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1954 Shooting Script by Budd Schulberg.
Synopsis: An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses.
Source: Digital – Pages: 138 – Size: 160 kb – IMDb
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1975 Shooting Script by Lawrence Hauben & Bo Goldman.
Based on the novel by Ken Kesey.
Synopsis: Upon arrival at a mental institution, a brash rebel rallies the patients together to take on the oppressive Nurse Ratched, a woman more a dictator than a nurse.
Source: Digital – Pages: 140 – Size: 160 kb – IMDb
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May 3, 1932 Draft by Wilson Mizner and Joseph Jackson.
Story by Robert Lord.
Synopsis: A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other’s secret.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 107 – Size: 2.9 MB – IMDb
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September 21, 1979 Second Draft by Alvin Sargent.
Synopsis: The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 131 – Size: 4.1 MB – IMDb
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Undated, unspecified draft by Kurt Luedtke.
Synopsis: In 20th century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate but ultimately doomed love affair with a free-sprited big-game hunter.
Notes: No cover page.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 131 – Size: 3.0 MB – IMDb
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February 1, 1969 Shooting Script by Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North.
Synopsis: The story of General George S Patton, Jr. during the World War II phase of the controversial American general’s career.
Note: Low quality scan.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 160 – Size: 1.1 MB – IMDb
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Undated, unspecified draft by Jane Campion.
Synopsis: A mute woman along with her young daughter, and her prized piano, are sent to 1850s New Zealand for an arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner, and she’s soon lusted after by a local worker on the plantation.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 98 – Size: 2.1 MB – IMDb
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January 31, 1983 First Draft by Robert Benton.
Synopsis: In 1930’s Southern US, a widow and her family try to run their cotton farm with the help of a disparate group of friends.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 130 – Size: 3.8 MB – IMDb
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August 12, 1983 Third Draft by Robert Benton.
Synopsis: In 1930′s Southern US, a widow and her family try to run their cotton farm with the help of a disparate group of friends.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 136 – Size: 5.7 MB – IMDb
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March 1967 Continuity Script by Mel Brooks.
Synopsis: Producers Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom make money by producing a sure-fire flop.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 102 – Size: 2.6 MB – IMDb
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November 4, 2007 Revised Draft by Ronan Bennett.
Revisions by Michael Mann & Ann Biderman. Current revisions by Michael Mann.
Synopsis: The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 132 – Size: 4.4 MB – IMDb
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August 23, 2008 Revised Draft by Ronan Bennett.
Revisions by Michael Mann & Ann Biderman. Current revisions by Michael Mann.
Synopsis: The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 191 – Size: 17.1 MB – IMDb
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November 29, 1993 Revised Draft by Michael Mann.
Notes: An early draft of what would eventually become “Public Enemies.” This draft doesn’t feature the John Dillinger/Melvin Purvis storyline, but instead focuses on Alvin Karpis who is best known as the last “public enemy” to be captured.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 136 – Size: 988 kb – IMDb
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January 16, 1990 Revised Second Draft by Michael Mann.
Notes: An extremely early draft of what would eventually become “Public Enemies.” This draft doesn’t feature the John Dillinger/Melvin Purvis storyline, but instead focuses on Harry Campbell who was a known associate of Alvin Karpis, which Mann would feature in his next version of the story idea: Public Enemy No. 1
Source: Scanned – Pages: 120 – Size: 3.1 MB – IMDb
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Undated, unspecified draft by Charlie Kaufman.
Synopsis: A poet named Pants walks out on his wife and goes “on a quest to discover America, then capture it in poem.”
Notes: Missing the first two pages.
Source: Digital – Pages: 49 – Size: 143 kb
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Undated, unspecified draft by Joe Penhall.
Based on “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy.
Synopsis: A father and son walk for months across a ravaged, post-apocalyptic landscape in search of civilization.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 113 – Size: 3.2 MB – IMDb
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Undated, unspecified draft by Joel Coen & 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: Digital – Pages: 134 – Size: 297 kb – IMDb
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October 15, 2004 Revised Draft by Steve Knight.
Synopsis: Drama is set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 133 – Size: 1.9 MB
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October 25, 2007 Draft by Cary Fukunaga.
Synopsis: After murdering his gang’s leader, a teenager joins a family of Honduran immigrants making the dangerous journey across Mexico to the United States, avoiding a fellow gang member who has been sent to kill him along the way.
Notes: This is an English Version of the script. The Shooting Script is in colloquial Spanish.
Source: Digital – Pages: 107 – Size: 217 kb – IMDb
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Undated, unspecified draft by Tom Ford and David Scearce.
Based on the novel by Christopher Isherwood.
Synopsis: A story that centers on an English professor who, after the sudden death of his partner tries to go about his typical day in Los Angeles.
Source: Digital – Pages: 94 – Size: 147 kb – IMDb
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October 22, 2007 Shooting Script by Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck.
Synopsis: Dominican baseball star Miguel “Sugar” Santos is recruited to play in the U.S. minor-leagues.
Source: Digital – Pages: 114 – Size: 217 kb – IMDb
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March 5, 2007 Revised Draft by Megan Holley.
Synopsis: In order to raise the tuition to send her young son to private school, a mom starts an unusual business — a biohazard removal/crime scene clean-up service — with her unreliable sister.
Source: Digital – Pages: 134 – Size: 193 kb – IMDb
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November 4, 2005 Third Draft by Barry L. Levy.
Synopsis: The attempted assassination of the American President is told and re-told from several different perspectives.
Source: Digital – Pages: 108 – Size: 174 kb – IMDb
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November 21, 2008 Revised Draft by Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers.
Based on “Where the Wild Things Are” 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: Digital – Pages: 87 – Size: 236 kb – IMDb
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Undated, unspecified draft by Michael Haneke.
Synopsis: Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. The abused and suppressed children of the villagers seem to be at the heart of this mystery.
Source: Digital – Pages: 101 – Size: 222 kb – IMDb
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February, 1990 Draft by John Sayles.
Based on the book by Michael Dorris.
Synopsis: This epic tale interweaves the lives of three generations of American Indian women coming of age and striving for personal identity.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 123 – Size: 2.4 MB
Coco Chanel is probably the most famous name in fashion in the 20th century. Even for someone such as myself, who has practically no knowledge of designer labels, Chanel’s is a name that is very familiar from the fashion world. “Coco Before Chanel” presents, as its title indicates, her life before she started her fashion line.
The film starts with Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel (Played as an older woman by Audrey Toutou) and her sister, Adrienne (Later played by Marie Gillain) at . . .
CM Houghton Reviews: Comic ConLogline: To save their beloved neighborhood comic shop, a justice league of comic geeks must plan and execute a daring heist at Comic-Con.
Background: The script’s writers met while both attended Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Despite making the Black List, a list of ‘hot’ screenplays (not necessarily a best-of list), this film doesn’t look to be in any imminent danger of being produced. Although this project doesn’t have any recent news on it, the script was hot . . .
Jeff Beck Reviews: It’s ComplicatedNancy Meyers’s “It’s Complicated” is not really as complicated as a typical synopsis of it would seem. It’s actually a rather delightful and hilarious comedy with some standout performances from its cast. That’s not to say it doesn’t have a few problems, which it does, but the film makes up for them in unexpected ways.
Jane (Meryl Streep) and Jake (Alec Baldwin) have been divorced for ten years. Jake is now married to Agness (Lake Bell), who has a kid from . . .
Jeff Beck Reviews: The Princess and the FrogDisney returns to the art of hand-drawn animation with its latest feature “The Princess and the Frog.” It’s quite refreshing to see a film done in this manner once again, the way it used to be done before computer animation became commonplace. Unfortunately, the charm of its look can only take the movie so far.
The film begins with Tiana (Voice of Elizabeth M. Dampier) as a little girl, who lives in New Orleans with her mother, Eudora (Voice of . . .
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July 14, 2008 Draft by Nancy Meyers.
Synopsis: Well, it’s… uh… complicated?
Source: Scanned – Pages: 128 – Size: 3.3 MB – IMDb
Writer/Director Jason Reitman has done something that very few directors are able to do nowadays. He has given us three outstanding films in a row: “Thank You For Smoking,” “Juno,” and now his latest project, “Up in the Air.” His new film is a smart, edgy comedy/drama that actually has a lot of relevance to today’s economy and the newly unemployed.
Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) is a corporate downsizer. When a company doesn’t want the responsibility of firing one of their . . .
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Undated, unspecified scriptment by James Cameron.
Synopsis: A paraplegic marine dispatched to the planet Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 224 – Size: 3.8 MB – IMDb
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Undated, unspecified draft by Nancy Meyers.
Synopsis: Well, it’s… uh… complicated?
Source: Digital – Pages: 118 – Size: 180 kb – IMDb
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May 26, 2007 Draft by Terry Gilliam and Charles McKeown.
Based on A PAINFULLY ORIGINAL IDEA.
Synopsis: A story-telling doctor’s deal with the devil sends him scrambling to save his daughter on the eve of her 16th birthday.
Source: Digital – Pages: 122 – Size: 215 kb – IMDb
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April 7, 2008 Revised Draft by Terry Gilliam and Charles McKeown.
Synopsis: A story-telling doctor’s deal with the devil sends him scrambling to save his daughter on the eve of her 16th birthday.
Source: Digital – Pages: 135 – Size: 222 kb – IMDb
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March 14, 2008 Revised Fifth Draft by Mike Johnson.
Story by Lionel Wigram. Current revisions by Anthony Peckham. Based on the books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Synopsis: Detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England.
Source: Digital – Pages: 115 – Size: 229 kb – IMDb
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Undated, unspecified draft by Matt Allen & Caleb Wilson.
Synopsis: A couple struggles to visit all four of their divorced parents on Christmas Day.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 106 – Size: 2.8 MB – IMDb
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Undated, unspecified draft by Roy Moore.
Synopsis: A sorority house is terrorized by a stranger who makes frightening phone calls and then murders the sorority sisters during Christmas break.
Notes: Script pages vary between typed and handwritten and also contain sporadic notes.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 161 – Size: 4.1 MB – IMDb
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October 19, 2005 Draft by Glen Morgan.
Based on the film “Black Christmas” written by Rob Moore.
Synopsis: An escaped maniac returns to his childhood home on Christmas Eve, which is now a sorority house, and begins to murder the sorority sisters one by one.
Source: Digital – Pages: 113 – Size: 447 kb – IMDb
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December 3, 1938 Continuity Script.
Synopsis: The life of Ebenezer Scrooge, a cold-hearted, miserly businessman, is revealed to him in flashbacks on Christmas Eve.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 83 – Size: 10.2 MB – IMDb
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December 9, 1982 Revised Shooting Script by Jean Shepherd, Bob Clark, and Leigh Brown.
Based on original material by Jean Shepherd.
Synopsis: Ralphie has to convince his parents, teachers, and Santa that a Red Ryder BB gun really is the perfect gift for Christmas.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 122 – Size: 4.7 MB – IMDb
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October 2, 1987 Second Revised Draft by Jeb Stuart.
Based on the novel “Nothing Lasts Forever” by Roderick Thorp.
Synopsis: New York cop John McClane gives terrorists a dose of their own medicine as they hold hostages in an LA office building.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 124 – Size: 3.9 MB – IMDb
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November 30, 1987 Final Draft by Jeb Stuart.
Revisions by Steven E. de Souza. Based on the novel “Nothing Lasts Forever” by Roderick Thorp.
Synopsis: New York cop John McClane gives terrorists a dose of their own medicine as they hold hostages in an LA office building.
Source: Digital – Pages: 129 – Size: 233 kb – IMDb
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Undated, unspecified draft by David Berenbaum.
Synopsis: After inadvertently wreaking havoc on the elf community due to his ungainly size, a man raised as an elf at the North Pole is sent to the U.S. in search of his true identity.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 121 – Size: 3.6 MB – IMDb
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July 29, 2005 First Draft by Scot Armstrong.
Synopsis: The further trials and tribulations of Buddy, the human who was raised by elves at the North Pole.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 120 – Size: 2.7 MB
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May 15, 2007 Revised Draft by Matt Allen & Caleb Wilson.
Revisions by Jon Lucas & Scott Moore. Current Revisions by Abby Kohn & Marc Silverstein.
Synopsis: A couple struggles to visit all four of their divorced parents on Christmas Day.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 116 – Size: 2.7 MB – IMDb
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June 23, 2005 First Draft by Dan Fogelman.
Story by Jessie Nelson and Dan Fogelman.
Synopsis: Fred Claus, Santa’s bitter older brother, is forced to move to the North Pole.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 116 – Size: 2.3 MB – IMDb
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Undated, unspecified draft by Chris Columbus.
Synopsis: A boy inadvertently breaks 3 important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town.
Notes: No cover page.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 96 – Size: 2.2 MB – IMDb
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April 27, 1982 Second Draft by Chris Columbus.
Synopsis: A boy inadvertently breaks 3 important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 115 – Size: 5.2 MB – IMDb
