Featured Friday: Survival Thrillers
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week.
This week, we’re dropping you into the wilderness with some of our favorite survival thrillers. If you read Hatchet in middle school and thought, “I could do better than that kid,” this is the collection for you!
Our collection includes:
- 127 Hours by Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy
- All Is Lost by J.C. Chandor
- Cast Away by William Broyles Jr.
- Lone Survivor by Peter Berg
- Lost - “Pilot” by J.J. Abrams & Damon Lindelof
- Snowpiercer by Bong Joon-ho
- The Last of Us - “Long Long Time” by Craig Mazin
- The Martian by Drew Goddard
- The Revenant by Mark L Smith
- The Wilds - “Pilot” by Sarah Streicher
- Thirteen Lives by William Nicholson
- Yellowjackets - “Pilot” by Ashley Lyle & Bart Nickerson
Read these and other featured collections only on Weekend Read 2, available on all Mac and iOS devices. Download for free!
Check out last week’s screenplay collection of Chase Movies!
Weekend Read 2 is the iPhone and iPad app that turns screenplays and text files into smooth, scrollable reading experiences. It automatically reformats PDFs, Highland, Final Draft, and Markdown files into a clean, mobile-friendly layout—no pinching or zooming required. You can browse curated screenplay libraries, import your own files from iCloud, Dropbox, and Google Drive, and organize everything with pins, filters, and custom lists. Highlight character dialogue, take notes, and use high-quality voices for read-aloud mode. Weekend Read 2 is designed for reading scripts anywhere, anytime.
