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Sign up for the Script to Screen Masterclass with Gary Young, the writer of Harry Brown & get a sneak peek of Gary Young's short film Henry

Gary Young MasterclassI just got a heads up on this great opportunity for screenwriters to not only hone their writing skills in a one day masterclass from Gary Young (the writer of the Michael Caine starrer Harry Brown) but to network with other aspiring writers as well as established industry talent this Saturday May 18.

From the writer of the sensational and award winning ‘Harry Brown’ starring Michael Caine, Ben Drew a.k.a Plan B and Emily Mortimer. Gary Young brings you a detailed masterclass which covers the ‘Harry Brown’screenplay as a working draft.

Boondock Saints 2: All Saints Day Screenplay

The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day is the much-anticipated sequel to the indie cult classic, The Boondock Saints.

The film is the continuation of writer/director Troy Duffy’s tough, stylized cutting edge saga of the MacManus brothers (Norman Reedus, Sean Patrick Flanery). The two have been in deep hiding with their father, Il Duce (Billy Connolly), in the quiet valleys of Ireland, far removed from their former vigilante lives. When word comes that a beloved priest has been killed by sinister forces from deep within the mob, the brothers return to Boston to mount a violent and bloody crusade to bring justice to those responsible. With a new partner in crime (Clifton Collins Jr., Star Trek) and a sexy FBI operative (Julie Benz, TV's “Dexter”) hot on their trail…the Saints are back!



Troy Duffy is something of a hero to me, hugely inspirational he wrote Boondock Saints while working as a doorman at a bar in LA. And it's only through his sheer balls out perseverance overcoming an insurmountable number of obstacles that Boondock Saints the film got made. Look he's no Saint himself but as far as tenacity goes the guy deserves a medal of sorts.

The inspiration for the screenplay happened one day when he came home from his job to find a dead woman being wheeled out of a drug dealer's apartment across the hall. Duffy then rented a computer and wrote the screenplay for The Boondock Saints based on his disgust at what he saw.
“I decided right there that out of sheer frustration and not being able to afford a psychologist, I was going to write this, think about it. People watching the news sometimes get so disgusted by what they see. Susan Smith drowning her kids... guys going into McDonald's, lighting up the whole place. You hear things that disgust you so much that even if you're Mother Teresa, there comes a breaking point. One day you're gonna watch the news and you're gonna say, 'Whoever did that despicable thing should pay with their life. You think — for maybe just a minute — that whoever did that should die, without any fuckin' jury. I was going to give everybody that sick fantasy. And tell it as truthfully as I could."
Duffy's rise and subsequent decline is painfully documented in the gonzo documentary "Overnight".

The Boondock Saints was a relatively small film that didn't follow the traditional crime formula that with some clever camera work, great editing and top notch cast made it a real pleasure to watch. I'm happy to see Duffy overcome the odds again and pull Boondock Saints 2 out the bag. Over in the states the original Boondock Saints is getting a special one night only 10th Anniversary screening on March 11th to accompany the release of The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day on DVD.

It looks like All Saints Day has had limited screenings and will be released straight to DVD/Blu Ray, currently it doesn't have a release date for the UK. I'm sure it will make it's way over here. In the meantime you can find the the screenplay further below for your reading pleasure.

For more info and updates:
Boondock Saints on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/boondocksaintsii

Boondock Saints on Twitter:
Boondock Saints 2 - @BoondockII
Sean Patrick Flanery - @seanflanery
norman reedus - @wwwbigbaldhead
Clifton Collins Jr. - @ccollinsjr


Boondock Saints 2 All Saints Day Screenplay

THE ROAD Screenplay Written by Joe Penhall (Based on THE ROAD by Cormac McCarthy)

HE ROAD Screenplay Written by Joe Penhall
HE ROAD Screenplay Written by Joe Penhall


A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones, and, when the snow falls it is grey.
The sky is dark. Their destination is the warmer south, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing: just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless cannibalistic bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a rusting shopping cart of scavenged food--and each other...
    Screenplay: THE ROAD, Written by Joe Penhall (Based on THE ROAD by Cormac McCarthy)               

Avatar Screenplay

When his brother is killed in battle, paraplegic Marine Jake Sully decides to take his place in a mission on the distant world of Pandora. There he learns of greedy corporate figurehead Parker Selfridge's intentions of driving off the native humanoid "Na'vi" in order to mine for the precious material scattered throughout their rich woodland. In exchange for the spinal surgery that will fix his legs, Jake gathers intel for the cooperating military unit spearheaded by gung-ho Colonel Quaritch, while simultaneously attempting to infiltrate the Na'vi people with the use of an "avatar" identity. While Jake begins to bond with the native tribe and quickly falls in love with the beautiful alien Neytiri, the restless Colonel moves forward with his ruthless extermination tactics, forcing the soldier to take a stand - and fight back in an epic battle for the fate of Pandora.

20th Century Fox have released James Cameron’s entire screenplay for AVATAR online for everyone to download and read for free. You can view the script in the Adobe pdf format right here or below.

Avatar by James Cameron

Inglourious Basterds Screenplay

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis.

Inglourious Basterds - Original Screenplay

Moon Screenplay

Moon is directed by first-time filmmaker Duncan Jones, a former ad exec turned filmmaker His previous efforts include a sci-fi short from 2000 called Whistle. The original Moon story was written by Jones, and the screenplay was written by Nathan Parker. Moon first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, where it was bought by Sony Pictures Classics.

Moon Screenplay

Raindance Director's Foundation Certificate - The Director And The Script

The script is the blueprint for a movie. The director's job is to read and interpret the screenplay. Discover how a good director translates the written word into the visual elements on the screen.


  • Analysing and reading the script
  • Discovering the true story
  • Identifying key moments
  • Finding additional visual elements
  • * Written assignment
Raindance Director's Foundation Certificate - The Director And The Script

Where
Diorama Arts Centre
Camden, London, England NW1

When
6:30pm, Thurs 13 September, 2007

More info at Raindance

The Princess Bride The Screenplay

The Princess Bride by William Goldman based on his novel

Simon Morgenstern is both a pseudonym and a narrative device invented by Goldman to add another layer to his novel The Princess Bride. He presents his novel as being an abridged version of a work by the fictional Morgenstern, an author from the equally fictional country of Florin. The name is almost certainly a reference to Johann Carl Simon Morgenstern who coined the term Bildungsroman describing the genre of story.

The details of Goldman's life given in the introduction and commentary for The Princess Bride are also largely fictional. For instance, he says that his wife is a psychiatrist and that he was inspired to abridge Morgenstern's The Princess Bride for his only child, a son. (The Princess Bride actually originated as a bedtime story for Goldman's two daughters.) He not only treats Morgenstern and the countries of Florin and Guilder as real, but even claims that his own father was Florinese and had immigrated to America.

At one point in The Princess Bride, Goldman's commentary indicates that he had wanted to add a passage elaborating a scene skipped over by Morgenstern. He explains that his editors would not allow him to take such liberties with the "original" text, and encourages readers to write to his publisher to request a copy of this scene. Both the original publisher and its successor have responded to such requests with letters describing their supposed legal problems with the Morgenstern estate.

In the 15th Anniversary Edition of The Princess Bride, Goldman claimed that he wanted to adapt the sequel written by Morgenstern, Buttercup's Baby, but he was unable to do so because Morgenstern's estate wanted Stephen King to do the abridgment instead. He also continued the fictional details of his own life, claiming that his psychiatrist wife had divorced him, and his son had grown to have a son of his own.

Goldman also wrote The Silent Gondoliers under the Morgenstern name.

The Princess Bride Screenplay


Director ... Rob Reiner
Cary Elwes ... Westley
Mandy Patinkin... Inigo Montoya
Chris Sarandon... Prince Humperdinck
Christopher Guest... Count Tyrone Rugen
Wallace Shawn... Vizzini
André the Giant... Fezzik (as Andre the Giant)
Fred Savage... The Grandson
Robin Wright Penn... Buttercup / The Princess Bride (as Robin Wright)
Peter Falk... The Grandfather / Narrator
Peter Cook... The Impressive Clergyman
Mel Smith... The Albino
Carol Kane... Valerie
Billy Crystal... Miracle Max

Resevoir Dogs Screenplay

Reservoir Dogs was, according to Tarantino, his version of Stanley Kubrick's The Killing. Tarantino himself said that he "[...] didn't go out of my way to do a rip-off of `The Killing,' but I did think of it as my `Killing,' my take on that kind of heist movie". Reservoir Dogs Screenplay
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