The paper is devoted to Direct speech as unique syntactic unit among other types of speech. It is spoken in detail about main tendencies of its transformation on the material of modern Russian prose and screenplay. The modern discourse stimulates development of the new syntactic phenomena. The main task is to make evident unique compositional and syntactic organization of Direct speech. The development of it was determined by a number of factors. The actual syntactic processes are considered in the aspects of language, speech and text. Screenplay is more receptive to novelty than any other text type. Among the central features of screenplay is focus on representing the audiovisual reception.Quotations from the works of L.Petrushevskaya, B. Akunin, V. Pelevin, T. Tolstaya demonstrate that Direct speech has untapped potential as one of the stylistic highlights of contemporary Russian prose and screenplay. In conclusion the main problems of its transformation are characterized.