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Côte d'Azur (Sky-Blue Coast) [73-page feature
screenplay]
Log line: There's nothing quite so romantic as
spending one's youth in a foreign land.
Synopsis:
Eric is a 20-something American guy who's having the time of his life on the French
Riviera. Or maybe Eric is the 60-something who's looking back on his earlier years with
nostalgic regret and trying to alter the course of his life. This story was inspired by
Lawrence Durrell, and his experiments with metafictional techniques in The Avignon Quintet
("fictional" characters interacting with "real" characters) and The Alexandria Quartet
(the Rashomon of literature, with multiple points of view). It might be described as a
hedonistic tale in the shape of a Möbius strip, trapped in an Escher wood engraving:
magical realism with just a dash of irrealism, drenched in Mediterranean
sunshine.
Genre:
Coming-of-age buddy movie, with adventure, romance, fantasy,
humor and a touch of magic.
[more info + free eBook]
[best seller]
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[complete screenplay, 180k PDF file]
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Vlad the Impaler: Son of Dracul [91-page feature
screenplay]
Log line: Many will assume this is just another
retelling of the "Dracula" vampire/horror myth... but Vlad's story is true.
Synopsis:
The Holocaust killed approximately 10% of Germany's people. Some estimates
claim that Vlad exterminated more than 20% of his fellow Wallachians. [WARNING:
GRAPHIC TRANSGRESSIVE VIOLENCE / based on 15th-century history.]
Genre:
Historical drama. [An unflinchingly gruesome genre-bender, with perverse humor.]
[more info + free eBook]
[best seller]
[Facebook ~1,466 Likes] [Map]
[complete screenplay, 209k PDF file]
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Merlinsky [98-page feature screenplay: American Zoetrope
quarterfinalist, Writers Network quarterfinalist]
Log line:
Imagine the Lord of the Rings meets Harry Potter and they go back to the
future. Based on the Arthurian legend and the ancient folklore myth of the
sorcerer's apprentice.
Synopsis: The endless hordes of Hollywood tourists
in the late 1940's are easy marks for a con-man magician like Harry Merlinsky.
He knows how to sucker the rubes and flash the ol' hamster-outta-the-fedora
every now and then, to baffle 'em and dazzle 'em. But he didn't expect a
naive fan like Jake, who wants to learn Harry's Old Knowledge - "real"
magic. Harry's archenemy obliterates Jake's girlfriend, forcing Jake
to become a wizard, just to stay alive. Will Jake use his
newfound powers for vengeance? The timeless myth of the
Sorcerer's Apprentice unfolds against the backdrop of the Magic Castle and the Hollywoodland
sign.
Lineage: 12th-century folklore myths begat The
Sorcerer's Apprentice by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, which begat a tone
poem by composer Paul Dukás, which begat Disney's
Fantasia, which inspired Merlinsky, a magical action-adventure. [Completed
before the Nicolas Cage film was released.]
Genre:
Action-adventure, w/magic.
[this
book by AJB & ACB contains background about the screenplay]
[prose
adaptation of the opening sequence, published by SFWP Literary Journal]
[Open Salon article] [Facebook]
[3-page sample, HTML]
[complete screenplay, 129k PDF file]
[free eBook]
[best seller]
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\\\ BackslasherBlog.com \\\ [feature screenplay]
Log line:
Surfing for romance in cyberspace can be murder.
Synopsis: The
teenaged winners of an online tattoo contest fall in lust, while a
psychotic killer patiently waits to cull them from the herd.
Genre:
Teen suspense-comedy.
[this book by ACB contains a sample from the screenplay]
[10-page sample, HTML] [Facebook]
[10-page sample, 16k PDF file]
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Francis Ford Coppola calls it "quality stuff."
It
was featured in an interview with one coauthor on the CNBC network.
It
was also showcased in a chat with the other coauthor on Central Europe's premier
TV newsmagazine.
The Creative Screenwriting magazine review says it has
"tremendous possibilities as a romantic thriller."
It reached the quarterfinals
in one international contest, and was among five finalists in another.
What is
it?
The Fall In Budapest [99-page feature screenplay:
SCRNWRiT finalist, Writers Network quarterfinalist]
Log line:
An American undercover agent, convinced that a former KGB operative
plans to wreak terrorist havoc on a cataclysmic scale, risks everything to stop
the Russian in this action-packed romantic thriller.
Synopsis: Vitaly,
a former KGB operative, takes a nasty tumble in Budapest's late autumn, and he's
aided in his struggle back to health by the Hungarian nurse Erzsébet. The
course of their blossoming romance is altered by ugly memories of the past,
involving the historical tension between their two countries, as well as their own
personal experiences. Jared, an American undercover agent, is convinced that
Vitaly's sinister "business" partners are planning a nerve-gas terrorist attack,
and he's willing to risk everything, including his relationship with his lover,
to stop the Russian.
Genre:
Romantic thriller.
[this
book by AJB & ACB was written as a companion to the screenplay]
[Wired magazine
article]
[Internet
Kalauz magazine interview + English translation]
[more information] [Facebook]
[flash-fiction adaptation of one scene, published in Paris +
Budapest Tales anthology (ISBN 8392316851)]
[complete screenplay, 134k PDF file]
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Eleven Thousand Virgins [102-page
feature screenplay: Writers Network semifinalist]
Log line: "Field of Dreams"
with medieval chant music in place of baseball.
Synopsis: Alex Barnett
has a comfortable life in Los Angeles and San Francisco; it's probably
too comfortable, although he can't quite admit to himself that an extended separation
from his wife Nicole eats at his soul. An unusual set of seemingly unrelated
circumstances impels him to seek out a centuries-abandoned monastery in southwest
Germany, where he confronts the animate image of Hildegard von Bingen, the
legendary twelfth-century mystic, prophet, and composer of ravishing liturgical
chants. Although his friend Lars believes it's a bona-fide vision, much like the
visions that fueled Hildegard's own creativity, Alex cynically distrusts his deepest
instincts and drives himself to search for a more acceptable answer. His quest
guides him on the path toward self-awareness, through experiences both sacred and
profane. One man's inner and outer pilgrimages take him to the depths of uncertainty,
and, almost inexorably, to the peak of actualization.
Background: Hildegard
of Bingen (1098-1179 AD) composed many chants in honor of Saint Ursula (?-383 AD).
According to legend, Ursula was a Romano-British princess who, at the
request of her father, King Donaut of Dumnonia (SW England), set sail across the English
Channel with 11,000 virginal handmaidens to join her future husband, the pagan
Governor Conan Meriadoc of Armorica (Brittany). Before the princess could arrive, all
the virgins were beheaded in a massacre, and Ursula was shot dead. Modern
research suggests the phrase "XI. M. V." was misinterpreted as
"eleven thousand (in Roman numerals) virgins" rather than "eleven martyred
virgins."
Genre: Spiritual drama.
[free eBook]
[best seller] [Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) - Discography (80+ CDs)]
[Eleven
Thousand Virgins CD, by Anonymous 4]
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[complete screenplay,
141k PDF file] [124K TXT file]
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Azért is..! (Despite everything..!) [11-page animation script:
Million Writers Award semifinalist, American Gem eighth finalist]
Log
line: Animation inspired by a tilted cross, a unique deck of cards, and a pocket-sized
bottle of liquor.
Synopsis: Even though this European nation has existed
for more than a thousand years, over 70% of the country "vanished" after World War I.
Today, the exiles' great-great-great-grandkids still think in Magyar.
Genre:
Animation, adventure-drama short.
[complete
script, HTML]
[complete script, 24k PDF file] [Facebook]
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Doc Holliday's Gal [10-page
Western script]
Log line: The gunfight at the OK Corral has been done to death...
but maybe you've never seen it from a woman's point of view.
Synopsis: Doc
Holliday spends quality time in Tombstone with his Hungarian paramour, Mary Katherine
Horony (a/k/a Katie Elder or Big Nose Kate), during the final hours before the gunfight
that launched a passel o' movies (Wyatt Earp, etc.). Based on a true story.
Genre:
10-minute Western film.
[complete script, 45K
PDF file]
[sample in the "facebookworm" book,
ISBN 1448620805]
[Facebook: Kate + Play]
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Ooga Booga Yip Yip [10-page
satirical script]
Log line: Cavemen are from Mars, cavewomen are from
Venus, monoliths are from Jupiter and lockers are from Earth. Mostly,
anyway.
Synopsis: Cave couple shacks up together and discovers the one
true key to relationship harmony.
Genre: Comedy short.
[complete
script, 50k PDF file]
[Open Salon
article] [Facebook]
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sUBTexT [45-page
sitcom pilot script]
Log line: Several semi-retired sitcom writers
shake up their local fast-food emporium.
Synopsis: Have you noticed
how the old farts in any given neighborhood tend to gather around a table at their
local McDonald's in the early morning, drinking coffee and shooting the sh*t?
Have you ever wondered what they discuss? Could it really be sex and Visigoths?
Genre:
Sitcom spec.
[complete script, 81k PDF file] [Facebook]
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Guns Don't Shoot People, "Dick" Shoots People [1-page
satirical script]
Log line: "Skeeter" Obama and "Dick" Cheney go duck
hunting.
Synopsis: The gun-control debate takes a surreal turn.
Genre:
Satirical short.
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Twi Hard On [3-page
satirical script]
Log line: 17-year-old girl falls in love with
a vampire who appears to be her age, but who is actually 100 -
and whenever
they try to get it on, he morphs into the filthy old letch that he really is.
Synopsis:
WARNING - this is a raunchy and irreverent "Twilight"
parody,
so watch out for the strong language and adult situations.
Genre:
Satirical short.
[complete script, 27k PDF file]
[Facebook]
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iSex [3-page
satirical script]
Log line: Blind dating in the iPhone
age.
Synopsis: Who says a cell phone can't double as a sex toy?
Genre:
Comedy short.
[complete script, 33k PDF file] [Hamburg Film Awards + option]
[Stage 32] [SimplyScripts] [Script
Revolution] [Talentville]
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Britney and the
Judgie-Poo [4-page satirical script]
Log line: "Life really zooms by,
here in the fast lane."
Synopsis: Britney Spears argues her case for
being allowed to have sleepovers with K-Fed's kids.
Genre: Comedy short.
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Steven Spielberg Kicks
Some Serious Butt [4-page satirical script]
Log line: "I'm SPIELBERG,
dammit!"
Synopsis: Steven Spielberg and his co-producer, Mark Burnett,
disagree about how to fix the low ratings of their Fox reality show, "On The Lot." Will
it be lightsaber numchucks or eating a bug?
Genre: Comedy short.
[complete script, HTML]
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Feelix [7-page
animation script]
Log line: You'll never look at Oscar® the same way
again!
Synopsis: WARNING - this is a South
Park parody, so watch out for the strong language and adult situations.
Genre:
Animation, comedy short.
[complete script, HTML]
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Formatters & Templates: Check out our free, award-winning Screenwright(R)
screenplay formatting template (17K) for OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice
Writer (new: A4, sitcom + A4,
theater/stage play + A4, radio + A4, audio-visual + A4), and our template for
MSWord 2002 (57K).
PS: Here are some other MSWord script formatting templates: 97 +
2000 and 2010. And here are some WordPerfect macro formatters. Finally,
here's the Wikibooks entry on
Screenplay Format, which includes links to John
August's CSS template for screenplay markup on his website (now Scrippets) and
screenplay
templates for Google docs. Samuel French play
formatting guide.
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