In addition to catching a Tribeca Film Festival short called Rider and the Storm and that American Masters Mel Brooks doc I have three recently-arrived scripts to read this weekend: Billy Ray‘s Maersk Alabama, based on “A Captain’s Duty” by Richard Phillips and otherwise known as the basis of Paul Greengrass‘s Captain Phillips; George Clooney and Grant Heslov‘s The Monuments Men, which runs 145 pages so expect a longish running time; and Tom Shepherd‘s Hey, Stella!, an HBO-ish period piece about how the very young Marlon Brando landed the stage role of Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire.
