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screenplay

[ skreen-pley ]

/ ˈskrinˌpleɪ /

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noun

a motion-picture or television scenario.

Older Use. a motion picture.

Origin of screenplay

First recorded in 1915–20; screen + play

Words nearby screenplay

screening, screening test, screenings, screenland, screeno, screenplay, screensaver, screenshort, screenshot, screenwriter, screet

Example sentences from the Web for screenplay

Corden has actually been attached to Into the Woods since the first reading of the screenplay two-and-a-half years ago.

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Does the process of writing a novel differ wildly from writing a screenplay?

David Cronenberg: Why Frustrated Novelists Hate the Screenplay |Craig Hubert |October 13, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Star Wars was meant to be watched as a film, not read as a screenplay.

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If anyone pitched this as a screenplay, no one would have bought it.

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Abrams will direct the first film, Star Wars Episode VII, scheduled for 2015, and write the screenplay with Kasdan.

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British Dictionary definitions for screenplay

screenplay

/ (ˈskriːnˌpleɪ) /

noun

the script for a film, including instructions for sets and camera work