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Featured Friday: 90’s Maximalism

January 31, 2025 Weekend Read

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

This week, we look at those over-the-top explosive epics of the 90’s that pushed the limits of the form (and good taste), wore their hearts on their sleeves, and made movies bigger in every way.

Our collection includes:

  • Armageddon by Robert Roy Pool
  • Con Air by Scott Rosenberg
  • Face/Off by Mike Werb & Michael Colleary
  • The Fifth Element by Luc Besson & Robert Mark Kamen
  • The Rock by David Weisberg & Douglas Cook and Mark Rosner
  • Titanic by James Cameron
  • Total Recall by Ronald Shusett & Dan O’Bannon
  • Wild Wild West by S. S. Wilson & Brent Maddock and Jeffrey Price & Peter S. Seama
  • William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet by Craig Pearce and Baz Luhrmann

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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