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Featured Friday: Frankenstein Fables

July 12, 2024 Apps, 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 how writers have adapted, remixed, distorted and exploded the story of Frankenstein’s Monster.

Our collection includes:

  • Edward Scissorhands by Caroline Thompson
  • Ex Machina by Alex Garland
  • Frankenweenie by John August
  • Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein by Steph Lady
  • Poor Things by Tony McNamara
  • Stranger Things – “Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers” by The Duffer Brothers
  • The Fly by David Cronenberg and Charles Edward Pogue
  • The Monster Squad by Shane Black and Fred Dekker
  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show by Jim Sharman and Richard O’Brien
  • Weird Science by John Hughes
  • Young Frankenstein by Gene Wilder & Mel Brooks

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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