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Featured Friday: Fantasy Epics

December 20, 2024 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 fantasy epics use their wizards, world building and wonder to create their own kind of magic.

Our collection includes:

  • Game of Thrones – “Pilot” by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by Steve Kloves
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 by Steve Kloves
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 by Steve Kloves
  • His Dark Materials – “Episode 1” by Jack Thorne
  • House of the Dragon – “The Heirs of the Dragon” by Ryan Condal
  • Labyrinth by Terry Jones
  • Onward by Dan Scanlon, Jason Headley & Keith Bunin
  • Pan’s Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro
  • Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope by George Lucas
  • Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back by Lawrence Kasdan and Leigh Brackett
  • Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi by Lawrence Kasdan and George Lucas
  • Stardust by Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens & Stephen Sinclair & Peter Jackson
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King by Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson
  • The Princess Bride by William Goldman
  • The Wheel of Time – “Leavetaking” by Rafe Judkins
  • The Wizard of Oz by Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf
  • Willow by Bob Dolman

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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