by Charlie Kaufman Kaufman is a hot screenwriter. The source material is by hot adaptee Philip K. Dick, master of the sci-fi mindbender. What’s not to love? Well, when Richard Linklater took on the movie, he wrote his own screenplay instead. Download screenplay
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Roger Rabbit Two: The Toon Platoon
by Nat Mauldin As Who Framed Roger Rabbit was a parody of film noir, this movie would have taken on the war genre, with Roger involved in WWII. This was one of the first “Almost a Movie” scripts I collected in hard copy form, and I’m happy to have found a PDF of it online….
Predators
by Robert Rodriguez While waiting for the greenlight on Desperado, Rodriguez was commissioned to write the third Predator movie. Since the Aliens and Predator franchises merged, there seemed to be little chance this one would be made. But in April 2009, Variety reported that the project was back on the table. Read a script review…
Neuromancer
by William Gibson Did you ever see Johnny Mnemonic? Ignore the overall quality of the movie for a moment… Did you at least like the idea of jacking your brain into the internet? Gibson’s novel Neuromancer conveyed that in a fun and exciting way. The book was optioned, and Chuck Russell turned in a draft….
The Killer (Remake)
by Walter Hill The Killer was a break-out film for director John Woo and actor Chow Yun-fat. After the Hong Kong movie made the film festival rounds, Tri-Star became interested in doing an English language remake, with Richard Gere as the hitman and Denzel Washington as the cop. But because the relationship between the two…
Kaleidoscope/Frenzy
by Benn Levy Alfred Hitchcock was intrigued by the style of French and Italian “new wave” directors of the late 60s. He devised a story of a sexual predator, to be shot in a dressed-down documentary style. Some test footage (which can be seen in Dial H for Hitchcock) was shot, but the studio balked….
Freddy Vs. Jason Vs. Ash
Treatment by Unknown Bruce Campbell himself thought this movie probably wouldn’t work. How do you do each franchise justice? Personally, I think the Friday the 13th and Elm Street series interlock nicely, but tying in the Evil Dead continuity seems wrong. After this projected sequel to Freddy Vs. Jason was dropped, Bloody-Disgusting posted the treatment,…
Escape from L.A.
Treatment by Peter Briggs Peter Briggs, without invitation, wrote a spec treatment for an Escape from New York sequel. His treatment had nothing to do with the actual movie. Read the synopsis, originally posted at Looker Online.
Cleveland Smith, Bounty Hunter
by Scott Spiegel and Josh Becker Bruce Campbell was to have starred in this parody of Indiana Jones. Sam Raimi directed a 10 minute short to raise funding, but the project didn’t get off the ground. Read the script at BeckerFilms.com. Watch the Cleveland Smith short, available on Youtube:
Alfred Hitchcock’s The Short Night
by David Freeman In the last few years of his life, Hitchcock was developing a spy story with screenwriter David Freeman. The script has been published, along with behind the scenes details, in The Last Days of Alfred Hitchcock.