The Reading Room
The Reading Room
Step inside the screenplays. Follow a scene, linger on a line, and see how a story finds its way to the screen.
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8 screenplays to explore
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8 screenplays
Ryan Coogler
A blues-soaked period horror about a juke joint's opening night, when ancestral music draws a vampire clan to the fight for a community's freedom.
110 scenesAbout 124 min read
Read screenplayChristopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan's grounded, present-tense retelling of Homer's epic, intercutting Odysseus's disguised homecoming to Ithaca with the fall of Troy — released July 2026 to acclaim.
199 scenesAbout 143 min read
Read screenplayRobert Kaplow
Robert Kaplow's acclaimed chamber portrait of Lorenz Hart, unfolding at Sardi's on the opening night of Oklahoma!
26 scenesAbout 87 min read
Read screenplayChristopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan's mind-bending, Bond-scaled spy thriller, where bullets fly backward and the fate of the world hinges on a single whispered password: Tenet.
275 scenesAbout 156 min read
Read screenplayTharun Bhascker Dhaassyam
Four childhood friends chase a finished short film across a chaotic Goa bachelor trip, and find out the wound they've been avoiding is the only thing keeping them together.
130 scenesAbout 105 min read
Read screenplayAaron Sorkin
A Harvard sophomore's late-night code and a bruised ego spawn Facebook — and cost him his only friend. Best Adapted Screenplay, 2011.
189 scenesAbout 153 min read
Read screenplayCurry Barker
A lonely music-shop clerk wishes the woman he loves would love him back — and gets exactly that, whether she wants to or not.
61 scenesAbout 85 min read
Read screenplayJosh Singer & Tom McCarthy
The Boston Globe's Spotlight team uncovers the story the city kept for decades. Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay, 2016.
143 scenesAbout 131 min read
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