Mar 10 2009 Spielberg, Lucas, Kasdan Show Their Work on 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'
Ready to take your Indiana Jones fandom to the next level? Mystery Man on Film has posted a 125-page transcript of George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan brainstorming what would become the character of Indiana Jones (née Smith) and the film Raiders of the Lost Ark. It's like an origin story of the origin story, and overall a pretty good read. Who would believe the idea of adding a fourth, lackluster chapter thirty years later wasn't part of the original schema?
(via the Boing Boing.)
Nov 11 2008 'Dark Knight' Script Now Downloadable
As pointed out by /Film, Warner Bros. has made Jonathan and Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight screenplay available as a free download. You can read The Dark Knight! Where was this a week-and-a-half ago, when I had to remember all the Joker's lines to recite verbatim at Halloween parties?
Jul 10 2008 QT's 'Inglorious Bastards' Script is Like All of His Movies Plus Other Movies
Latino Review and Vulture have read Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards script and they're saying, respectively, that it's like "if you took the bad guy swagger of RESERVOIR DOGS, the uber coolness and structure of PULP FICTION, throw in the revenge angle of KILL BILL, set it in World War II" and "like Kill Bill meets The Dirty Dozen meets Cinema Paradiso." You can read the specifics and plot details at either site, but both use the term "awesome" in describing it, which is usually a positive.
Also of note: "bastards" is spelled "basterds" throughout the script, though it's not entirely clear if that's intentional or not because there are apparently many other spelling and grammatical errors throughout (I'm hoping it was somehow an accident; otherwise it's going to really eff up my blog tags). So while it's reassuring to hear that Tarantino looks to have another hit, it's also oddly depressing to realize the man who brought us Pulp Fiction is still having issues with plural vs. possessive and "they're" and "there." Maybe he was using YouTube comments as a reference.
Jan 9 2008 Free Screenplays to 'No Country', 'Juno', and More
Want to see how much The Darjeeling Limited deviated from the original screenplay? Feel the need to accurately recreate scenes from Juno on YouTube? Want to know how the Coen Brothers spell your favorite new informal address, "friendo"? (That's how.) Right now, you can download the screenplays to these and other Best Screenplay hopefuls on the Miramax and Fox Searchlight websites, just begging for someone to remake The Savages with dubbed-over cats.
