Update: 2017 Award Season Screenplay Downloads — 8 New Scripts, 30 Total!

Get these PDFs now before the links disappear.

Hollywood studios and production companies are going through their annual ritual of making the year’s movie scripts available to the public. As I update them here and add them to the site’s script archive, what this means is unlike other sites, all scripts here are both free and legal.

Current total of 2017 scripts for download: 30. Newly added scripts (8): Brigsby Bear, A Fantastic Woman, Happy End, Loveless, Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down The White House, Maudie, Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer, Novitiate.

Battle of the Sexes (Fox Searchlight)

Beauty and the Beast (Disney)

The Beguiled (Focus)

The Big Sick (Amazon)

Brad’s Status (Amazon)

Breathe (Bleeker Street)

Brigsby Bear (Sony Classics)

Elizabeth Blue (Nittle Baby Productions)

A Fantastic Woman (Sony Classics)

First They Killed My Father (Netflix)

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (Disney)

Happy End (Sony Classics)

I, Tonya (Neon)

Last Flag Flying (Amazon)

Logan (20th Century Fox) — script hosted by Cinephilia & Beyond

The Lost City of Z (Amazon)

Loveless (Sony Classics)

The Man Who Invented Christmas (Bleeker Street)

Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down The White House (Sony Classics)

Maudie (Sony Classics)

The Meyerowitz Stories (Netflix)

mother! (Paramount)

Mudbound (Netflix)

Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer (Sony Classics)

Novitiate (Sony Classics)

Okja (Netflix)

The Shape of Water (Fox Searchlight) — Note: Broken Link

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Fox Searchlight)

War for the Planet of the Apes (Twentieth Century Fox)

Wonderstruck (Amazon)

Last year, the studios and production companies released nearly 50 scripts, so there’s a lot more to come in the next two months.

Reading movie screenplays is absolutely critical to your development as a screenwriter. Along with watching movies and writing pages, it is a fundamental practice you should put into place. Make it a goal to read at least one movie script per week.

Where can you go to get access to many of the top movie scripts from 2017? Right here at Go Into The Story! And to learn when they first come online, follow me on Twitter: @GoIntoTheStory.

Thanks to Sarah Grimes for tracking the release of movie scripts this year.

Reminder: These scripts are for educational purposes only.

Speaking of which, I am looking for volunteers to do a scene-by-scene breakdown of 2017 movie scripts for our annual script read and analysis series. For more information, go here.

NOTE: These links are temporary so my advice: Download the scripts NOW!!!