Thread by @bryanedwardhill

If you can find Tony Gilroy’s script for this, it’s amazing. It’s one of the scripts I always read before starting on an assignment. There are three scripts I re-read before every feature gig. MICHAEL CLAYTON by Tony Gilroy…

THE HUSTLER by Robert Rossen and Sydney Carroll.

ALIEN by Walter Hill, Ronald Shussett and Dan O’Bannon (but I think the draft I have is mostly Walter Hill).

Depending on the tone of what I’m writing, I’ll also read THELMA AND LOUISE by @CallieKhouri

So four.

Also in the rotation are THE BOURNE SUPREMACY, also by Tony Gilroy…

…and more recently, BLADE RUNNER 2049 by Hampton Fancher and @andmichaelgreen

This one especially for how to build a design heavy world in a script without stacking the page with needless description. It’s so efficient but equally evocative.

I believe most of the above are published. You can also find drafts online in various places.

Now, I’m not nearly as good as any of the people above, hahahaha, but I read them!

And don’t sleep on THE HUSTLER because it’s “an old movie.”

That script SLAPS like it was written tomorrow. It’s so contemporary. Really ahead of its time.