Table Reads

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 no way to call this script awful, but working through the differences between this and the Back to the Future we know is a blast. Being a feature, it’s split into a few episodes. This is Part 3. Enjoy.

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 no way to call this script awful, but working through the differences between this and the Back to the Future we know is a blast. Being a feature, it’s split into a few episodes. This is Part 2. Enjoy.

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 no way to call this script awful, but working through the differences between this and the Back to the Future we know is a blast. Being a feature, we had to split this up into a few episodes. This is part 1. Enjoy.

Just a quick update to let you know that we have a new site at tablereadspodcast.com

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 episode!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 thing done in a single episode! Enjoy!

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.

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.