SCREENPLAY Christopher Nolan Screenplays

Christopher Nolan Screenplays


Inde Film Hustle, 13 Sept 2017


All downloadable pdfs, not dialogue transcripts


Dunkirk (2017)
Interstellar (2014)
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Inception (2010)
The Dark Knight (2008)
The Prestige (2006)
Batman Begins (2005)
Memento (2000)
Following (1998)
The keys of the Street (1997)

FILM ADAPTATION How not to adapt a novel

How NOT to Adapt a Novel

Christopher Osterndorf, The scriptlab, 7 Sept 2017


Well, it’s the title isn’t it? Buy the book and then find it’s nothing like you imagined between the covers.

Short but for me not so interesting – despite the tips – because the films discussed are not the sort of thing I would watch, but novel to film is something I return to again.

In any case who can resist films about writers trying adapt novels? Plenty? Oh, well they fascinate writers. And that’s what counts. Though of course we’re on writers adapting novels here. Whereas, what happens when the script gets into the hands of the production team is another matter.


OTHER


The Novel or the Film?


Siobhan Calafiore, The Artifice, 6 Feb 2014


Borrowed her header for my header.


Novel or film is what follows from film adaptation anyway so this is one to stimulate the juices on that topic.

SCREENPLAY: The Myth of the Three-Act Structure

graphic from: A History Of The Three-Act Structure



The Myth Of The Three-Act Structure


Bill Mesce, at ShoreScripts


Chatty. Lot’s of examples.


Well, you’ve done a course or two, got the books, …and you can find as many of these things as there are actual script, but here’s two


Save the Baby! On the Benefits of the Three-Act Screenplay Structure


A History of Three-Act Structure