The Best Movie You Never Read Part 1

You'd be surprised at the number of screenplays that are published in book form. Is the script to your favorite film on the list? If not, maybe in part 2.

A Serious Man by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
American Beauty by Alan Ball
Brokeback Mountain by Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana
Burn After Reading by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Casablanca by Howard Koch
Chinatown by Robert Towne
Clerks by Kevin Smith
Dead Man Walking by Tim Robbins
Double Indemnity by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind by Charlie Kaufman
Four Weddings and a Funeral by Richard Curtis
Gods and Monsters by Bill Condon
Good Will Hunting by Matt Damon, Ben Affleck
Goodfellas by Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese
Gosford Park by Julian Fellowes
In Bruges by Martin McDonagh
Inglourious Basterds by Quentin Tarantino
Juno by Diablo Cody
Knocked Up by Judd Apatow
Little Miss Sunshine by Michael Arndt
Margot at the Wedding by Noah Baumbach
Milk by Dustin Lance Black
On the Waterfront by Budd Schulberg
Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino
Reservoir Dogs by Quentin Tarantino
Rushmore by Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson
Scarface by Oliver Stone
Shakespeare in Love by Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard
Sideways by Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor
Slumdog Millionaire by Simon Beaufoy
Sunday Bloody Sunday by Penelope Gilliatt
Sunset Boulevard by Billy Wilder
Taking Woodstock by James Schamus
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert by Stephan Elliott
The Birdcage by Elaine May
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by Eric Roth
The Hours by David Hare
The Reader by David Hare
The Royal Tenenbaums by Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson
The Shawshank Redemption by Frank Darabont
Traffic by Stephen Gaghan

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Micah Wright

Micah Wright is a film, television, comic and video game writer.

He has a great site with information on his work. For those interested in comic writing there is a collection of scripts from Micah's run on StormWatch.

Some of Micah's coolest work has never been produced, including an animated show described as "Deadwood with vampires, Frankenstein monsters, werewolves and zombies." Yeah, that sounds awesome to me too.

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