Our original screenplay books (in digital screenplay formats and print) allow readers to enter a different world for entertainment and/or inspiration. Whether you’re starving for an idea to shoot or just looking for a quick easy piece to build off of, Broken English Books treat screenplays as literature and encourage artists to use them to get back to creating.
We also provide more depth than your traditional screenplay does in order to offer the reader more insight into the writer’s intention. While we love traditional books and screenplays, anyone that’s familiar with both knows how different the level of detail goes depending on which you’re reading. With Broken English Books we tend to go a little deeper so that if you want to take from the material, you understand things clearly.
The screenplay has always acted as a vague blueprint for a production but the final choices hold infinite possibilities. Creators’ visions and influences will take the same line of description or dialogue and produce a wholly different image and thus we provide the starting point.
Original Screenplay Books
Tell me about Broken English Books. How does it work?
How can I use the screenplays?
How can I read them in their different formats?
Draw from and expand? Permission-wise, what does that mean?
Why should I read the properly formatted versions?
What are the limitations of creating from one of your books?
I don’t like it. I want my money back.
How does Broken English Books work?
The way Broken English Books works is that we sell original screenplays for people to read but also use as a stepping stone into filmmaking and their own development. Sometimes it’s hard to find inspiration or under-exploited source material. We provide an alternative to that.
The main driving idea behind Broken English Books (a subsidiary of Broken English Films) is trying to push the medium of film into the hands of everyone and encourage you to create how you wish. Everyone now has a very capable camera in their pocket with potentially something even greater at home. Combine this and the urge to start shooting and you’re missing one major element – a script or screenplay. That’s where we come in. The material here is to be adapted as you see fit. In any manner. Shoot a scene, shoot the whole thing, spin off something… It’s your call.
For low-budget or no-budget filmmakers a Broken English Books screenplay is an ideal starting point. We don’t mind if you add scenes, expand scenes, drop scenes or whatever you’d like. Treat this as a jump off point and hopefully something to get you moving with your art. It’s meant to inspire something in you. If it fails to, it is what is. Maybe check out a different screenplay.
You may add/remove/alter the text in any way you see fit for your story adaptation.
How can I use the screenplays from Broken English Books?
How can I read them in their different formats?
Draw from and expand? Permission-wise, what does that mean?
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Why should I read original screenplay books in their properly formatted versions?
What are the limitations of creating from one of your books?
I don’t like it. I don’t care about your original screenplay books or that you’ve worked on it potentially for many years, I want my money back. Now.
7-day money back policy on digital products. If you’ve purchased it, you can read it quite quickly. If you insist on breaking our hearts and irrevocably wounding our writing ability confidence, that’s up to you, but as you have the item immediately, you’ll have to seek a refund at a similar speed as opposed to treating the site like a screenplay library. This policy is strictly enforced. If you’ve purchased something from Broken English Books through Amazon, Google, iTunes or another provider, they will have their own respective policies which we ask you to respect and follow as you would with any other purchase.
The download links for our original screenplay books expire 14 days from the purchase date. If you require an additional link after the 14-day window, please contact us
* Please note that although we issue permission to draw from, perform and produce projects from the material, your purchase of a Broken English Book does not signify that you own the writing’s story, copyright or intellectual property itself, that belongs to Broken English Films.