Treatments for well known successful movies

[neuro]

I'm trying to draft together a treatment for a film an would like to see a few examples of movie treatments and study how it ultimately transformed int the script, analyze the difference etc. Is there any resource online to at may have a good archive of these? Looking for movies like perhaps Alien, poltergiest, Legend.

thanks for any help!

 

[neuro]

I've continued looking but haven't turned up anything. There has to be some place that has a few of these.

 

[CraigL]

I haven't come across any site that focuses on treatments, nor any real treatments per se. I'm not sure if that's because few movies get one, or if it gets lost and forgotten soon after the real writing starts and it's too late once the movie makes it big.

CraigL

 

[IndiePaul]

I did some digging and found about 20 here:

http://www.simplyscripts.com/treatments.html

Scroll down to the 'Treatments' section.

 

[CraigL]

I did some digging and found about 20 here:

http://www.simplyscripts.com/treatments.html

Scroll down to the 'Treatments' section.

Ah, I found those, but looked at the Spiderman and the Strange Days ones, which looked like full-blown scirpts. I hadn't noticed those little subheadings in the table.

CraigL

 

[neuro]

thank you very much, there are some great ones on there. Very insightful. This should be fun going through some of these. Just glanced at Star Wars, barely resembles the final product

I did some digging and found about 20 here:

http://www.simplyscripts.com/treatments.html

Scroll down to the 'Treatments' section.

 

[kjones]

Here is a Terry Rossio page with some good information and a couple treatments:
http://www.wordplayer.com/columns/wp37.Proper.Treatment.html

 

[geckopelli]

There's no rules to writing a treatment.
Just tell me what happens in your story, throw in any really good quotes, and put in details according to the requested page length.

I write Treatments on the side. Usually the producer wants 3 pages, sometimes 1. I wrote a 32 page treatment on contract once, but I don't believe it was ever read by anyone.

Then there's always good ol' Sidney:

http://www.berezinfilm.com/tools/screenplay-treatment-generator/