"Water for Elephants" Makes #2 on Top 10 Scripts of the Year

Scriptshadow chooses the Water for Elephants Script for #2 in the Top 10 Scripts of the Year


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.



The reviewer then mentions Water for Elephants once again:



However I did notice that almost all the scripts had at least one really memorable character, especially the Top 4. 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. So work on those characters people. The concept will get your reader past the title page but once they’re there, it’s the characters that will keep them reading.

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