Read The Screenplay Series

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind awards season’s buzziest film continues with Nickel Boys, the feature directing debut of Oscar-nominated Hale County This Morning, This Evening filmmaker RaMell Ross, who with longtime collaborator Joslyn Barnes adapted Colson Whitehead…

Deadline's Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts fueling the year's most talked-about movies continues with Flow, Janus Films and Sideshow’s dream-like animated feature from director Gints Zilbalodis. Matīss Kaža and Zilbalodis crafted a 35-page cinematic script featuring no dialogue, solely…

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series highlighting awards season’s buzziest movies continues with The Fire Inside, the boxing drama directed by Oscar-nominated cinematographer Rachel Morrison in her feature helming debut from a script from Oscar-winning Moonlight screenwriter Barry Jenkins. The…

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the year’s buzziest movies continues with Thelma, starring June Squibb doing most of her own stunts in a action comedy that marks Josh Margolin’s featuring directing debut and his first screenplay. Magnolia Pictures beat out other…

Deadline's Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts fueling the year's most talked-about movies continues with Neon’s Anora, a zany romantic comedy written and directed by Sean Baker. The film, which won the Palme d'Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, stars Mikey Madison as Anora, a sex…

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series featuring the scripts behind awards season’s buzziest movies continues with I’m Still Here, Central Station and The Motorcycle Diaries filmmaker Walter Salles’ personal political drama from Brazil that just made the Oscar shortlist in the Best International Feature…

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series highlighting the scripts behind awards season’s most talked-about movies continues with Juror #2, the courtroom thriller starring Nicholas Hoult and the 42nd film directed by Clint Eastwood. Jonathan Abrams, who wrote the book for the Broadway Huey Lewis jukebox…

Deadline's Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind awards season's most talked-about movies continues with Small Things Like These, Cillian Murphy's first film after winning the Oscar for his starring role in Christopher Nolan's Best Picture-winning Oppenheimer. Enda Walsh, the…

Deadline's Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts fueling the year's most talked-about movies continues with Better Man, Paramount's musical biopic based on the true story of the meteoric rise, dramatic fall and resurgence of British pop superstar Robbie Williams. The script was penned by…

Deadline's Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the year's most talked-about movies continues with I Saw the TV Glow, A24's coming-of-age psychological horror drama written and directed by Jane Schoenbrun. The film, which world premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival…

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind awards season’s buzziest films continues with Amazon MGM Studios and Actors Equity’s Unstoppable, the inspirational sports drama directed by Oscar-winning Argo editor William Goldenberg in his feature helming debut and starring Jharrel…

Deadline's Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the awards season’s most talked-about movies continues with Challengers, Amazon MGM Studios’ sports drama from director Luca Guadagnino and written by Justin Kuritzkes, the duo that would who would go on to team on this year’s Daniel…