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Manhasset — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:23:23 -0800

Simply Scripts is a repository of screenplays. Sort of a collection of links to scripts hosted on other sites (like official studio or screenwriter sites). There's some neat stuff there. For instance, I found a Coen brothers script (pdf), based on a James Dickey novel, I'd never heard of before.

By: Navelgazer

Navelgazer — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:47:42 -0800

They have Eternal Sunshine. They pass my test.

By: funkbrain

funkbrain — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:44:53 -0800

Nice! They have the screenplay for Children of Men, too!

By: funkbrain

funkbrain — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:47:18 -0800

Well, they have a screenplay for Children of Men. Cool, nonetheless.

By: twoleftfeet

twoleftfeet — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:52:37 -0800

Previously: ScriptORama and Pilot School

By: CitrusFreak12

CitrusFreak12 — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:26:06 -0800

Nonsnark honest question: What are the uses for this, besides reading your favorite movie like a book?

By: RavinDave

RavinDave — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:30:33 -0800

Back in Film Class, in the pre-web days -- the major mail-order outlets used to charge around $20-40 bucks a crack for scripts. More (much more) if it was in high demand. Bet they LOVE internet.

By: PareidoliaticBoy

PareidoliaticBoy — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:07:19 -0800

OOOOO! Shiny. Me like.

By: drjimmy11

drjimmy11 — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:03:10 -0800

Nonsnark honest question: What are the uses for this, besides reading your favorite movie like a book? As a screenwriter, I sometimes find it useful to check out scripts of produced films, to learn more about how stories are translated from the page to the screen. Of course, I don't post the links to Metafilter, for the same reason I don't post links to torrent sites or Limewire.

By: drjimmy11

drjimmy11 — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:06:58 -0800

Put another way: Yes, believe it or not, a movie script really is a creative work, just like a song or a book or the finished movie derived from it, and yes they are under copyright, and yes, stealing them is illegal. Also, sales of the paper script are one of the few places where the WGA contract dictates screenwriters be included in the film's profits, so downloading these is taking money directly from their pockets.

By: drjimmy11

drjimmy11 — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:09:40 -0800

Ooops. Scratch the sanctimony. This site actually seems to contain legit links to studio websites. Most script sites do not. My bad.

By: jabberjaw

jabberjaw — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:25:10 -0800

Hm. Potentially a greatest movie never made (my related askme question) in the unproduced scripts section. I'm browsing the Coen Bros script now. Thanks!

By: RavinDave

RavinDave — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 03:10:18 -0800

How about the greatest movie MADE, but never released and you'll never see it? Roberto Benigni got a best-actor Oscar for his version.

By: squarehead

squarehead — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:03:41 -0800

Thanks for this. I read the novel To The White Sea when I found out that the Coen brothers were going to be adapting it and had already written a script. Brad Pitt had signed on as the lead if I remember correctly. But then it never happened. Now I can read it at least. This also reminded me that David Lynch's scripts for Ronnie Rocket and One Saliva Bubble are available on the web (and through this site) to be read. So thanks.

By: Navelgazer

Navelgazer — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:36:22 -0800

Back in Film Class, in the pre-web days -- the major mail-order outlets used to charge around $20-40 bucks a crack for scripts. More (much more) if it was in high demand. When I was in film school (NYU, so this isn't quite as bizarre as it sounds) there were a few hustler-types who would set up their blankets outside 721 Broadway selling scripts they'd obviously transcribed themselves to the students exiting the building. Also, RavinDave - there's basically unanimous consent that "The Day the Clown Cried" is awful, from everyone involved, as well as from Harry Shearer, one of the only people who's ever been allowed to watch it. The whole time during production Lewis was reportedly asking why the hell they even cast him in the role, he was so ill-suited to the material.