Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week.
This week, we look at “fish out of water” stories, and how that simple conflict can generate layered characters, natural exposition, endless humor and nuanced themes.
Our collection includes:
- Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery by Mike Meyers
- Barbie by Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach
- Coming to America by Eddie Murphy & Arsenio Hall & David Sheffield & Barry W. Blaustein
- Hot Fuzz by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright
- Legally Blonde by Karen McCullah Lutz & Kirsten Smith
- Men in Black by Ed Solomon
- Pleasantville by Gary Ross
- Pretty Woman by J. F. Lawton
- The Devil Wears Prada by Aline Brosh McKenna
- The Heat by Katie Dippold
- Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt – “Kimmy Goes Outside!” by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock
- Wonder Woman by Allan Heinberg
- Zootopia by Jared Bush, Phil Johnston
Read these and other featured collections only on Weekend Read 2, available on all Mac and iOS devices. Download for free!