Tag: Christopher McQuarrie

Top Gun: Maverick Script

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Year:2022
Director:Joseph Kosinski
Written by:Ehren Kruger (Screenplay), Christopher McQuarrie (Screenplay), Jim Cash (Characters), Jack Epps Jr. (Characters), Justin Marks (Story), Peter Craig (Story), Eric Warren Singer (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself training a detachment of TOP GUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen.
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Mission: Impossible – Fallout Script

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Year:2018
Director:Christopher McQuarrie
Written by:Christopher McQuarrie (Writer), Bruce Geller (Original Series Creator)

Script Synopsis:When an IMF mission ends badly, the world is faced with dire consequences. As Ethan Hunt takes it upon himself to fulfill his original briefing, the CIA begin to question his loyalty and his motives. The IMF team find themselves in a race against time, hunted by assassins while trying to prevent a global catastrophe.
Mission: Impossible - Fallout Script Resources:

  • Mission: Impossible - Fallout Script PDF at Script Slug
  • Mission: Impossible - Fallout Script PDF - [McQuarrie] [1-31-2018] at Script Fly ($)

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  • Mission: Impossible - Fallout ( tt4912910 ) at IMDb
  • Mission: Impossible - Fallout ( 353081 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation Script

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Year:2015
Director:Christopher McQuarrie
Written by:Christopher McQuarrie (Screenplay), Christopher McQuarrie (Story), Bruce Geller (Original Series Creator), Drew Pearce (Story)

Script Synopsis:Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet—eradicating 'The Syndicate', an International and highly-skilled rogue organisation committed to destroying the IMF.
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation Script Resources:

  • Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation Script PDF at Script Slug
  • Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation Script PDF - [McQuarrie, Staples, Pearce] [3/23/2015] at Script Fly ($)
  • Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation Transcript at scripts.com

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  • Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation ( tt2381249 ) at IMDb
  • Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation ( 177677 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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The Mummy (2017) Script

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Year:2017
Director:Alex Kurtzman
Written by:David Koepp (Screenplay), Dylan Kussman (Screenplay), Christopher McQuarrie (Screenplay), Alex Kurtzman (Screenstory), Jon Spaihts (Screenstory), Jenny Lumet (Screenstory)

Script Synopsis:Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient queen whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension.
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The Plot Twist Gamble

Nothing like a sudden turn of the wheel that leaves the audience in disbelief. But what happens when the audience actually disbelieves? Screenwriters are aware of the double edged sword quality of plot twists: they can make a story successful almost by themselves, but can also turn against it if they come off as predictable or implausible.

In some genres (horror, thriller) they have become an expected, almost mandatory device. Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) set the foundations for the use of narrative unreliability in films. And it’s already a great example of a twist that didn’t only aim for shock- it also tried to provide a solid justification for the visual and narrative styles of the film.

Night Shyamalan’s irregular career illustrates both the rewards and the risks of subjecting the story to a plot twist. The recent success of Split may have brought him to a second youth, but for many years, the ‘Shyamalan twists” served more as a burden than a perk, becoming the smoking gun that proves and defines the film’s failure.

So what makes a good plot twist? If Aristotle stated that good art should be both unexpected and inevitable, contemporary screenwriters like William Goldman have pinpointed a reality that Hollywood has exploited well: that a controversial ending may still work effectively if it’s at least satisfying.

Some examples of films with memorable plot twists are:

(1941) The Maltese Falcon

(1958) Vertigo

(1960) Psycho

(1968) Planet of the Apes

(1973) The Sting

(1973) Soylent Green

(1973) The Wicker Man

(1980) The Empire Strikes Back

(1987) Angel Heart

(1992) The Crying Game

(1995) The Usual Suspects

(1995) 12 Monkeys

(1996) Primal Fear

(1999) The Sixth Sense

(1999) Fight Club

(2000) Memento

(2004) Saw

(2006) The Prestige

(2016) Arrival

Edge of Tomorrow Script

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Year:2014
Director:Doug Liman
Written by:Jez Butterworth (Screenplay), Christopher McQuarrie (Screenplay), John-Henry Butterworth (Screenplay), Hiroshi Sakurazaka (Novel)

Script Synopsis:Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back at the beginning of the same day and is forced to fight and die again... and again - as physical contact with the alien has thrown him into a time loop.
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Jack Reacher Script

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Year:2012
Director:Christopher McQuarrie
Written by:Lee Child (Novel), Christopher McQuarrie (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:When a gunman takes five lives with six shots, all evidence points to the suspect in custody. On interrogation, the suspect offers up a single note: "Get Jack Reacher!" So begins an extraordinary chase for the truth, pitting Jack Reacher against an unexpected enemy, with a skill for violence and a secret to keep.
Jack Reacher Script Resources:

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Jack The Giant Slayer Script

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Year:2013
Director:Bryan Singer
Written by:Darren Lemke (Screenplay), Christopher McQuarrie (Screenplay), Dan Studney (Screenplay), Darren Lemke (Story), David Dobkin (Story)

Script Synopsis:The story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only existed in legend–and gets the chance to become a legend himself.
Jack The Giant Slayer Script Resources:

  • Jack The Giant Slayer Script PDF - [1-28-2010] at Script Fly ($)
  • Jack The Giant Slayer Script PDF - [10-24-2008] at Script Fly ($)
  • Jack The Giant Slayer Transcript at scripts.com

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  • Jack The Giant Slayer ( tt1351685 ) at IMDb
  • Jack The Giant Slayer ( 81005 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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The Way of the Gun

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Year:2000
Director:Christopher McQuarrie

Script Synopsis:Two criminal drifters without sympathy get more than they bargained for after kidnapping and holding for ransom the surrogate mother of a powerful and shady man.
The Way of the Gun Script Resources:

  • The Way of the Gun Script PDF - Undated at Script Fly ($)
  • The Way of the Gun Script PDF - Rev Final 8/4/1999 at Script Fly ($)
  • The Way of the Gun Script PDF - 6/1/99 PRODUCTION at Script City ($)
  • The Way of the Gun Transcript at scripts.com

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The Usual Suspects

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Year:1995
Director:Bryan Singer
Written by:Christopher McQuarrie (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors. Verbal lures his interrogators with an incredible story of the crime lord's almost supernatural prowess.
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