Read The Screenplay Series

Editor's note: Deadline's Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will factor in this year's movie awards races. David Magee had two pieces of source material to work from for A Man Called Otto, the Marc Forster-directed Columbia Pictures remake of the hit Swedish…

Editor’s note: Deadline's Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will factor in this year's movie awards races. Scottish filmmaker Charlotte Wells has been on of this awards season’s biggest breakthroughs with her mesmerizing debut feature Aftersun. The pic…

Editors note: Deadline's Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will factor in this year's movie awards races. For his acclaimed Sony Pictures Classics drama Living starring Golden Globe winner Bill Nighy, director Oliver Hermanus adapted Ikiru, the classic 1952…

Editors note: Deadline's Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will factor in this year's movie awards races. Steven Spielberg said onstage at the Golden Globes on Tuesday that he and his longtime collaborator Tony Kushner have been discussing a way to tell the…

Editors note: Deadline's Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will factor in this year's movie awards races. Producer and Blueprint Pictures co-founder Graham Broadbent was traveling in South America when he received the script for Martin McDonagh's The Banshees o…

Editors note: Deadline's Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will factor in this year's movie awards races. The last time Erich Maria Remarque's classic anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western Front was made as a theatrical motion picture was nearly a century…

Editor’s note: Deadline's Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will factor in this year's movie awards races. Ruben Östlund's second Palme d'Or winner, Triangle of Sadness, inherits its name from a witty Swedish saying that describes the wrinkles that form…

Editors note: Deadline's Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will factor in this year's movie awards races. To eat or not to eat? That is the question posed to a group of affluent diners in the twisted culinary satire The Menu. The Searchlight Pictures film…

Editors note: Deadline's Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will factor in this year's movie awards races. In 2020, the tragic loss of Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman sent writer-director Ryan Coogler into a tailspin. While in the early stages of…

Editors note: Deadline's Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will factor in this year's movie awards races. Writer-director James Gray went back to the personal for Armageddon Time, the autobiographical story that pulls from Gray’s own upbringing in a…

Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will factor in this year’s movie awards races.  With his latest feature Elvis, Baz Luhrmann aims to restore the humanity of Elvis Presley, an artist with depths to equal his talents who in the more…

Editor’s note: Deadline's Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year's movie awards race. Should we stay, or should we go? This is the question asked by the women of an isolated religious community in the awards-contending drama Women Talki…