Stoker

by Ted Foulke, Wentworth Miller

This screenplay, later adapted into the 2012 film of the same name, was written by Wentworth Miller under the pseudonym Ted Foulk.

After India Stoker turns eighteen and suffers the tragic loss of her father in a mysterious accident, her uncle Charlie shows up, seemingly to console the grieving India and her mother. One India never knew Charlie existed, and now his charismatic and beguiling charm is overtaking her world. Charlie draws India in, but does she succumb to his dark ways, or take control of her life before it is too late?

104 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2010

Reviews

[W · Rating 4 out of 5]

The duet has been stuck in my brain for the past two days, and the tune just playing looping, I had to search something to feed it, and found! I always hoped there’s a book based on the movie, o vice versa, but a screenplay is as good as what I ‘d expected.

[Mariah · Rating 4 out of 5]

I fell into the film's clutches, so when I got my hands on the screenplay, it was inevitable that I would enjoy Miller's writing. As an aspiring screenplay writer myself, the formatting was a great jumping off point for me. A very quick read with interesting, if at sometimes cliched, characters.

[Felicia Johnson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Compelling! I thought the script was amazing! Great writing and a good read.

[Mike · Rating 2 out of 5]

Excellent writing, but plot degenerated with every page. Good, suspenseful start marred by outlandish action and disappointing turns…

[Chiara · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hauntingly beautiful writing.

[Cat · Rating 5 out of 5]

Stoker has basically consumed my life lately, ever since I watched it. I just had to find the written form. up next: the "Uncle Charlie" screenplay

[Eva · Rating 3 out of 5]

I feel like in the movie India kind of surpasses the kind of madness and depravation from Uncle Charlie (she's smarter, more calculating, much colder), while in the script she just goes to appear she's inherited his same traits.
Park Chan Wook is just too good, so I prefer the movie, but I wish this was a book so much that I had to read the script (still obsessed with this movie eleven years later). The first half of the script was more or less up there but in the second half you get why they changed the ending.
I'm still discovering new references in this piece, like India from The Elementals (we all know the Uncle Charlie from Hitchcock), which is why I remembered I had this script somewhere still to be read.

[Eve · Rating 3 out of 5]

very surprised by the script. had a different ending to the original film and I'm not quite sure how I feel about it.