Regular visitors to TVWriter™ (um, you’re a regular visitor, aren’t you? Huh? Huh?) know that posts about where to read successful (and maybe unsuccessful) professionally written TV and film scripts are always highly popular here.
So – and not just to attract page views but mainly to continue our visitors’ writing progress – we’re here to tell you today about a site recommended by one of our minions.
It’s called The Daily Script, and as the folks there say on their opening page, Daily Script is “a collection of movie scripts and screenplays to serve as a resource for writers and actors and those who simply enjoy reading movie scripts. The movie scripts are presented in proper script format (for the most part) and where possible, multiple drafts are presented.”
The site features a new script every day (duh), and also has sections you can browse through to find many of the TV and film scripts you may be looking for. Here’s a partial list of what we saw in the TV section of the site the last time we visited:
24 second season premire by Joel Surnow & Michael Loceff 2001
August 12, 2002 5th revised draft 2160 kb pdf format imdbThe Alfred Hitchcock Hour: The Magic Shop by Joan Collier (based on The Magic Shop by H.G.Wells) 1963
November 4, 1963 teleplay 2487 kb pdf format imdbArrested Development by Mitchell Hurwitz 2003
March 31, 2003 draft 1046 kb pdf format imdbBold and the Beautiful: Epsidoe 9 by William J. Bell 0
February 26, 1987 final 1408 kb pdf format imdbBonanza: Escape to Ponderosa by unknown 1960
January 22, 1960 final draft 2046 kb pdf format imdbBrimstone – Pilot by Ethan Reiff & Cyrus Voris 1998
2/5/98 Revised Third Draft 1911 kb pdf format imdbCharlies Angels: Little Angels of the Night by Mickey Rose 1977
October 19, 1977 final draft 1700 kb pdf format imdbDark Shadows by Steve Feke and Dan Curtis 1991
February 13, 1990 revised first draft 3658 kb pdf format imdbDesperate Housewives Pilot by Marc Cherry 2004
August 12, 2003 writer’s final draft 1085 kb pdf format imdbDesperate Housewives: Pretty Little Picture by Oliver Goldstick 2004
undated, unspecified 1405 kb pdf format imdbDesperate Housewives: Who’s That Woman by Tom Spezialy & Marc Cherry 2004
undated, unspecified 1298 kb pdf format imdbE.R. “Motherhood” by Lydia Woodward 1995
May 5, 1995 Shooting Draft 402 kb pdf format imdb
And here are the screenplays the topped the film list:
10 Things I Hate About You by Karen McCullah Lutz, Kirsten Smith & William Shakespeare 1999
november 12, 1997 revision 211 kb html format imdb12 And Holding by Anthony S. Cipriano 2005
april 6, 2004 draft 132 kb pdf format imdb12 Monkeys by David Webb Peoples & Janet Peoples 1995
6/27/94 production draft 196 kb html format imdb13 Days by David Self 2000
undated, unspecified draft 212 kb html format imdb13 Ghosts by Neal Marshall Stevens (based on the screenplay by Robb White) revised by Richard D’Ovidio 2001
november 4, 2000 revised production draft 871 kb pdf format imdb15 Minutes by John Hertzfeld 2001
undated, unspecified draft 155 kb html format imdb16 Blocks by Richard Wenk 2006
january 2004, unspecified draft 1805 kb pdf format imdb25th Hour by David Benioff 2002
april 30, 2001 draft 556 kb pdf format imdb3 Kings by David O. Russell & John Ridley 1999
6/22/98 revised 208 kb html format imdb3 Kings by David O. Russell (story by John Ridley) 1999
february 17, 1999 revised final draft 27? kb pdf format imdb3 Kings (Spoils of War) by John Ridley 1999
7/26/95 writers first draft 206 kb html format imdb40 Year Old Virgin by Judd Apatow & Steve Carell 2005
undated, unspecified draft 2029 kb pdf format imdb8 Mile (aka Untitled Detroit Project) by Scott Silver 2002
april 27, 2001 draft 141? kb pdf format imdb8 Millimeter by Andrew Kevin Walker 1999
5/06/97 draft 253 kb html format imdb
Yeah, yeah, there are a lot of oldies up there. We consider them to be Classic Gold.
On your way now, scoot, scoot, to THE DAILY SCRIPT.
This is great! Thanks!