There was a brief exchange yesterday in the comments section where Brian took a shot at one of my all-time favorite scripts, Meat. Not long after, Branko came to the script’s defense and said that script was the ultimate “vibe” read. And I agree. That script was not the poster child for GSU but it did an amazing job at BIU (burrowing into you).
But what stuck out to me about that was that I didn’t know Branko liked the script so much. Which made me realize, I don’t know many of the scripts that you guys like. So, I wanted to dedicate a post where you guys get to share the scripts that you’ve loved over the years.
And I admit I have a secondary purpose for this post. I’m hoping that some long since forgotten script gets thrust back into the spotlight and maybe we bring some deserving screenplay back to life. Re-examine it. Ask questions such as, “Could this be made today?” You never know. There are definitely managers and agents and producers reading this site and if you bring a great script to their attention that they’re not aware of, anything could happen.
Now, you are allowed to hype up any script that isn’t your own. But I would advise against hyping a friend’s decent screenplay. Let’s have a genuine discussion here about great script reading experiences. These can be amateur scripts. They can be professional scripts.
One script that I still remember to this day that I can’t, for the life of me, understand why it was never made was Brian K. Vaughn’s Roundtable, about four celebrity knights who are asked to protect England from a modern day evil. That’s a ‘game over’ moneymaker.
I did have an A-list director once e-mail me asking me about the rights to that script, which was pretty funny (how the hell would I know??). But he really wanted to make it. And he looked into it but he came back and told me that the “chain of rights” or something was exceptionally complicated. So, I guess we’ll never see it.
Osculum Infame (real-time witch gets hanged and must figure out how to escape) îs a script read I’ll never forget. The Disciple Program (man must figure out who killed his wife), obviously. There were others (Source Code) but they’ve been made since.
So, I ask you, what are some of your favorite scripts you’ve read over the years here that still stay with you today? Let me know and hype them up in the comments section! Leave a logline if possible (for those who haven’t heard of the script before). It’s a script celebration post!
