KING KONG
Screenplay by
FRAN WALSH & PETER JACKSON
From an idea conceived by
EDGAR WALLACE & MERIAN C. COOPER
1st Draft
1996
EXT. SKIES OVER FRANCE 1917 - DAY
CAMERA drifts towards a large puffy cloud floating 6000ft above the
French countryside ...
... a roar of engines - sounding like angry buzzing bees - and three ...
six ... NINE SOPWITH CAMEL FIGHTER PLANES emerge from the cloud, flying
in t
Open Water Script
Hey, Don. Its Daniel.
Listen. Dont put the boiler in until I get back.
The framing inspection isnt before a couple of weeks,
So we got plenty of time.
Ill check in with you guys in a couple of days, ok?
Take care. Bye.
First thing I will do is try to find another producer.
Theres gotta to be somebody else in town who could help us out.
Just for the pre-game.
Hold on just a secon
Nashville Script
Now, after years in the making,
Robert Altman brings to the big
screen the long-awaited Nashville,
with ... count em...
of your very favorite stars!
David Arkin, Barbara Baxley,
Ned Beatty in Nashville!
And the fabulous performances
of Karen Black, Ronee Blakely!
Timothy Brown in Nashville,
along with the spectacular
Keith Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin!
With Robert Doqui in Nashvi
My Man Godfrey Script
Hello, Duke.
Hello, Mike.
Any luck today?
I figured out a swell racket,
and everything was going great
until the cops came along.
Too bad it didnt work.
If them cops would stick
to their own racket,
wed get somewhere
in this country...
without a lot of this
relief and all that stuff.
Mike, I wouldnt worry.
Prosperitys just around the corner.
Yeah. Its been there a long time.
Note: Hows this for a change from the finished product?!? ... and NO mention of the powerful Opening Vistas! This is how the script begins ...
[FADE IN]
The screen is a microcosm of leaf, crystal drops of precipitation, a stone, emerald green moss. Its a landscape in miniature. We HEAR the forest. Some distant birds. Their sound seems to reverberate as if in a cavern. A piece of sunlight refracts
Gattaca
A Screen Play
by Andrew M. Niccol
FADE IN
A white title appears on a black screen.
"As night-fall does not come at once, neither
does oppression...It is in such twilight that
we all must be aware of change in the air
- however slight - lest we become victims of
the darkness."
Justice William O. Douglas
The title fades off, replaced by a second title.
"I not only think that we will tamper
THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY
Our story begins in 1965, on a hot afternoon in August.
FADE IN
EXT. IOWA LANDSCAPE - DAY
Rolling green hills, lush farmland, vast open space. Not a
house or sign of life in sight. On a long dusty road, a TRUCK
is driving across the screen. Clouds of dirt follow in its
tracks -- its motor, the only sound we hear.
INT. TRUCK - DAY
FRANCESCA JOHNSON is sitting in t
He roughly picks the dog up by the scruff of the neck, but as he turns it around we see that it is a
stuffed dog. Around its neck is a business card that reads, "You have been had by Ace Ventura -
Pet Detective." He breathes fire.
GRUFF MAN
Son of a bitch!
He smashes the dog to the ground.
EXT. ALLEY - CONTD
As the UPS Man/Ace rounds the corner, his shirt opens up at his pot belly and the Shiatsu
SOOZE? Yeah, so did you tell him that we couldnt afford twenty bucks a ticket and why didnt he put us on the comp list? No, no, theres always a comp list. Alright. Well, so then, just get your mothers car and maybe well all go do something. Yeah. I gotta get off. Okay. Bye.
CUT TO:
INT. PIZZA JOINT - DAY
BUFF is the one of the only people working. Pies are over cooking in the oven and Buff is try
Lifeboat Script
ARE YOU NUMBER TWO BOAT?
FASTER
WHERE
IT WAS NUMBER ONE LAST TIME
I SAW IT
HELLO
LADY, YOU CERTAINLY DONT
LOOK LIKE
SOMEBODY JUST
THEN I CERTAINLY FEEL
DID YOU
WHO?
JOE, THE STEWARD
HE HELP
I THOUGHT THIS BOAT
WAS ABENDON
NOT BY ME, IT LOOK PRETTY GOOD
TO ME
WHAT PART OF SHIP YOU
FROM DARLING?
ENGINE ROOM
I WAS OFF THE DUTY AT THE
WASH
CALL WITH MY WASHING MY
MOST THE CREW WERE TR