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September 19, 2008 Revised Draft by Kurt Wimmer.
Current revisions by Frank Darabont.
Synopsis: An everyday guy decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets his family’s killers free. His target: The district attorney who orchestrated the deal.
Source: Digital – Pages: 123 – Size: 200 kb – IMDb
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March 4, 2008 Revised Draft by J.S. Cardone.
Synopsis: A military school student becomes suspicious about his mother’s new boyfriend.
Notes: No cover page.
Source: Digital – Pages: 130 – Size: 220 kb – IMDb
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October 15, 1985 Revised Draft by Donald Westlake.
Revised by David Loughery.
Synopsis: A “family values” man, Jerry Blake, marries widows and divorcées with children in search of the perfect family.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 118 – Size: 2.3 MB – IMDb
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October 20, 2005 Revised Draft by Spike Jonze & Dave Eggers.
Adapted from the book by Maurice Sendak.
Synopsis: An adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s story, where Max, a disobedient little boy sent to bed without his supper, creates his own world–a forest inhabited by ferocious wild creatures that crown Max as their ruler.
Notes: Missing page 100.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 111 – Size: 3.7 MB – IMDb
Before “Adoration,” I had only seen one other film from Atom Egoyan, which was called “Exotica.” That film had several issues, the biggest of which was its lingering plotlines that never went anywhere. With “Adoration,” Egoyan makes similar mistakes, but at the same time, makes new ones as well.
The film begins by introducing us to one of the main characters, Simon (Devon Bostick). During his French class, his teacher, Sabine (Arsinée Khanjian), gives an assignment to translate the story she . . .
Hawkeye Reviews: My One and OnlyI am not at all familiar with George Hamilton the actor, whose teen years this film is based on. In fact, after perusing through his filmography on IMDB, it turns out that I’ve only seen him in two projects: “Roots” and “The Godfather, Part III,” and I don’t even remember him specifically from those. I can’t tell you whether this film is accurate or not regarding the events, but I can tell you that it is rather entertaining in its . . .
Hawkeye Reviews: Whatever WorksWoody Allen has had an interesting string of recent projects. Some of these have worked like “Match Point,” “Scoop” (though I think I was one of the few who actually liked it), and “Vicky Cristina Barcelona.” Others have not been as good like “Cassandra’s Dream” or his most recent project, “Whatever Works.” Unfortunately, whatever works for Allen doesn’t necessarily work for an audience.
Boris Yellnikoff (Larry David) is a man with a very bleak and pessimistic view of the world who . . .
Hawkeye Reviews: Love Happens“Love Happens” is a film that has been taking a harsh beating from critics, which I found unusual as I was watching the first half of the film. The first half works rather well. It’s not great, but it felt as though it was setting up a touching story with its characters and that it had potential to be something better than those critics had been saying. But then the second half of the movie occurred, leaving its hope for . . .
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November, 1981 First Draft by Joe Eszterhas.
Synopsis: When a rock and roll singer is thought dead, his brother, a Cleveland cop, is suspicious and winds up very much out of his element tracking his brother’s glitzy and highly connected friends.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 137 – Size: 2.4 MB
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November 18, 1980 First Draft by Robert P. Davis.
Based upon the novel “The Divorce” by Robert P. Davis.
Synopsis: The wealthy, influential Morgans, a perfect couple, and their family are destroyed during divorce proceedings that become a community scandal and lead to violence.
Notes: Scanned by mypdfscripts.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 144 – Size: 4.3 MB
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April 13, 2006 Draft by Jacob Koskoff and Todd Louiso.
Synopsis: Former high school musical star, Marc Pease, finds himself still living in the past, eight years after graduating.
Source: Digital – Pages: 111 – Size: 172 KB – IMDb
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July 8, 1993 Draft by Robert Benton.
Based on the novel by Richard Russo.
Synopsis: An aging irresponsible misfit falls in love with an unhappily married younger woman.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 144 – Size: 4.3 MB – IMDb
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Undated, unspecified draft by Jeff Nathanson.
Synopsis: A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 134 – Size: 4.3 MB – IMDb
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Undated, unspecified draft by Eric C. Dickson.
Synopsis: A Los Angeles narcotics detective (Perkins) clashes with a small-town Utah Sheriff (Conaway) while investigating his girlfriend’s mysterious abduction thirty miles outside Kanab, Utah.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 122 – Size: 4.3 MB – IMDb
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Undated, unspecified draft by Eric C. Dickson.
Synopsis: A trio of convicted killers escape a prisoner transfer bus and find refuge at a secluded farm house. One of them has his own agenda, including keeping a corrupt police department from killing the family they’ve taken hostage.
Source: Digital – Pages: 125 – Size: 364 kb
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October 15, 2007 Draft by David Loughery.
Synopsis: A successful asset manager is blissfully happy in his career and in his marriage. But when a temp worker starts stalking him, all the things he’s worked so hard for are placed in jeopardy.
Source: Digital – Pages: 105 – Size: 137 kb – IMDb
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June 8, 2007 Draft by Ricky Gervais & Matthew Robinson.
Synopsis: A comedy set in a world where no one has ever lied, until a writer seizes the opportunity for personal gain.
Notes: Had seventeen mentions on the 2007 Black List.
Source: Digital – Pages: 117 – Size: 173 kb – IMDb
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June 4, 2007 Draft by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen.
Synopsis: A black comedy set in 1967 and centered on on Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern professor who watches his life unravel when his wife prepares to leave him because his inept brother won’t move out of the house.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 137 – Size: 1.8 MB – IMDb
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July 14, 2006 Draft by Shauna Cross.
Synopsis: In Bodeen, Texas, an indie-rock loving misfit finds a way of dealing with her small-town misery after she discovers a roller derby league in nearby Austin.
Notes: Had two mentions on the 2007 Black List.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 107 – Size: 2.6 MB – IMDb
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September 18, 2007 Draft by Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick.
Synopsis: Two men have found a way to survive in a world overrun by zombies.
Notes: Had five mentions on the 2007 Black List.
Source: Digital – Pages: 101 – Size: 1.1 MB – IMDb
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February 21, 2007 Fourth Draft by David Lemon.
Synopsis: A romantic comedy set in the world of battle re-enactments, about an irresponsible guy who has to shape up in order to win back his wife.
Source: Digital – Pages: 90 – Size: 217 kb – IMDb
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“Rules of Engagement” Part 1 of 6.
Undated Third Draft by Andy Diggle.
Source: Digital – Pages: 26 – Size: 87 kb – comicbookdb
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“Chain of Command”
Undated, unspecified draft by Andy Diggle.
Source: Digital – Pages: 46 – Size: 101 kb
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Undated Second Draft by Andy Diggle.
Source: Digital – Pages: 29 – Size: 76 kb – comicbookdb
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Part 1 of 6.
Undated Fourth Draft by Andy Diggle.
Source: Digital – Pages: 36 – Size: 98 kb – comicbookdb
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Chapter 1: “The Kestrel”
Undated Third Draft by Andy Diggle.
Source: Digital – Pages: 31 – Size: 87 kb – comicbookdb
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“In at the Deep End” Part 1 of 2.
Undated Third Draft by Andy Diggle.
Source: Digital – Pages: 28 – Size: 85 kb – comicbookdb
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“The Smoke”
Undated Second Draft revised for Lettering.
Source: Digital – Pages: 35 – Size: 91 kb – comicbookdb
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Undated Fifth Draft by Andy Diggle.
Source: Digital – Pages: 51 – Size: 118 kb – comicbookdb
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Part 1 of 6.
Undated Second Draft by Andy Diggle.
Source: Digital – Pages: 32 – Size: 99 kb – comicbookdb
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“Hammer Down” Part 1.
Undated Second Draft by Andy Diggle.
Source: Digital – Pages: 37 – Size: 95 kb – comicbookdb
During our CUT TO: Interview (which you seriously need to read if you haven’t already!), I asked David Lemon if he could recommend seven scripts that he thought people should read and possibly detail why someone should read those chosen scripts. I also stressed that this shouldn’t be thought of as a “best of” list, but rather, which scripts he thought would most help aspiring writers better understand the process and craft of screenwriting. . . .
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January 31, 1997 Revised Draft by Tim Herlihy.
Rewrite by Carrie Fisher. Revisions by Judd Apatow. Further Revisions by Tim Herlihy.
Synopsis: Robbie, the singer, and Julia, the waitress, are both engaged to be married but to the wrong people. Fortune intervenes to help them discover each other.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 101 – Size: 3.4 MB – IMDb
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August 9, 1988 Revised Draft by Robert Klane.
Revisions by Ted Kotcheff.
Synopsis: A pair of losers try to pretend that their murdered employer is really alive, but the murderer is out to “finish him off.”
Source: Scanned – Pages: 117 – Size: 2.8 MB – IMDb
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Undated, unspecified draft by Lionel Chetwynd.
Based on the book by Farley Mowat.
Synopsis: Charles Landon is an outsider, stranded with his family in a Newfoundland coastal resort, where he flies in the face of custom and fights an entire community to prevent a trapped whale’s slaughter with the support only of his wife and one of the locals.
Notes: No cover page.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 156 – Size: 3.7 MB – IMDb
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December 1, 1988 Revised First Draft by Tom Schulman.
Story by Alvin Sargent and Laura Ziskin.
Synopsis: A successful psychiatrist loses his mind after one of his most dependent patients, a highly manipulative obsessive-compulsive, tracks him down during his family vacation.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 137 – Size: 3.2 MB – IMDb
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January, 2007 Draft by Art Linson.
Based on the book “What Just Happened? Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Front Line” by Art Linson.
Synopsis: Two weeks in the life of a fading Hollywood producer who’s having a rough time trying to get his new picture made.
Source: Digital – Pages: 120 – Size: 175 kb – IMDb
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June 14, 1999 Draft by Clark Gregg.
Synopsis: The wife of a university research scientist believes that her lakeside Vermont home is haunted by a ghost — or that she’s losing her mind.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 110 – Size: 3.2 MB – IMDb
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June 15, 1999 Draft by Nancy Meyers.
Synopsis: After an accident, a chauvinistic executive gains the ability to hear what women are really thinking.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 125 – Size: 3.5 MB – IMDb
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Undated First Draft by Ronald Bass and Al Franken.
Synopsis: An airline pilot and his wife are forced to face the consequences of her alcoholism when her addictions threaten her life and their daughter’s safety. While the woman enters detox, her husband must face the truth of his enabling behavior.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 120 – Size: 3.1 MB – IMDb
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December 20, 2006 Fifth Production Draft by Susan Montford.
Based on a short story by Edward Bryant.
Synopsis: Della, a suburban housewife, heads to the mall on Christmas Eve and ends up fighting for her life against four hooligans in a nearby forest.
Source: Digital – Pages: 98 – Size: 197 kb – IMDb
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June 29, 1994 Draft by Dan Sullivan and Fred Lebow.
Synopsis: Lucy, a young Chicago transit worker, escapes her lonely existence when she rescues a handsome commuter she has admired from afar.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 119 – Size: 2.4 MB – IMDb
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December 22, 2006 Revised Draft by Jon Hoeber & Eric Hoeber.
Based on the graphic novel by Greg Rucka.
Revisions by David Griffiths & Peter Griffiths.
Current Revisions by Chad Hayes & Carey Hayes.
Synopsis: U.S. Marshal Carrie Stetko tracks a killer in Antarctica, as the sun is about to set for six months.
Source: Digital – Pages: 106 – Size: 328 kb – IMDb
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Undated Final Draft as Broadcast by Lila Garrett and Sandy Krinski.
Synopsis: An upper middle-class housewife whose life is jolted when her husband suddenly seeks divorce after 17 years of seemingly wedded bliss.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 125 – Size: 2.8 MB – IMDb
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September 23, 1985 Final Draft by James Cameron.
Synopsis: Lieutenant Ellen Ripley, the only survivor of the Nostromo, awakens fifty-seven years later from hypersleep to discover that LV-426 is now home of a terraforming colony. However, contact with the colony has been lost, causing a squad of space marines accompanied by Ripley to be sent there.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 106 – Size: 2.6 MB – IMDb
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February 28, 1985 Revised Fourth Draft by Robert Zemeckis & Bob Gale.
Synopsis: In 1985, Doc Brown invents time travel; in 1955, Marty McFly accidentally prevents his parents from meeting, putting his own existence at stake.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 147 – Size: 3.9 MB – IMDb
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October 9, 2003 Draft by Michael Arndt.
Synopsis: A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 110 – Size: 8.2 MB – IMDb
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September 12, 1997 Draft by M. Night Shyamalan.
Synopsis: A boy who communicates with spirits that don’t know they’re dead seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 127 – Size: 2.7 MB – IMDb
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Undated, unspecified draft by Billy Bob Thorton.
Synopsis: Karl Childers, a simple man hospitalized since his childhood murder of his mother and her lover, is released to start a new life in a small town.
Source: Digital – Pages: 102 – Size: 141 kb – IMDb
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November 4, 2007 Draft by Simon Beaufoy.
Synopsis: A Mumbai teen who grew up in the slums, becomes a contestant on the Indian version of “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” He is arrested under suspicion of cheating, and while being interrogated, events from his life history are shown which explain why he knows the answers.
Source: Digital – Pages: 122 – Size: 221 kb – IMDb
