max Tats”, run by a cocaine-sniffing, heavily inked tattoo artist named – you guessed it – Max. It’s a slow night as he watches television while noshing on some Chinese food… until there’s a knock on the shop’s locked front door.
Enter Jerry. Jerry has a problem that he needs fixed. And that problem seems to be tattooed to the side of his face – a massive snake tattoo that he wants covered up.
We soon learn the origin of the snake tattoo:
JERRY
My father gave me this tattoo as a
punishment…for stealing a pack of
his cigarettes! I was thirteen! Did time
for marking me up! And for other
fucked up shit he did to me and my
sister. Just want it gone!
But this doesn’t seem to be the only reason Jerry so desperately wants to get this tattoo covered up. He seems to be very concerned with whether or not anyone else is there or if anyone knows Jerry is there. He even asks Max if he recognizes him from TV.
MAX
No. Don’t watch TV. Oh man…you
some kind of reality star? You the
next bachelor or something?
Max soon realizes that this is something serious when Jerry makes him cover up the tattoo at gunpoint – yeah, probably not a reality TV star.
As a very nervous Max covers up the tattoo under immense pressure, we learn a bit more about both characters, especially about Jerry’s tragic childhood and checkered past, being in and out of jail for most of his adult life. And, especially on this night, it seems that Jerry has recently gotten himself in a bit of trouble with the law. And he’s willing to do anything not to get caught, including covering up any distinct, identifying tattoos.
But we also learn that Max isn’t quite as feeble as he made himself out to be…
This is morality tale of a different kind with an incredibly satisfying ending that just goes to show – you can never hide from your past. Endlessly entertaining with an exclamation point of an ending, this is one story that will be hard to remove from your memory.
BUDGET: Low. One location, two actors and a few props.
ABOUT THE WRITER: Marnie is an award-winning screenwriter and 5-page contest junkie. Due to her addiction, she’s written over 80 shorts, 15 having been produced. Currently she’s working on her 8th feature, an adaptation of a horror short she wrote 10 years ago. Some of her work can be found on her site, http://www.brainfluffs.com
Read: THE PERFECT COVER UP (5-page short thriller screenplay)
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About the Reviewer: Michael J. Kospiah is the award-winning screenwriter of critically acclaimed indie-thriller, The Suicide Theory (79% Rotten Tomatoes – available on Amazon Prime, Itunes, Google Play, etc) and 2020’s upcoming Aussie thriller, Rage. His horror feature, They Never Left is currently in development.
Happy Valentine’s Day! Go read a script on the Unproduced Scripts page.
And/or check out what LC has cooked up for the February One Week Challenge!
Yours Truly by Steven Clark (4 page thriller in pdf format)
A suicidal man makes a last minute adjustment to his plans.
Thanks Joshua for the heads up on this which can be found on the Movie Scripts page. Reminder that there are hundreds of screenplays for your reading pleasure on the Movie screenplay page.
– Don
The Hulk – February 6, 200 second draft script by Michael France (based on characters by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby) – hosted by: DailyScript – in pdf format
Bruce is an ordinary Gamma expert who one day gets blasted with radiation and somehow survives. But in the process a monster was born. Now whenever he gets angry he grows bigger and stronger until he is no longer Bruce Banner. He becomes The Hulk
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