Page-To-Screen: Shutter Island
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Author: Dennis Lehane
Screenwriter: Laeta Kalagridis
Logline: In 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island.
Read an interview with screenwriter Laeta Kalagridis from Written By
Listen to a podcast interview with screenwriter Laeta Kalagridis from Creative Screenwriting
Download a free copy of the screenplay from Script Collector
Posted: March 4th, 2010
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Page-To-Screen: An Education
Author: Lynn Barber
Screenwriter: Nick Hornby
Logline: A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age.
Listen to an interview with screenwriter Nick Hornby at Creative Screenwriting
Download a free copy of the screenplay from Script Collector.
Posted: February 25th, 2010
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Page-To-Screen: Crazy Heart
Author: Thomas Cobb
Screenwriter: Scott Cooper
Logline: A faded country music musician is forced to reassess his dysfunctional life during a doomed romance that also inspires him.
Read an interview with director/screenwriter Scott Cooper from the WGA.
Download a free copy of the script from My PDF Scripts
Posted: February 18th, 2010
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Page-To-Screen: Sherlock Holmes
Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Screenwriter: Michael Robert Johnson and Anthony Peckham and Simon Kinberg
Logline: Detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England
Screenwriter Simon Kinberg answers questions about writing and adapting Sherlock Holmes at StoryLink.
Download a free copy of the screenplay from Script Collector.
Posted: February 11th, 2010
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Page-To-Screen: The Last Station
Author: Jay Parin
Screenwriter: Michael Hoffman
Logline: A historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy’s struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things.
Check out screenwriter Michael Hoffman’s Notes on Adaptation from Storylink
Purchase the Shooting Script published by Newmarket Press.
Posted: February 4th, 2010
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Page-To-Screen: A Single Man
Author: Christopher Isherwood
Screenwriter: Tom Ford and David Scearce
Logline: After the sudden death of his partner, an English professor tries to go about his typical day in Los Angeles.
Check out a podcast interview with co-writer Tom Ford at Creative Screenwriting
Download a free copy of the screenplay from My PDF Scripts
Posted: January 27th, 2010
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Page-To-Screen: Youth In Revolt
Author: C.D. Payne
Screenwriter: Gustin Nash
Logline: While his trailer trash parents teeter on the edge of divorce, Nick Twisp sets his sights on dream girl Sheeni Saunders, hoping that she’ll be the one to take away his virginity.
Download a free copy of the screenplay at My PDF Scripts
Posted: January 20th, 2010
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Page-To-Screen: The Lovely Bones
Author: Alice Sebold
Screenwriters: Peter Jackson & Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens
Logline: The story of a murdered young girl who watches over her family – and her killer – from heaven, weighing her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.
Download a free copy of the screenplay at Script Collector
Posted: January 14th, 2010
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Page To Screen: Invictus
Based on the book Playing The Enemy: Nelson Mandela and The Game That Made a Nation
Author: John Carlin
Screenwriter: Anthony Peckham
Logline: Nelson Mandela, in his first term as the South African President, initiates a unique venture to unite the apartheid-torn land; enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup.
Download the free screenplay at Script Collector
Posted: January 6th, 2010
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Page To Screen: “Up In The Air”
UP IN THE AIR
Author: Walter Kim
Screenwriters: Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner
Logline: Ryan Bingham is a corporate downsizing expert whose cherished life on the road is threatened just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles and just after he’s met the frequent-traveler woman of his dreams.
Screen Cave has an interview with screenwriter Jason Reitman on adapting Up In The Air and Reitman and Sheldon Turner talk about writing the screenplay to Script magazine.
Download a free copy of the script.
YOUR TURN: Have you had the opportunity to see the film while in limited release? What do you think of the adaptation?
Posted: December 14th, 2009
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