Ugh, yesterday was not a fun day at all. As a lot of you already know, the mediafire library that PJ had posted has been taken down. The reason it’s been taken down is because Fox has sued PJ for 15 million dollars. It’s just a sad day, not because scripts will no longer be [...]

Genre: ComedyPremise: In 1985, a 13 year old socially challenged boy obsesses over finding pictures of nude women while his preacher father tries to become a bishop. About: This is Phil Johnston’s first sold script, I believe, which landed him on the 2006 Black List. Johnston would later write “Cedar Rapids,” which would make last [...]

Genre: Thriller/MysteryPremise: (logline sent to me) After surviving a violent car accident, a woman is attacked in her home by a masked assailant and finds herself living out a time loop that has her experiencing the attack from several points of view.About: On the final Friday of every month, I review a script from the [...]

Been flipping through Amazon, trying to find some great deals and indeed there are a bunch. Personally, I’m hopping on Community and Princess Bride.  I’ve been meaning to get The Wrestler forever.  Toy Story 3 is a no-brainer.  Finally saw Train Your Dragon and liked it, though not enough to purchase it. Avatar Collector’s Edition [...]

Genre: WarPremise: A private bent on saving his own ass in the forgotten Battle of Hurtgen Forest in World War 2, finds himself repeatedly promoted as those around him continue to die. About: When Trumpets Fade was actually already made into a film back in 1998 (I believe it only played on HBO). But it [...]

Slash Film has alerted me to some sweet Pre Black Friday deals.  The Criterion Collection version of the greatest movie about high school ever told, Dazed and Confused for under 10 bucks.  I’m buying this one right now.  Time Bandits (who doesn’t love Time Bandits!??) on Blu-Ray for 6 bucks.   Fight Club on Blu-Ray [...]

Genre: Action-Adventure/Romance/ComedyPremise: When the infamous womanizer Don Juan starts to fall for a woman for the first time in his life, he must decide if that love is worth giving up his woman-chasing ways. About: Don Juan won the Scriptapalooza contest back in 2004. Not the actual Don Juan, but the writer who wrote Don [...]

 Hey, how bout that?  It’s Turkey Week!  Again, for those outside the U.S., we have a holiday this Thursday where everybody thanks themselves.  Or each other.  Or someone.  For reasons unknown to I, we need an entire day to do this thanking, so even though my own personal thanking will last a total of 25 [...]

Genre: DramedyPremise: A lost letter written to him by his idol, John Lennon, inspires an aging musician to change his life.About: Dan Fogelman’s using the buzz from his recent writing triumphs to jump into the directing arena with his newest spec, Imagine. The script sold for 2 million dollars and Fogelman will receive another 1 [...]

Genre: ActionPremise: A terrorist has planted a series of bombs inside several malls in Los Angeles. Although they capture the man before the bombs go off, a bout of amnesia prevents him from remembering where he put the bombs, or if he’s the terrorist at all. About: Mondry and Bagarozzi met as teen-age video store [...]

Genre: Mystery/DramaPremise: When a young girl goes missing after a teenage boy babysits her, the boy’s family must endure a town who’s convinced that the boy killed her. About: Nathan Parker is best known as the writer of the critically acclaimed sci-fi feature from Duncan Jones, Moon. Moon was Parker’s first produced credit but not [...]

Genre: Drama/PeriodPremise: A rag-tag group of prisoners from a 1940 Siberian Prison Camp escape, only to find that escaping was the easy part. They now must traverse hundreds of miles through enemy territory to find freedom.About: Due to its weighty subject matter, World War 2 setting, “based on a true story” credentials, and prestigious director [...]

 It’s Monday so it’s time for that boring weekend to end and your script reviews to begin.  This week should be fun.  I review a recent big spec sale.  And I mean REALLY big.  We have two Blood List scripts, one of which Roger reviews today.  We also have an old spec sale in the [...]

Genre: Crime/Drama/ThrillerPremise: (from IMDB) When a debt puts a young man’s life in danger, he turns to putting a hit out on his evil mother in order to collect the insurance.About: William Friedkin, the famed director of The Exorcist, has been sitting on a Scriptshadow favorite, the dual-female captive script, Sunflower, for a long time. [...]

Genre: ComedyPremise: When he suspects that his long-time astronaut girlfriend might be cheating on him up on the International Space Station, Doug, a janitor for NASA, decides to head into space to stop her. About: Space Invader has been kicking around development for a couple of years now. At one point it was gearing up [...]

Genre: DramedyPremise: A young man moves to Los Angeles and spends the next 30 years trying to break into acting.About: Edward Ford is considered by many to be one of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood. Lem Dobbs, the writer, wrote the script based on a real person. It is loved so much that even [...]

Genre: Indie/Drama/Love StoryPremise: After a young woman in a small town finds out she’s going to die, she meets a man who will go to the ends of the earth to preserve her memory. About: This was one of the ten finalists in the 2010 Nicholl Fellowship screenwriting contest. The Nicholl is the biggest screenwriting [...]

Man, I don’t think I’ve read a single one of these.  If you have any of them, please send them my way!  Oh yeah, The Brit List is a list of the best unproduced screenplays from British writers. (edit: Okay, got’em.  Now, if you’ve read any of these and have an opinion, please drop a [...]