What's the difference between a script and a screenplay?

[ak]

I recently bought "The Art Of Attack Of The Clones" book, and included was the "screenplay" for the film. It wasn'l laid out like a script at all. Infact, it looked a lot darn easier to write than a script.

Could someone please spread some light on the situation.....

[Scarface98.9]

maybe the printing company misframed it. scripts and screenplays are the same

[ak]

What confused me about the AOTC screenplay is that the content seems to suggest it's the same as a script, but the format is not like a script at all, and I would have thought this was a bit sloppy.

[PhantomRhyter]

ak,

I'd be interested in knowing what that so- called screenplay was, cause as far as I've always known them scripts and screenplays are the same thing. Would you mind copying a brief section of this 'AOTC screenplay'?
I'm thinking that what you have must be a treatment (or plot outline as its sometime called) and not an actual screenplay.

Chills,
PhantomRhyter

[ak]

It is a full screenplay.

It's included at the back of afore-mentioned book.

Like I said, it is not in the format of a script at all....the type-face is not Courier 12, and the layout just isn't like a script. you'd have to see it for yourself to know, I have no way of scanning it in at the moment to put it on the net, my scanner is broken.

[This message has been edited by ak (edited 07-20-2002).]

[Ronaldinho]

When you buy these things in book form, you're buying what's called a contiuity script. Somebody wrote it, after the fact, to match the movie.

It has very little to do with the original screenplay for the movie, except insomuch as it's supposed to fool people who don't know any better.