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    I just got done with the Isolate Thief. Very good story about a boy alone in a log cabin in the woods. What good script have you read lately?
    Last edited by Typewriter; 01-02-2010, 11:10 PM.
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    Like everybody else, during my writing breaks, I'm working my way through the
    Black List, but I really liked THE GIRL WITH THE RED RIDING HOOD.

    Obviously, it retold the story of Little Red Riding Hood, but it had love triangles and werewolves. Nice little period piece. For some reason I just liked it.

    PRISONERS and HANNA were cool to read. They didn't strike a cord of envy in me, but they were nicely done.

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      Read THE DAYS BEFORE and loved it. Best sci-fi I've read in a very long time.

      I'm currently reading TRIPOLI and it's excellent. Highly recommend it.

      I loved THE ISOLATED THIEF until about page 80, when the villain made a pretty stupid mistake that I just couldn't forgive. As a result, the rest of the script just didn't work for me.
      QUESTICLES -- It's about balls on a mission.

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        READ MY LIPS - Gilroy
        DUBAI - Cozad
        THE NEXT THREE DAYS - Haggis
        THE NAKED GUN: WHAT 4 - Spencer
        ARMORED - Simpson
        SOURCE CODE - Ripely
        THE DAYS BEFORE - St. John



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          Thanks for the recommends so far. Does anyone know of any scripts with Jim Carrey or Steve Carrell as the intended leads?
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            Wanted to bump this thread and recommend Farenheit 451. Wow what a good read. Frank Darabont absolutely kills screenplays.
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            • #7
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              Memoirs (aka Remember Me), if only because it has the best twist ending of any script I have ever read.

              INT. PINEAPPLE - DAY


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              • #8
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                "Edwin A Salt" - Kurt Wimmer draft. Great, fun read.

                "Passengers" by Jon Spaiths. The final scenes of the script sent me sobbing under my covers.

                Um, I mean go read "Dead Loss".

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                  Originally posted by Typewriter View Post
                  I just got done with the Isolate Thief. Very good story about a boy alone in a log cabin in the woods. What good script have you read lately?
                  Tell us a little more about this script?
                  It's the eye of the Tiger, it's the thrill of the fight

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                  • #10
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                    Originally posted by Jules View Post
                    Tell us a little more about this script?
                    Pulled directly off ScriptShadow (hope you don't mind Carson)

                    Genre: Period
                    Premise: In the dead of winter in the middle of the U.S. Civil War, a young man tries to hide the gold he stole from rogue soldiers who have taken over his remote house.
                    About: With 13 votes, The Isolate Thief was one of the top 2009 Black List scripts. Lefler has no previous credits or sales and has worked as an editor for the past five years.
                    Status of this draft: Unknown
                    Status of project: Development
                    Writer: Kevin Lefler
                    Details: 100 pages (undated)

                    http://scriptshadow.blogspot.com/200...ate-thief.html
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                      LAUREN PEMBERTON IS NO LONGER IN A RELATIONSHIP was great. One of the best written comedies I've read in a long time.

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                        THE VOICES by Michael R. Perry is amazing--hilarious, disturbing and tragic all in the same breath. Reminds me of AMERICAN PSYCHO, but more disturbing and more "inside the mind of a serial killer".

                        Also recently read AMBROSE FOUNTAIN, which was a solidly written horror story. We really come to care about the characters and the situations--very well developed. However, while the first half holds many spooky scenes, the second half and, especially the end, must have every horror cliche in the book. So--fantastic first half, questionable second half.

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                          Read it a few months ago, but

                          BIZARRO SUPERMAN by Robert Gordon

                          was a fvcking insanely fun read. Also love

                          LAW ABIDING CITIZEN by Kurt Wimmer and Frank Darabont

                          which brings together two of the best writers in the biz. The movie was really cool too!

                          SMASH TO:

                          BLACK

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                            Advanced Placement by Anthony Jawinski
                            Snatch and Grab (2009 Black List)
                            The Blind Rage Of Peacoat Miller (2009 Black List)

                            I really liked these ones.
                            Excedrin Migraine. Red Bull. Fade in.

                            Sinister Scrawlings

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                              Originally posted by snwrist View Post
                              THE VOICES by Michael R. Perry is amazing--hilarious, disturbing and tragic all in the same breath. Reminds me of AMERICAN PSYCHO, but more disturbing and more "inside the mind of a serial killer".

                              Also recently read AMBROSE FOUNTAIN, which was a solidly written horror story. We really come to care about the characters and the situations--very well developed. However, while the first half holds many spooky scenes, the second half and, especially the end, must have every horror cliche in the book. So--fantastic first half, questionable second half.
                              RE Voices: Agreed. Wonderful, fresh, very disturbing script. I'd love to see someone like Mark Romanek get his hands on this. The script reminded me of a darker, bat-sh!t crazy, off-shoot of The Beaver.
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