Movie MasterREBORN.

THE SPACE TO WRITE.

Write your
Forrest Gump.

Inspired by Eric Roth’s writing ritual.
Yours, for free.

Free. Offline. Yours. v0.4.4 beta

Apple Silicon · macOS 15 or later

Not Apple-notarized. Mac installation help ↗

Actual Movie Master app screenshot showing an original Arrakis scene with Paul and Chani, the real DOS menus and function keys.
Captured from the app. An original scene set on Arrakis.

Six elements.
One rhythm.

Everything a screenplay needs.
Just a keystroke away.

Fountain in.
Beautiful PDF out.

Bring your draft. Export in Courier Prime.
Keep moving.

Your words.
Your computer.

Write offline. Choose where you save.
Use your keyboard. Locked scene numbers.

Choose your layout. US · UK · Dvorak · Turkish Q / F · Spanish · French · German · Italian · Portuguese · Brazilian Portuguese.

Eric Roth at his writing desk, from Academy Originals

A FAMILIAR IDEA.

Great stories.
Simple tools.

In a 2020 conversation, Eric Roth described writing in an old DOS copy of Movie Master. One computer, devoted to the work. That kind of focus is the idea behind this independent app.

Read the conversation

FREE FOR EVERYONE.

A little support.
A lot of possibility.

Always optional.
Free for everyone.

THANK YOU.

Keep the
story going.

Movie Master is free. Every contribution helps write its next chapter.

PayPal

Being set up. Crypto support is available below.

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Always optional. The app is yours either way.

VERSION 0.4.4 · BETA

A few details.

Mac

Apple Silicon, macOS 15 or later. DOSBox-X is included. Open the DMG and drag the app to Applications. This beta is ad-hoc signed and isn't Apple-notarized, so macOS may block its first launch. Read the Mac installation instructions. No Intel Mac build is included.

Keyboard layouts

US, UK, Dvorak, Turkish Q/F, Spanish, French AZERTY, German QWERTZ, Italian, Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese. Choose a layout in Settings. The current text set supports Latin scripts; Cyrillic, Arabic and CJK text are not yet supported.

DOS & Windows

The ZIP includes DOS, WIN32 and WIN64 builds. Windows 10–11: extract the entire ZIP and run START.BAT. DOS: 386+, VGA and extended memory; 32 MB recommended. Keep FONT.TTF and CWSDPMI.EXE beside MOVIEMST.EXE. Windows builds are compiled but haven't been tested on a live Windows machine.

Mac: File → Import Fountain opens the macOS file chooser at Desktop, including Unicode filenames.

First Save: F10 → choose a folder → F5 Save Here → enter a name. Save As and every export let you choose a location again.