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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THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE
Genre: Drama
Author: David Wroblewski
Screenwriter: William Broyles, Jr.
Logline: A teenage mute, who is caught in a long-standing intense family conflict, flees into the Wisconsin woods with three of the extraordinary dogs that his family raises and trains.
THE WOMAN IN BLACK
Genre: Thriller
Author: Susan Hill
Screenwriter: Jane Goldman
Logline: A young lawyer is ordered to travel to a remote village to take care of a deceased client’s papers. The young man glimpses a mysterious woman dressed only in black during his stay, leading to the uncovering of a tragic secret.
THE LOST SYMBOL
Genre: Thriller
Author: Dan Brown
Screenwriter: Steven Knight
Logline: Robert Langdon is summoned to Washington, DC where he begins decoding the symbols of the Freemasons. The third in the Da Vinci Code series.
THE BIG SHORT: INSIDE THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE
Genre: Drama
Author: Michael Lewis
Screenwriter: Not Announced
Logline: Chronicles the recent free fall of the American economy.
Posted: February 9th, 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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THE FARM
From the book My Empire of Dirt: How One Man Turned His Big-City Backyard Into a Farm
Genre: Drama
Author: Manny Howard
Screenwriter: Donal Lardner Ward
Logline: A Brooklyn husband and father of two battles a career downturn and finds a renewed sense of purpose when transforming his backyard into a working, urban farm
DARK LIFE
Genre: Adventure
Author: Kat Falls
Screenwriter: Not Announced
Logline: Set in a near-future world in which rising ocean levels and natural catastrophes have led some people to homestead on the ocean floor, an underwater teenage boy and a surface girl join forces to uncover a government conspiracy.
FIRE
Genre: Spy Thriller
Author: Brian Michael Bendis
Screenwriter: Not Announced
Logline: A college student is recruited by the CIA, only to find that he has been trained for a program that creates expendable agents.
EAT, SLEEP, POOP: A COMMON SENSE GUIDE TO YOUR BABY’S FIRST YEAR
Genre: Comedy
Author: Dr. Scott W. Cohen
Screenwriter: Matt Allen and Caleb Wilson
Logline: A humorous look at raising your newborn.
Posted: February 2nd, 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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TOO COOL TO BE FORGOTTEN
Genre: Sci-Fi Comedy Drama
Author: Alex Robinson
Screenwriter: not announced
Logline: A 40-something father of two undergoes hypnosis to quite smoking only to be transported back to 1985 and his youth as a gangly, awkward teenager.
THE CHANCELLOR MANUSCRIPT
Genre: Political Thriller
Author: Robert Ludlum
Screenwriter: Peter O’Brien
Logline: Writer Peter Chancellor delivers a novel about Washington D.C. powerbrokers who are blackmailed into altering U.S. policies. When the real-life operatives get a hold of the manuscript they think Chancellor has uncovered their actual scheme and try to hunt the author down.
WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Author: Heidi Murkoff
Screenwriter: Heather Hach
Logline: Follows the relationships of seven couples as they experience the thrills, terrors, surprises, aches, and pains of preparing for parenthood
Posted: January 19th, 2010
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Adaptation Sales: The Host
Genre: Science Fiction-Romance
Author: Stephanie Meyer
Screenwriter: Andrew Niccol
Logline: Set in the near future on Earth, which has been assimilated by an alien species of well meaning parasites that call themselves “Souls”, one “soul” is fused with a dying human in an attempt to locate the last pocket of surviving humans on Earth.
Posted: September 24th, 2009
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Adaptation Sales: Strange, But True
Genre: Thriller
Author: John Searles
Screenwriter: John Searles, Eric Garcia
Logline: Five years after the death of her boyfriend, a young woman tells his parents she is pregnant with his baby.
Posted: September 21st, 2009
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Adaptation Sales: “Netherland”
Genre: Drama
Author: Joseph O’Neill
Screenwriter: Christopher Hampton
Logline: Set in New York City, a lonely Dutch expatriate becomes drawn to the sport of cricket and forms an unlikely bond to immigrant culture.
Posted: September 18th, 2009
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