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Table Reads

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Shawn, Josh and Jeff work tirelessly to bring to life the screenplays that Hollywood tried to keep from you! Movies that were never made, but should have been! Movies that were never made and for good reason! Movies that definitely should NOT have been made, but you kind of wish you could see them anyway!

These brave scriptonauts subject themselves to scripts good and bad (mostly bad), acting them out and editorializing for your entertainment!
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Episodes

13 - BTTF First Draft, Part 3

Hey, did you know that Back to the Future was originally written in 1981, featured a refrigerator-based time machine, an organ grinder monkey named Shemp and a bonkers ending? It stalled out for a few years before being rewritten as the movie we all know and love but we wanted to explore what might have been, if only someone had jumped at that original draft. This is our first foray into material outside our own body of work and we had a LOT of fun with it! Unlike what we’ve done so far, there’s...

Jun 14, 20161 hr 8 min

12 - BTTF First Draft, Part 2

Hey, did you know that Back to the Future was originally written in 1981, featured a refrigerator-based time machine, an organ grinder monkey named Shemp and a bonkers ending? It stalled out for a few years before being rewritten as the movie we all know and love but we wanted to explore what might have been, if only someone had jumped at that original draft. This is our first foray into material outside our own body of work and we had a LOT of fun with it! Unlike what we’ve done so far, there’s...

Jun 07, 20161 hr 15 min

11 - Back to the Future First Draft, Part 1

Hey, did you know that Back to the Future was originally written in 1981, featured a refrigerator-based time machine, an organ grinder monkey named Shemp and a bonkers ending? It stalled out for a few years before being rewritten as the movie we all know and love but we wanted to explore what might have been, if only someone had jumped at that original draft. This is our first foray into material outside our own body of work and we had a LOT of fun with it! Unlike what we’ve done so far, there’s...

May 31, 201659 min

10 - Ghostbusters, The Next Gen

After taking a prolonged hiatus to wrap up some projects, Table Reads is back with new episodes EVERY TUESDAY. (this one is a day late due to some technical difficulties, but from here on out, you can expect to be able to listen on your Tuesday morning commute, if you so wish!) In this episode, Shawn and Trevor dip back into the well to a collaborative effort from around the turn of the millennium: Their never-completed Ghostbusters Reboot! This one is a shorty, they got it all done in a single ...

May 25, 201639 min

09 - Urban Folktale Part 6

In our teen years, we wrote a short heist film that was later turned into a mopey teen angst NOT-Heist film. THIS is that mopey teen-angst not-heist film. It was the first feature-length screenplay we ever wrote and, guys, it stinks. BUT, this is also the third draft. So imagine how bad the earlier two must have been, eh?Being a feature, we had to split this one up into a few episodes. This the LAST PART. Enjoy.

Jan 12, 20161 hr 22 min

08 - Urban Folktale Part 5

In our teen years, we wrote a short heist film that was later turned into a mopey teen angst NOT-Heist film. THIS is that mopey teen-angst not-heist film. It was the first feature-length screenplay we ever wrote and, guys, it stinks. BUT, this is also the third draft. So imagine how bad the earlier two must have been, eh?Being a feature, we had to split this one up into a few episodes. This is part 5. Enjoy.

Dec 21, 201559 min

07 - Urban Folktale Part 4

In our teen years, we wrote a short heist film that was later turned into a mopey teen angst NOT-Heist film. THIS is that mopey teen-angst not-heist film. It was the first feature-length screenplay we ever wrote and, guys, it stinks. BUT, this is also the third draft. So imagine how bad the earlier two must have been, eh?Being a feature, we had to split this one up into a few episodes. This is part 4. Enjoy.

Dec 16, 201559 min

06 - Urban Folktale Part 3

In our teen years, we wrote a short heist film that was later turned into a mopey teen angst NOT-Heist film. THIS is that mopey teen-angst not-heist film. It was the first feature-length screenplay we ever wrote and, guys, it stinks. BUT, this is also the third draft. So imagine how bad the earlier two must have been, eh?Being a feature, we had to split this one up into a few episodes. This is part 3. Enjoy.

Dec 07, 20151 hr 2 min

05 - Urban Folktale Part 2

In our teen years, we wrote a short heist film that was later turned into a mopey teen angst NOT-Heist film. THIS is that mopey teen-angst not-heist film. It was the first feature-length screenplay we ever wrote and, guys, it stinks. BUT, this is also the third draft. So imagine how bad the earlier two must have been, eh?Being a feature, we had to split this one up into a few episodes. This is part 2. Enjoy.

Nov 25, 20151 hr

04 - Urban Folktale, Part 1

Our last episode was a short heist film that was based on an earlier short heist film that was turned into a mopey teen angst NOT-Heist film. THIS is that mopey teen-angst not-heist film. It was the first feature-length screenplay we ever wrote and, guys, it stinks. BUT, this is also the third draft. So imagine how bad the earlier two must have been, eh?Being a feature, we had to split this one up into a few episodes. This is part 1. Enjoy.

Nov 16, 201548 min

03 - Aftermath

For this episode, we jump forward several years to a collaboration we made when we were much more mature and wise in the ways of the world. …Only to remind ourselves that 19 is probably the least enlightened age ever, because you think you’re so damn enlightened. This is our reworking of our earlier take on a Tarantino-esqe heist movie, after that earlier take was re-worked into a mopey mope-fest without a heist. Unlike Highlander, this is a complete short film and we managed to get the whole th...

Nov 07, 20151 hr 9 min

02 - Highlander Part 2

It’s part 2 of Highlander: The Immortal Battle Continues! This episode has the backhanded honor of containing what MUST be the worst line of dialogue in the history of mankind. We timed it, and it had us laughing so hard at its terribleness that we couldn’t form a sentence for nearly 4 whole minutes.

Nov 06, 20151 hr 1 min

01 - Highlander, Part 1

For our inaugural edition of Table Reads, we delve all the way back to our earliest collaboration when we were 15 years old: A Highlander Fan Film! And, yes, it is JUST as cringingly bad as you think it is! The script is only 16 pages long, but there was so much to mock, we couldn’t even get through it in a single episode.Here is part one. Please, mock us. We deserve it.

Nov 05, 20151 hr 2 min
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