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In this show, we take a look at some of Hollywood's rejected film ideas by digging into unproduced scripts, and (very occasionally) early drafts. Good, bad, they're all fair game.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Close screenplay readings reveal how unrealized drafts could have changed familiar films, from character relationships and creature designs to action staging.
Screenplay Archaeology Podcast treats unrealized movies and alternate drafts as working documents, tracing scenes while asking what each version might have gained or lost on screen.
One minute it's a sandworm skeleton; the next, you're judging Ridley Scott's Dune with Kermit Head.
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A close look at an early Wolfman draft that stays with the script's strangest beats.
Screenplay Archaeology spends this hour with an early Wolfman remake draft, following Kieran Madhead and Xander of Emerald Quill Studios as they pick apart Sir John's role, Lawrence leading Gwen to the unfinished house, and the dream and woods turn that sends the story somewhere…
A blunt, detail-heavy autopsy of Clear and Present Danger's strangest adaptation choices.
Screenplay Archaeology spends this episode tracing Clear and Present Danger from page to screen, and the main draw is the close attention to how the adaptation reshapes character and motive.
A medieval action script becomes a sharp, digressive screenwriting discussion built around its action writing.
Crusade gets treated as a screenwriting dig, with Kermit Head and Chloe returning after a long break to pull apart a medieval action script and what makes the fight scenes work on the page.
A lively adaptation autopsy that keeps the production chaos moving.
Screenplay Archaeology takes a brisk look at an early Dune adaptation story, starting with setup and then following the stranger production choices that make these histories worth hearing.
A strange Gladiator sequel script gets a sharp autopsy instead of a shrug.
The episode stays with a strange Gladiator 2 script as it follows Maximus through dream logic, an afterlife detour, and a run of Christian imagery while Lucius keeps being sent on the road to Rome.
A Driver script gets dissected with sharp, funny, no-nonsense enthusiasm.
Screenplay Archaeology turns a Driver screenplay into a sharp, funny study in adaptation logic. The host follows how the script absorbs missions, locations, and game history while still holding onto its own shape.
A brisk, messy excavation of Ghost Rider 2's strange development path.
Screenplay Archaeology Podcast takes a sharp detour through the development history of Ghost Rider 2: Riders on the Storm, tracking draft changes, shifting powers, and the script mess left behind by production.
A brisk treatment dive that makes the unproduced Godzilla 2 feel oddly alive.
Kieran Madad keeps the Godzilla 2 treatment moving with a clear sense of discovery, treating a 10-page, unproduced sequel to the 1998 Roland Emmerich film as something worth digging into.
Loose, lore-heavy Star Wars conversation.
Screenplay Archaeology Podcast Episode 121 focuses on Tommy Lee Jones's 1999 Blood Meridian script for Cormac McCarthy's 1985 novel, after Kermit Head and Whiskey Brewer frame the project as one of the most attempted McCarthy adaptations.
Screenplay Archaeology looks at a pair of scripts that are said to adapt Jules Verne's *Journey to the Center of the Earth*, and it becomes clear fast that neither one really plays like a clean adaptation.
Screenplay Archaeology turns to Brad Easton Ellis's unproduced American Psycho draft.
The host returns from hiatus to introduce the show's new network affiliation and social media, then begins discussing an unproduced film script.
Screenplay Archaeology looks at an early draft of the 2010 Wolfman remake.
The host analyzes 'Maximum King,' an unproduced spec script by Shea Hatton that fictionalizes Stephen King's coked-up production of Maximum Overdrive.
The host spends the episode on *Clear and Present Danger*, tracing how the novel turns into a screenplay and where the adaptation starts to wobble.
Screenplay Archaeology returns after a long self-imposed hiatus and lands on Crusade, a script deep-dive that opens with a bit of network housekeeping and then veers straight into the episode's odd development trail.
Screenplay Archaeology Podcast Episode 118 covers Rudy Wurlitzer’s 1980 Dune draft, the version Ridley Scott was going to direct before the David Lynch film.
The host analyzes Nick Cave's unproduced Gladiator 2 script, which features Maximus resurrected in a hellish afterlife to battle Roman gods and Christians.
Screenplay Archaeology Podcast episode 116 covers Roger Avery’s October 13, 2006 script draft for Driver, a proposed sequel to the first three games that puts Tanner’s estranged son at the center of a revenge plot.
Kieran Mattad takes on Ghost Rider 2: Riders on the Storm and digs through the sequel’s development history with a pleasantly obsessive amount of draft-level detail.
Kieran Madad opens on Godzilla 2.
This episode analyzes an early draft script of 'The 13th Warrior,' exploring what John McTiernan's original cut might have been like.
The hosts analyze the unproduced Friday the 13th sequel script 'Camp Blood', discussing its plot, characters, and 3D effects.
Kermit Head opens with the show’s new network affiliation and the usual places listeners can find the podcast, then moves into a horror script he has not covered before.
Kermit Head opens with housekeeping, then pivots to screenplay archaeology on the script.
The host introduces the show's new network affiliation and social media, then sets up the episode's focus on unproduced Hollywood scripts.
The host introduces the show and network, then begins discussing an unproduced Hollywood script.
The host introduces the show and network promos before diving into analysis of unproduced Hollywood scripts.
The host introduces the show's new network affiliation and social media, then sets up the episode's focus on unproduced Hollywood scripts.
Host Kieran Medet introduces the podcast, plugs similar shows, and sets up a solo episode about an unproduced film script.
Host Kermit Head discusses an unproduced Godzilla script from the early 80s by Fred Decker, based on a story by Steve Miner, which was intended for 3D.
The hosts discuss a notorious unproduced script adaptation of The Lord of the Rings by John Boorman and Rospo Pallenberg.
Host Kieran McHead discusses an unproduced adaptation of the 1960s TV show The Prisoner, analyzing its script and premise.
The hosts discuss the unproduced script for Chronicle 2: Martyr, a sequel to the found-footage superhero film Chronicle.