Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Unofficial Pony Screenplays for Episodes One and Two

Some crazy brony named Louis took the first 2 episodes and turned them into screenplays, including pretty much every single detail of the show.  Both of them look like they could have come from Lauren Faust herself!  I'm sure the film students out there will find something interesting here.  You can check out both episodes below in PDF google docs form.

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Episode 1
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Episode 2 

31 comments:

Fire.Esper said...

First link leads back to homepage.

Also, GOOD GOD.

Anonymous said...

I'm pretty sure everypony else will notice this, but...episode 1 link goes to the EqD homepage...

Kinda OffTopic: EXTREMELY closing in to 3 Million...about 3K hits in the time of this writing...

Naxts said...

Thats it bronies.

Its time for a play.

Lets do dis

Anonymous said...

Is there a bot giving this site hits? I can't believe we've reached three million already!

Dat fucking Writefag said...

MLP confirmed to have reached Batman status.

NOW THAT'S LEGEND

Display Name said...

Gah...I want to read through this immediately, but if I start now I'll miss number 3 million...

Anonymous said...

These screenplays are really cool.


P.S. 299800 at the time of writing this.

Display Name said...

@Naxts:

...A MLP Broadway show?

WHY DO I AGREE SO WILLINGLY

skippy c said...

3 million, Dear Celestia my life has gone down the drain. a drain which leads to friendship and fun

Anonymous said...

A quick screenwriting lesson. Don't include camera directions. Take out all the JUMP CUT TO: or CUT TO: between every dialogue portion. it's not necessary and will make your screenplays shorter

Cgeta4 said...

Fans create almost anythink that you can imagine, and even things, that you cannot imagine :D

Perhaps in a year there will be even a Fan-Show lol :)

Anonymous said...

Less than five hundred to go! Also, first link just takes me straight back here.

Display Name said...

@Cgeta4:

Potential spin-off ideas:
-Snips & Snails: Private Eyes
-Everypony Loves Rainbow
-At Home With Spike
-Pinkie, You Shrunk The Kids!
-The Life of Luna
-Where Are They Now: Photo Finish edition
-PTV (Pony Televesion) Cribs: Canterlot Castle
-The Sparkle Family

Also, I liked the line "Being winged, Dash and Fluttershy are okay. The other four FALL DOWN THE MOUNTAINSIDE, SCREAMING."

Anonymous said...

3000000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

Three millions. Congratulations!

Anonymous said...

HAPPY 3 MILLION!

Anonymous said...

3000000!!!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

Awesome banner!!!

Anonymous said...

THREE MILLIONJ

kwj said...

3 million yay!!!

actually 358 more than three million but three million anyway yay!!

Tigerflame said...

3,000,000!!! *gasp* yay!

skippy c said...

3 million get. woooooooooo

SonicBrawler1992 said...

Woohoo! I screencap'd it :D

Anonymous said...

3 million!!! Also I think ED looks better in purple.

Sethisto said...

Link should work, Sorry I was working on the banner ;p

Display Name said...

Luna takeover?

I approve.

Louis said...

There's this popular conceit by professional filmmakers that:

1 page of script = 1 minute of screentime.

When I wrote these screenplays, I took great pains to write ONLY what a production team NEEDED to know; very basic, straightforward, clear-cut minimal stage directions.

And still, these 22-minute episodes translated to 36-page scripts.

I wonder if Lauren Faust had a problem with this?

AugieDog said...

@Louis
Maybe adjust the margins? 1 inch all around 'cause it looks like you've got extra on the left-hand side of the page.

Anon Writepony said...

@Naxts
@Display Name

Just going to tell you peoples that I've been working on "My Little Musical" for the past month or so. Hoping to start auditioning process for the voiceover artists soon.

As for this screenplay adaptation, I agree with anon way up there. There's way too much description for a screenplay, and the camera descriptions and inclusions of words such as "we" and "us" is unnecessary. Still; cool to see that someponies are doing things like this!

Anonymous said...

Here's a real script from Foster's for comparison: http://www.cmsquared.net/Resources/AffairWeather2ndDraft.pdf

Louis said...

I'd like to offer a special word of thanks to the guy who linked the Foster's script.

You've just helped me out more than you know.

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