I interrupt my regularly intended post (a Project 333 update—I’ll have it for you later this week) to tell you about something I think is just freaking awesome, both as a writer and as a movie lover.
Apparently, around awards season, studios release scripts that are Best Screenplay contenders. Now, being the amazingly cool person that I am, I actually know people who get to vote in some of the movie awards, and those people often get boxes of free, sometimes yet-to-be-released movies, to view and then vote.
But they aren’t released to the general public.
According to an article in Indiewire, the studios are much more loosey goosey with the screenplays. Yay us! Click here for a list of what’s available, and grab them while they’re still legal. I am particularly excited about Boyhood. I told my husband it was the movie equivalent of Literary Fiction in that nothing really happened, but it was so well done I couldn’t look away and was sad when it was over. Plus, the planning that went in to making that movie…I mean…