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<p>A <b>scriptment</b> is a written work by a movie or television <a href="Screenwriter" title="Screenwriter">screenwriter</a> that combines elements of a <a href="Screenplay" title="Screenplay">script</a> and <a href="Film_treatment" title="Film treatment">treatment</a>, especially the dialogue elements, which are formatted the same as in a screenplay. It is a more elaborate document than a standard draft treatment. Some films have been shot using only a scriptment.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origin">Origin</h2></div>

<p>The term <i>scriptment</i> was originally coined by filmmaker <a href="James_Cameron" title="James Cameron">James Cameron</a>, possibly during his early involvement in the development of the <i><a href="Spider-Man_in_film" title="Spider-Man in film">Spider-Man</a></i> film series. In that effort, after the success of his 1984 film <i><a href="The_Terminator" title="The Terminator">The Terminator</a></i>, Cameron wrote a 57-page scriptment for the first proposed <i>Spider-Man</i> film, which was used by screenwriter <a href="David_Koepp" title="David Koepp">David Koepp</a> to write the first draft, incorporating it nearly word for word.<sup id="cite_ref-TotalFilmJan10_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TotalFilmJan10-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>Cameron's scriptment for <i><a href="Titanic_(1997_film)" title="Titanic (1997 film)">Titanic</a></i> (1997) was 131 pages.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The term became more widely known when Cameron's 1994 scriptment for the 2009 film <i><a href="Avatar_(2009_film)" title="Avatar (2009 film)">Avatar</a></i> was leaked on the internet during pre-production, although other directors, such as <a href="John_Hughes_(filmmaker)" title="John Hughes (filmmaker)">John Hughes</a> and <a href="Zak_Penn" title="Zak Penn">Zak Penn</a>, had written scriptments before. The scriptment for <i>Avatar</i> and its notoriety caused the spread of the term.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Elements">Elements</h2></div>

<p>A scriptment borrows characteristics from both a regular <a href="Screenplay" title="Screenplay">screenplay</a> and a film treatment and is comparable to a <a href="Step_outline" title="Step outline">step outline</a>: the main text body is similar to an elaborate draft treatment, while usually only major sequences receive scene location headings (<a href="Screenplay_slug_line" class="mw-redirect" title="Screenplay slug line">slug lines</a>), which is different from the extensive slug line formatting in standard screenplays, where every new scene or shot begins with an INT./EXT. DAY/NIGHT slug line set above the description or dialogue. However, just as a treatment can be short or long, a scriptment can exist in various degrees of completion depending on how much time the writer has devoted to it and a more fully developed one could have all slug lines in place, a great deal of dialogue, and only require the producer's (or a writing partner's) okay on the direction the finished script should take before proceeding further.

</p><p>In a scriptment, scenes and shots may be separated as paragraphs or sentences and, if it is the writer's style, can also include an occasional explanatory note, such as might be important in an adaptation or a sequel. As with standard treatments, much of the dialogue is summarized in action. The longer the scriptment, however, the more likely it contains dialog scenes that are fully developed. Single words or brief phrases of dialogue can be included within the description and lengthier exchanges are formatted exactly as a regular screenplay, which is the main reason for the "script" part of the term.

</p><p>The longer the scriptment, the more likely it is written shot to shot as opposed to scene by scene; thus, a long, detailed scriptment does not necessarily equate to a longer movie, as a typical 90-120 page screenplay written with master scenes contains many more individual shots than are immediately apparent.

</p><p>A scriptment can begin with FADE IN: top left and conclude with a centered THE END. It can have a title page like a script and lengthier treatment. It is written single spaced with an empty space between paragraphs and other elements and the pages are numbered in the upper right corner, just as in a screenplay.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Work-in-progress_manuscript">Work-in-progress manuscript</h2></div>

<p>Directors and screenwriters write scriptments as an intermediate stage in development from the draft treatment to the first draft of the screenplay. Like a draft treatment, a scriptment can be anywhere from 20 to 80 or more pages, while regular presentation treatments or <a href="Step_outline" title="Step outline">outlines</a> only summarize the plot, typically in not more than 30 pages.

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<ul><li>For the <a href="Batman" title="Batman">Batman</a> feature film <i><a href="The_Dark_Knight" title="The Dark Knight">The Dark Knight</a></i> (2008), writer <a href="David_S._Goyer" title="David S. Goyer">David S. Goyer</a> and the film's director <a href="Christopher_Nolan" title="Christopher Nolan">Christopher Nolan</a> wrote a scriptment that was then used by Nolan and his brother <a href="Jonathan_Nolan" title="Jonathan Nolan">Jonathan Nolan</a> to expand further into a finished screenplay. "I wrote what you'd call a 'scriptment' with Chris over an accelerated month long period, and then we handed it off to his brother [Jonathan], who did the first pass," explains Goyer.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul>

<ul><li>The sci-fi movie <i><a href="Transformers%3A_Revenge_of_the_Fallen" title="Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen">Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen</a></i> (2009) reportedly used a scriptment during the screenplay writing process by <a href="Roberto_Orci" title="Roberto Orci">Roberto Orci</a>, <a href="Alex_Kurtzman" title="Alex Kurtzman">Alex Kurtzman</a>, <a href="Ehren_Kruger" title="Ehren Kruger">Ehren Kruger</a> and director <a href="Michael_Bay" title="Michael Bay">Michael Bay</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul>

<ul><li>Filmmaker <a href="Wayne_Spitzer" title="Wayne Spitzer">Wayne Spitzer</a> used a scriptment while writing the adaptation of author Algernon Blackwood's 1907 supernatural short story "<a href="The_Willows_(story)" title="The Willows (story)">The Willows</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul>

<ul><li>Comic book writer <a href="Warren_Ellis" title="Warren Ellis">Warren Ellis</a> has written that he sometimes works in the scriptment style.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Presentation_manuscript">Presentation manuscript</h2></div>

<p>A scriptment can also be a presentation document; that is, one that is sold or handed in as the finished work.

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<ul><li>Writer-director-producer James Cameron delivered a 57-page scriptment that he was contracted to write during the development phase of the first <i>Spider-Man</i> (2002) theatrical movie, which he was also going to direct. When Cameron left the project, screenwriter David Koepp expanded it into a first draft script, which was later worked on by other uncredited writers.<sup id="cite_ref-TotalFilmJan10_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TotalFilmJan10-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>

<li>In 2005, <a href="Sony_Pictures" title="Sony Pictures">Sony Pictures</a> paid screenwriter Ken Nolan US $3 million for his 75-page scriptment that was an adaptation of the then-unpublished <a href="Whitley_Strieber" title="Whitley Strieber">Whitley Strieber</a> novel <i>The Grays</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nolan had only one produced writing credit at the time, the screenplay for the military film <i><a href="Black_Hawk_Down_(film)" title="Black Hawk Down (film)">Black Hawk Down</a></i>, a project for which he had submitted three different scriptments to producer <a href="Jerry_Bruckheimer" title="Jerry Bruckheimer">Jerry Bruckheimer</a> and executive producers Mike Stenson, and Chad Oman for approval during the writing process.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul>

<ul><li>Filmmakers Kriv Stenders and Richard Green used the scripment format to make their 2007 film <i>Boxing Day</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul>

<ul><li>The 2008 movie <i><a href="Cloverfield" title="Cloverfield">Cloverfield</a></i> written by <a href="Drew_Goddard" title="Drew Goddard">Drew Goddard</a>, directed by <a href="Matt_Reeves" title="Matt Reeves">Matt Reeves</a>, and produced by <a href="J._J._Abrams" title="J. J. Abrams">J. J. Abrams</a>, was greenlighted for production by <a href="Paramount_Pictures" title="Paramount Pictures">Paramount Pictures</a> President of Production Brad Weston and <a href="Brad_Grey" title="Brad Grey">Brad Grey</a>, Chairman, based on a 65-page scriptment.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The film was also shot using the scriptment.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul>

<ul><li>The 2008 improv comedy movie <i><a href="The_Grand_(film)" title="The Grand (film)">The Grand</a></i>, written by <a href="Zak_Penn" title="Zak Penn">Zak Penn</a> and Matt Bierman, was filmed using a scriptment.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Penn said their scriptment "started at about 25 pages and it was just a document that explained who the characters were and what the scenes were."<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul>

<ul><li>Also using a scriptment for filming was the 2008 comedy <i><a href="Reno_911!%3A_Miami" title="Reno 911!: Miami">Reno 911!: Miami</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> written by Robert Ben Garant, <a href="Thomas_Lennon_(actor)" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Lennon (actor)">Thomas Lennon</a>, and <a href="Kerri_Kenney-Silver" title="Kerri Kenney-Silver">Kerri Kenney-Silver</a>.</li></ul>

<ul><li>It was reported on the movie news website <a href="Ain't_It_Cool_News" title="Ain't It Cool News">Ain't It Cool News</a> on December 1, 2008 that a scriptment was involved in developing a possible new <i><a href="Speed_(1994_film)" title="Speed (1994 film)">Speed</a></i> sequel or remake: "There's a scriptment floating around that reintroduces Jack Traven. So the studios are hoping to get Keanu back on board."<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul>

<ul><li>Director-producer-writer <a href="John_Hughes_(filmmaker)" title="John Hughes (filmmaker)">John Hughes</a> wrote a 70-page scriptment for the Owen Wilson-starring comedy <i><a href="Drillbit_Taylor" title="Drillbit Taylor">Drillbit Taylor</a></i> (2008) that was used years later by screenwriters Kristofor Brown and <a href="Seth_Rogen" title="Seth Rogen">Seth Rogen</a> as the basis for a revised finished screenplay.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul>

<ul><li>The 2009 comedy film <i><a href="I_Love_You%2C_Beth_Cooper_(film)" title="I Love You, Beth Cooper (film)">I Love You, Beth Cooper</a></i>, written by <a href="Larry_Doyle_(writer)" title="Larry Doyle (writer)">Larry Doyle</a>, originated as an 85-page scriptment that was shopped around Hollywood and then subsequently turned into a book manuscript.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul>

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<cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.aintitcool.com/node/39284">"Seems There's A New SPEED Project Zooming Around Out There..."</a><span class="reference-accessdate"> Retrieved <span class="nowrap">May 9,</span> 2009</span>.</cite></span>

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<cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.empiremovies.com/?p=11749">"Owen Wilson is Drillbit Taylor"</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">May 9,</span> 2009</span>.</cite>EmpireMovies.com June 20, 2006. Quote: "The story is based on an original idea by John Hughes who wrote a 70-page scriptment a couple of years ago."</span>

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<cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090503075833/http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1804494942/bio">"Seth Rogan Bio - movies.yahoo.com"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1804494942/bio">the original</a> on May 3, 2009<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">May 9,</span> 2009</span>.</cite>Quote excerpt: "...co-wrote the screenplay based on a John Hughes scriptment of the high school comedy, "Drillbit Taylor" (2008)..."</span>

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<cite id="CITEREFStoval2009" class="citation journal cs1">Stoval, Adam (July–August 2009). "Now Playing: I Love You, Beth Cooper, Screenplay by Larry Doyle". <i>Creative Screenwriting</i>. Los Angeles: 63.</cite> "Doyle quickly had his theme, characters and obviously his inciting event—which led him to write an 85-page combination script and outline that everyone passed on. ... In between meetings [with New York publishers], his film agent called to tell him that Hollywood had read the hundred pages as well and wanted to make the movie."</span>

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<li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/springbooks07/reviews">"Chicago Reader - Review: I Love You, Beth Cooper"</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">July 16,</span> 2009</span>.</cite> "Ironically, I Love You, Beth Cooper had its origin in a 'scriptment' by Larry Doyle that an LA talent agency rejected as uncastable. Now it's been optioned by Chris Columbus and picked up by a studio;"</span>

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<p><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"></span> The dictionary definition of <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scriptment" class="extiw external" title="wiktionary:scriptment"><i>scriptment</i></a> at Wiktionary

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