Featured Friday

Featured Friday: Robots and A.I.

Drew Marquardt

21 Mar 2025 — 1 min read

"More human than human"

Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week.

This week, we look at stories of artificial intelligence and how we can reflect humanity in the machines we make.

Our collection includes:

Blade Runner by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples
Blade Runner 2049 by Hampton Fancher and Michael Green
Ex Machina by Alex Garland
Free Guy by Matt Lieberman
Her by Spike Jonze
I, Robot by Jeff Vintar
Pacific Rim by Travis Beacham
Terminator 2: Judgement Day by James Cameron and William Wisher
The Iron Giant by Tim McCanlies and Brad Bird
The Matrix by Lana and Lilly Wachowski
The Mitchells vs. the Machines by Mike Rianda and Jeff Rowe
The Terminator by James Cameron
Upgrade by Leigh Whannell
WALL-E by Andrew Stanton and Jim Reardon
Westworld - “The Bicameral Mind” by Lisa Joy & Jonathan Nolan

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