Featured Friday

Featured Friday: Swords and Sandals

Drew Marquardt

04 Apr 2025 — 1 min read

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

This week, inspired by Christina Hodson’s recommendation on a recent Scriptnotes for great action writing, we look at one of the oldest genres: the sword and sandals epic.

Our collection includes:

300 by Zack Snyder & Kurt Johnstad and Michael B. Gordon
Conan the Barbarian by Thomas Dean Donnelly & Joshua Oppenheimer
Gladiator by David Franzoni and John Logan
Gladiator II by David Scarpa
Spartacus - “The Red Serpent” by Steven S. DeKnight
Troy by David Benioff
Xena: Warrior Princess - “Pilot” by R.J. Stewart

Read these and other featured collections only on Weekend Read 2, available on all Mac and iOS devices. Download for free!

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