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Featured Friday: Sci-Fi Futurism

October 11, 2024 News

Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week.

This week, we look at the many ways writers have imagined our future, and the astonishing new technology, fashion, problems and ethical dilemmas that might come to pass.

Our collection includes:

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick & Arthur C. Clark
  • Ad Astra by James Gray & Ethan Gross
  • Black Mirror – “San Junipero” by Charlie Brooker
  • Black Panther by Ryan Coogler & Joe Robert Cole
  • Blade Runner by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples
  • Blade Runner 2049 by Hampton Fancher and Michael Green
  • Dune by Jon Spaihts and Dennis Villenuve and Eric Roth
  • Futurama – “Space Pilot 3000” by David X. Cohen & Matt Groening
  • Gattaca by Andrew Niccol
  • Her by Spike Jonze
  • Interstellar by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan
  • Minority Report by Scott Frank
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation – “The Best of Both Worlds, Parts I & II” by Michael Piller
  • The Fifth Element by Luc Besson & Robert Mark Kamen
  • The Martian by Drew Goddard
  • Total Recall by Ronald Shusett & Dan O’Bannon
  • WALL-E by Andrew Stanton and Jim Reardon

Read these and other featured collections only on Weekend Read 2, available on all Mac and iOS devices. Download for free!

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