When Carson Reeves does a review, I usually listen. Carson wasn’t wrong when stating that The Social Network was one of the best scripts and now Water For Elephants is listed as No. 2 on his Top 10 Scripts of the Year (I say “his” but I have to say I’m not 100% of Carson’s gender). I love that he says: “The biggest surprises for me were scripts like Water For Elephants, Untitled Chef Project, and Drive, all of which I was reluctant to pick up because the subject matter didn’t interest me. Yet once I opened them, the characters drew me in like a champagne sunset on a 70 degree July night.” Yeah I’ve never heard him say that about a Twilight script … oops I said that out loud right. Source Via @scriptshadow Via @rpaustralia.
“2) WATER FOR ELEPHANTS
Genre: Period Drama/Love Story
Premise: (from IMDB) A veterinary student abandons his studies after his parents are killed and joins a traveling circus as their vet.
You know, this is one of those scripts that shouldn’t have roped me in the way it did. It’s basically a love story. But the great thing about Elephants is that it’s a love story wrapped in a loony dangerous unpredictable package - the Bizarro World version of Titanic. Not to mention it has the best villain I’ve read all year hands down (can’t wait to see what Waltz does with it). You’re not going to read anything like this again for a long time.”
If you want to check out the other scripts on the list, click on hyperlink above. And if you, like me, love great cinema, then I recommend you read The Black List which Carson posts every year - it’s a list of the best unproduced screenplays, and I told Vertigo and Michelle the other day that I’m silently praying that Rob was at Dreamworks discussing “Welcome to the People” a few months back. I know it’s just speculation on my part, but I think it’s perfect for him. Rob will you just give us our Christmas present already and tell us what you have lined up post BD!
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