From movies that never got made to Charlie Kaufman's first drafts - script collectors want it all. But is it the write thing, asks Stuart McGurk  


http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,2243211,00.html

I wasn't aware that there were other script hosting websites. I'll bet they have nothing on simplyscripts.

~Zack~

Hey Bert, yank this shameless plug off the board, willya?

In all the time I've been here, I don't think I've ever downloaded a produced script.  It just never occurred to me to do this.


Phil

Don Boose?

That might be one of the more cooler names.

I have to admit when I saw the thread title "SimplyScripts in the N..." I was expecting something a little more risque.

But awesome!  Go Don Boose!

Congrats Don! 120,000 hits a day... dayyyum!

Quoted from Heretic I have to admit when I saw the thread title "SimplyScripts in the N..." I was expecting something a little more risque.

I was expecting something more risque, too.  In hindsight, I'm so glad he left out the part of the interview about when I told about when I snorted three lines of blow off Brooke Shielde's back (turned out to be chaulk dust and his name was Brandon Shelt) and then ran down Rodeo drive naked with the hand-written sign reading, "Visit SimplyScripts.com and buy some useless crap you don't need."

good times...

Don

Quoted from Don and then ran down Rodeo drive naked with the hand-written sign reading, "Visit SimplyScripts.com and buy some useless crap you don't need."

Oh, that was you! You've been workin' out.

Quoted from Heretic I have to admit when I saw the thread title "SimplyScripts in the N..." I was expecting something a little more risque.

I was expecting it to start with Police were called in....



Phil

Interesting article. This was posted last year January yet the actual film for "Synecdoche" came out this year February... Wow!

Also, I think someone needs to explain to Charlie Kaufman that the greatest and surest way to "immortality" is service to his fellow human beings. Everyone will remember a guy like Mandella, Albert Einstein, JESUS(he taught faith and God and he has his own religions thousands of years after) etc because they chose selflessness in the biggest most passionate way they each could.
That should end our treatment to his psychological frustrations in the scripts he constantly writes. Plus, he needs to get away from the land of vapidity every now and then.

Who here  knows the guy?

I have to side with Charlie Kaufman a little here. It’s bad enough to have to submit unfinished work to the people who hired you. But at least that’s understandable because they hired you and they have a right to review your work. But to have people take your unfinished draft and spread it on the internet is understandably frustrating.

I don’t have any problem with writers reading and studying scripts prior to them being produced. It’s an excellent way to study writing that’s currently salable. But those are scripts that are effectively completed.

A published review of an incomplete draft is pretty fucked up. I can certainly understand Charlie Kaufman’s frustration with that.

On the other hand, there’s really only one place these scripts can come from - someone on the inside.


Breanne

I LOVE Charlie Kaufman!  Who's this Jesus guy you're going on about?

Quoted from Breanne Mattson I have to side with Charlie Kaufman a little here. It’s bad enough to have to submit unfinished work to the people who hired you. But at least that’s understandable because they hired you and they have a right to review your work. But to have people take your unfinished draft and spread it on the internet is understandably frustrating. I don’t have any problem with writers reading and studying scripts prior to them being produced. It’s an excellent way to study writing that’s currently salable. But those are scripts that are effectively completed. A published review of an incomplete draft is pretty fucked up. I can certainly understand Charlie Kaufman’s frustration with that. On the other hand, there’s really only one place these scripts can come from - someone on the inside. Breanne

Oh I understand that particular frustration. Anyone would be peeved.
I'm talking about the actual script itself.
In fact I'm speaking of all the scripts he writes. They're all the same.
"Being John Malkovitch", "Adaptation", "Synecdoche"...
A person grappling with the significance of his existence and purpose. Being surrounded by vapidity and decadence does that to a psyche every now and then, I guess.

The true problem of scripts getting where they shouldn't lies back with the writer and the circle of people around them, otherwise, they would be no where near the general public.  As far as Charlie Kaufman being upset about his rough work being in the hands of a fan, who can blame the fan?  They just love his work, but it should never have come near them to begin with.  Perhaps a hacker is actually ravaging his computer?  If so, if I were him, I'd work on a machine unconnected from the web, and distribute my work on disc or in printed form only.  Then, if it leaked early, only folks who received that work could be traced down.

Here's another one:





Phil