Indicates draft versions (if known) and availabilith of PDF format. Indexes and links to scripts for over 8,500 films available from 300+ web sites.
"Screenplays are only made available to download by The Script Lab when they are done so by their copyright holders and available free of charge." (site) Include scripts for many films released from 2012-2015. Links to 150+ scripts made available by studios and production companies, mostly recent films. Includes multiple versions for some titles (e.g., more than ten versions of Alien 3). Search box searches Google, not limited to the site itself.Ī wide selection of scripts, many in HTML format, some requiring Adobe Acrobat to display. Includes more than 1300 film scripts in varying versions (second draft, final shooting draft, etc.). This site does carry a lot of advertising. Most scripts are for films released in the past 25 years. From there you can save the script as an HTML file, of Select All and copy the text into Word, etc.
Click on the "Read Script" link below the movie description.
NOTE: You don't need to download the Bamboo pdf software to read or copy a script.
Movie scripts online includes drafts, transcriptions of dialog, etc. The movie scripts are presented in proper script format (for the most part) and where possible, multiple drafts are presented." (site) "a collection of movie scripts and screenplays to serve as a resource for writers and actors and those who simply enjoy reading movie scripts. Includes PDF format for scripts of BBC radio, television, and film productions. Offers full-text film scripts - largely draft versions - free to use for teaching and education purposes. Note that scripts for non-English language films are especially difficult to find online, though a few may appear among sites listed here:Ĭontains free, downloadable scripts for movies and television series, many of them Netflix productions. For more information on finding screenplays, see the UCLA Library's Film and Television Subject Guide. The list below links to some of the more reliable sites for freely accessible screenplays. Be aware that there can be many versions of a script: spec scripts, multiple drafts, revisions, shooting scripts, continuity scripts, and transcripts made directly from the finished film. Various internet sites, while not comprehensive (or, perhaps, strictly legal), provide film scripts in a variety of forms. Check WorldCat to see if it is held by another library. If a film script has been published commercially and it is not in the CU Library collection, we may be able to obtain a copy through interlibrary loan. The Library of Congress subject heading for screenplays is MOTION PICTURE PLAYS. Others may appear in edited anthologies, through these are rarer. Some screenplays - such as those by Noel Coward or Woody Allen - may be published together in single author collections.
If we have the published screenplay you should see a catalog record for it.
The most obvious way to locate these is to search by the title for the film either by Title or All Fields. Not all screenplays are commercially published and it may not be possible to locate the script for a particular film, but we do have some in the collection. You'll find both types in this collection, and this guide from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences should be helpful.Finding Film Scripts in the Library Catalog This is the draft the crew uses to make the movie. As a beginning screenwriter, odds are you're going to be writing a lot of spec scripts (short for "speculation," or, in other words, free) if the spec script is sold, and manages to make it to production, then you'll end up with a shooting script (which has been broken down by the script supervisor) and feature lots of details like CUT TO:, POV, and CAMERA ANGLES.
The best way to learn how to write a script is to read as many scripts as you can, in as many formats as you can. We've featured tons of screenplays here before, but this is a real embarrassment of riches, courtesy of Go Into The Story. Time was, it was difficult for anyone outside of Hollywood to lay their hands on legit screenplays then, with the birth of the internet, scripts were everywhere, but with the proliferation of screenplays came an equal divergence in quality: some were just plain inaccurate, while others were early drafts that were discarded long before cameras started rolling. Everyone loves them, and today, we're giving you 100s of them, all free, and all legal.