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Each December since 2004, studio executive Franklin Leonard has compiled the best unproduced screenplays of the year, as voted by hundreds of execs, agency guys, and high-level assistants. Titled The Black List, the compendium highlights both established screenwriters and up-and-comers, and has served as a launching pad in the past for projects like Juno, Lars and the Real Girl, and (500) Days of Summer. Last year’s list included Margin Call, Crazy, Stupid, Love, The Hunger Games, and Snow White and the Huntsman. It should be noted that the headline is somewhat misleading — some of these screenplays have already been acquired and are already in development, though according to Leonard none will have entered principal photography by December 31, 2011. Also worth pointing out is that, as in previous years, there have been rumors that some of the participants have been accused of using the Black List to promote their own clients or friends. Finally, as Leonard reminds us each time, “The Black List is not a ‘best of’ list.
It is, at best, a ‘most liked’ list.” Regardless, we can always rely on the Black List to stir up conversation among both industry insiders and outside spectators alike, so without further ado, hit the jump for the complete 2011 list. 133 votes: by Graham Moore The story of British World War II cryptographer Alan Turing, who broke several German codes but in later life was prosecuted for being homosexual, which led to his suicide. Agent: Creative Artists Agency — J.P. Evans, Jacqueline Sacerio Manager:The Safran Co. — Tom Drumm Producers: Ido Ostrowsky, Nora Grossman producing for Warner Bros.
84 votes: “When the Street Lights Go” by Chris Hutton, Eddie O’Keefe In the early 1980s, a town suffers through the aftermath of the murder of a high school girl and a teacher. Agency: WME — Simon Faber, Sarah Self Manager: Tariq Merhab Management — Tariq Merhab Producers: Imagine Entertainment 59 votes: “Chewie” by Evan Susser, Van Robichaux A satirical, behind-the-scenes look at the making of “Stars Wars” through the eyes of Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca. Agency: WME — Mike Esola Manager: Industry Entertainment — Jess Rosenthal 53 votes: “The Outsider” by Andrew Baldwin In post-World War II Japan, an American former prisoner of war rises in the yakuza. Agency: Creative Artists Agency — Jay Baker, John Garvey Manager: Anonymous Content — Bard Dorros, David Kanter Producers: Linson Entertainment for Warner Bros. 43 votes: by Matthew Aldrich A man goes on a three-state crime spree with an accomplice, his 11-year old daughter. Agency: Creative Artists Agency: John Garvey, Stuart Manashil Manager: Silent R Management: Jewerl Ross Producers: Pearl Street Productions production for Warner Bros. 33 votes: “In the Event of a Moon Disaster” by Mike Jones An alternate telling of the historic Apollo 11 mission to the moon that examines what might have happened if the astronauts had crash-landed there.
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Agency: Creative Artists Agency: David Kopple, JP Evans Manager: The Gotham Group: Lindsay Williams Producer: FilmNation 30 votes: by John Scott 3 As a “walking dead” virus spreads across the country, a farm family helps their eldest daughter come to terms with her infection as she slowly becomes a flesh-eating zombie. Agency: Creative Artists Agency: Billy Hawkins, Dan Rabinow Manager: Trevor Kaufman Producer: Pierre-Ange Le Pogam 30 votes: “The Current War” by Michael Mitnick Based on the true story of the race between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse to develop a practical system of electricity and sell their respective inventions to the country and the world.
Agency: William Morris Endeavor — Simon Faber Manager: Fourth Floor Productions — Jeff Silver 28 votes: “The End” by Aron Eli Coleite Four people — a veteran broadcaster in London, a 16-year-old girl and her boyfriend in Ann Arbor, Mich., and a devoted family man in Shanghai — each try to make peace with their lives before an interstellar event ends the world in six hours. Agency: Creative Artists Agency — Matt Rosen Producer: Warner Bros. 27 votes: “Beyond the Pale” by Chad Feehan Based on William Gay’s novel “Twilight,” teenage siblings suspect they’ve been ripped off by the town undertaker, but what they discover is much more sinister. Agency: Creative Artists Agency — Matt Rosen, Jacqueline Sacerio Manager: Management 360 — Guymon Casady, Mary Lee Producers: Feehan’s The Fort producing for Vendome Pictures 27 votes: “Ezekiel Moss” by Keith Bunin A mysterious stranger who possibly has the power to channel the souls of the dead changes the lives of everyone in a small Nebraska town, especially a young widow and her 11-year-old son.
Agency: Creative Artists Agency — Rowena Arguelles Manager: Kaplan/Perrone — Alex Lerner, Sean Perrone Producers: A Likely Story and Mandalay Pictures 24 votes: “Grace of Monaco” by Arash Amel Grace Kelly, age 33, has given up her acting career to focus on being a full-time princess. She uses her political maneuvering behind the scenes to save Monaco while French leader Charles De Gaulle and Monaco’s Prince Rainer III are at odds over Monaco’s standing as a tax haven. Agency: Creative Artists Agency — Rich Green, Matt Rosen Producer: Pierre-Ange Le Pogam 24 votes: by Lauryn Kahn A social media-savvy girl who is pessimistic about love finds the perfect guy and decides to use her Internet research skills to turn herself into his perfect match. Agency: William Morris Endeavor — Cliff Roberts Producer: Gary Sanchez producing for Fox 2000 23 votes: “Bethlehem” by Larry Brenner A group of people struggling to survive a zombie apocalypse make an alliance with a vampire, trading themselves as food in exchange for protection since zombies don’t eat vampires. Agency: Creative Artists Agency — Martin Spencer, Jacqueline Sacerio Managers: Magnet Management — Mitch Solomon Producers: Roth Films 20 votes: “Powell” by Ed Whitworth Based on the true story of Colin Powell questioning the Bush administration leading up to his United Nations presentation where he made the case for going to war with Iraq. Agency: William Morris Endeavor — David Karp, Cliff Roberts, Dan Cohan Manager: Circle of Confusion — Ashley Berns Producers: Spirit Dance Entertainment 20 votes: by Michael Vukadinovich A prequel to the story of Pinocchio in which Geppetto endures a life of misfortune, war and adventure, all to be with Julia Moon, his true love.
Agency: International Creative Management– Ava Jamshidi Producers: Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps producing for Twentieth Century Fox 19 votes: “The Knoll” by Christopher Cantwell, Christopher Rogers A rookie cop and his potential flame witness John F. Kennedy gunned down from the grassy knoll on Nov. Within hours, they are on the run from the murderers who desperately need them silenced. Agency: ICM — Aaron Hart Manager: Management 360 — Jennifer Graham, Chris Huvane Producers: Management 360 17 votes: “A Many Splintered Thing” by Chris Shafer and Paul Vicknair When a charming heartbreaker finally meets a girl he can’t have, he discovers the true meaning of love by living out other people’s love stories and writing his own. Agency: United Talent Agency — Jon Huddle, Max Michael Manager: Brillstein Entertainment Partners — Missy Malkin Producers: Wonderland Sound and Vision 17 votes: by Justin Malen Two brothers, raised to believe their biological father died, find out their mother slept with many powerful and famous men in the 1970s, and the siblings hit the road to find their real father. Agency: Verve — Bill Weinstein, Rob Herting Manager: H2F — Chris Fenton Producers: The Montecito Picture Co.
Producing for Paramount Pictures 17 votes: “Blood Mountain” by Jonathan Stokes After his team is ambushed and killed in Pakistan, a young Army Ranger must escort the world’s most wanted terrorist over dangerous terrain in order to bring him to justice. While being hunted by both of their enemies, they must find a way to work together in order to survive. Agency: UTA — Rames Ishak, Michael Sheresky, Geoff Morley Manager: Energy Entertainment — Brooklyn Weaver 17 votes: “Crazy for the Storm” by Will Fetters The true story of Norman Ollestad’s relationship with his father, who thrust the boy into the world of extreme surfing and competitive downhill skiing at the age of 3.
But it was that experience that allowed an 11-year-old Norman to survive a plane crash amid a blizzard in the San Gabriel mountains. Agency: WME — Elia Infascelli-Smith Manager: 3 Arts Entertainment — Oliver Obst Producers: Billy Gerber producing for Warner Bros. 17 votes: “Desperate Hours” by E Nicolas Mariani A small town crippled by World War I and the Spanish flu finds itself facing major moral questions and a brutal invading force when a young girl shows up on a rancher’s doorstep covered in blood. Agency: UTA — Charles Ferraro, Jenny Maryasis Manager: Circle of Confusion — Britton Rizzio Producers: Johnny Depp’s Infinitum Nihil producing for GK Films 17 votes: “Flarsky” by Daniel Sterling A political journalist courts his old babysitter, who is now the secretary of State. Agency: UTA — Julien Thuan Producers: Point Grey Pictures 17 votes: “How to Disappear Completely” by Ed Solomon A child prodigy tries to take control of his life away from his demanding parents.
Agency: CAA — Jay Baker, Todd Feldman, David O’Connor Producers: Escape Artists producing for Sony Pictures 16 votes: “The Slackfi Project” by Howard Overman A hapless and brokenhearted barista is visited by two soldiers from the future who tell him mankind is doomed, and he alone can save them. Agency: UTA — Julien Thuan Producers: Matt Tolmach Productions producing for Sony Pictures 14 votes: by Quentin Tarantino A freed slave named Django is trained as a bounty hunter by a German dentist named Schultz, and the two men set out to find Django’s enslaved wife. Agency: WME — Mike Simpson Producers: Weinstein Co. Producing for a co-release between Weinstein and Sony Pictures 14 votes: “St. Vincent de Van Nuys” by Ted Melfi When a 12-year-old in need of a babysitter moves in next door to a misanthropic aging retiree whose life mainly consists of gambling, hookers and drinking, the elder becomes an unlikely mentor to the boy.
Agency: UTA –Ramses Ishak, Michael Sheresky Manager: Infinity Management International — Jon Karas Producers: Chernin Entertainment, Crescendo Productions producing for Fox 14 votes: “The Museum of Broken Relationships” by Natalie Krinsky Lucy, a 28-year-old junior curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, is sleeping with her boss. When he dumps her she begins a collection of “break up items” and starts a blog that goes viral. Agency: CAA — Jessica Matthews Manager: The Gotham Group — Jim Garavente, Jeremy Bell 13 votes: “Saving Mr. Banks” by Kelly Marcel The story of how Walt Disney got the rights to “Mary Poppins.” Agency: WME — Phil Raskind, David Karp Producer: Ruby Films 13 votes: “The Accountant” by Bill Duburque The Treasury Department pursues a brilliant, autistic accountant who doubles as an assassin and “problem solves” with precision in more ways than one.
Agency: Paradigm — Trevor Astbury Manager: Zero Gravity Management — Eric Williams Producers: Silverwood Films 12 votes: “Bridges on the Fort Point Channel” by Chuck Maclean An Irish family in the 1970s, dealing with the loss of their father and the busing of black kids into their white neighborhoods, decides to blow up all the bridges in Boston. Agency: CAA — Billy Hawkins Manager: Oasis Media Group — Allison Doyle, Ben Rowe 12 votes: by Brandon Willer A former FBI psychologist is called into investigate when a young girl goes missing after the apparent murder of her father and brother by two strangers in a small Oklahoma town. Agency: WME — Phil D’amecourt, Jeff Gorin Manager: Benderspink — Jake Weiner Producers: Charlize Theron’s Denver and Delilah Productions 12 votes: “Good Kids” by Chris McCoy Four overachieving high-school students in Cape Cod reinvent themselves during the summer after graduation.
Agency: WME — Simon Faber, Jeff Gorin, Sharon Jackson Manager: The Gotham Group — Shawn Simon Producers: Chris and Paul Weitz’s Depth of Field 12 votes — “The Big Stone Grid” by Craig Zahler A cop is pulled into an underworld organization that brutally murders people to extort money out of others. Agency: UTA — Julien Thuan, Emerson Davis Manager: Caliber Media — Dallas Sonnier Producers: Michael De Luca Productions producing for Sony Pictures 11 votes: “Dirty Grandpa” by John Phillips A young groom engaged to a demanding woman is forced to spend the week before his wedding with his half-blind, half-crazy, and wholly horny grandfather. Through his wild journey, his grandfather shows him how to live life to the fullest and lead with his heart. Agency: UTA — Jon Huddle Producers: Josephson Entertainment for Universal Pictures 11 votes: by Allen Bey, Brandon Bestenheider A family has to defend themselves from the Grims, strange creatures who attack Earth and kill thousands one night every year.
Agency: Verve –Bryan Besser Producers: Marc Platt Productions, Unbroken Pictures for Universal Pictures 11 votes: “Hidden” by Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer An elevated horror-thriller about a family hiding in a bomb shelter after escaping a mysterious outbreak. Agency: Paradigm — Chris Smith Manager: MXN — Mason Novick Producers: Mason Novick, Roy Lee and Lawrence Grey producing for Warner Bros. 11 votes: “Leaving Pete” by Ali Ali Waller, Morgan Murphy A recently divorced author is stunned when his ex writes a popular book about their breakup and he has to keep that fact secret from his new girlfriend, who works for the book’s publisher. Agency: CAA — Bill Zotti, Andy Elkins 10 votes: by Michael Diliberti A down-and-out brother and sister go to Miami to sell a duffel bag of cocaine that they found in the trunk of a Corvette left them by their dead father. Agency: WME — Phil Raskind, Simon Faber Manager: New School Media — Brian Levy Producer: Scott Aversano Productions 10 votes: by Kate Angelo When a married couple make a sex tape to spice up their relationship, it disappears, and they are frantic to get it back. Agency: UTA — Jason Burns Producers: Escape Artists for Sony Pictures 10 votes — “The Flamingo Thief” by Mike Lesieur Grief-stricken over his wife leaving him, a man finds solace in an odd activity swiping figurines of flamingos. Agency: CAA — Rich Green, Adam Kanter Manager: Kaplan/Perrone — Sean Perrone Producers: Kaplan/Perrone, Red Hour 10 votes: “The Gun Eaters” by Alex Paraskevas, Jordan Goldberg Four hardened New York detectives race to apprehend a relentless spree-killer who’s executing victims from Queens to Southampton in the span of a single day.
Agency: UTA — Rebecca Ewing, Keya Khayatian Manager: Oasis Media Group — Ben Rowe Producer: Oasis Media Group 10 votes: “Two Night Stand” by Mark Hammer After an extremely regrettable one-night stand, two strangers wake up to find themselves snowed in after sleeping through a blizzard that put all of Manhattan on ice. They’re now trapped together in a tiny apartment, forced to get to know each other ways more than any one-night stand should. Agency: UTA — Carolyn Sivitz Manager: The Safran Co., Tom Drumm 10 votes: “Watch Roger Do His Thing” by Michael Starrbury A retired hit man gets roped back into the mob business to save his friend’s life and quickly finds himself caught in a struggle trying to finish the job, and get his family out Chicago alive at the same time. 9 votes: “Flashback” by Will Honley A former NASA pilot with amnesia — also the first person to travel the speed of light — realizes he has the ability to travel back in time and along the way rediscovers his love for his life. Agency: Adam Levine Manager: Nuclear Entertainment — Nick Fariabi, Jesse Silver 9 votes: “Friend of Bill” by Harper Dill After a humiliating episode in New York, a young woman returns to her hometown and tries to deal with her alcoholism. Agency: WME — Sarah Self, Jeff Gorin, Sharon Jackson Manager: Mike Dill Producers: Marc Platt Productions, Neda Armian 9 votes: “Jane Got a Gun” by Brian Duffield After her outlaw husband returns home barely alive with eight bullet wounds, Jane reluctantly reaches out to an ex-lover whom she hasn’t seen in over 10 years to help her defend her farm when the time comes that her husband’s gang eventually tracks him down to finish the job.
Agency: Gersh — Devra Lieb, Bob Hohman, Bayard Maybank Manager: Circle of Confusion — Zach Cox, Noah Rosen 9 votes: “Murders and Acquisitions” by Jonathan Stokes The world of high-stakes finance collides with that of high-priced hit men when an ousted chief executive decides to hire an assassin to kill the corporate raider who stole his company. Agency: UTA — Ramses Ishak, Michael Sheresky, Geoff Morley Manager: Energy Entertainment — Brooklyn Weaver Producers: KatzSmith Productions for Warner Bros. 9 votes: “The Last Drop” by Brandon Murphy, Phil Murphy A fully functioning alcoholic meets the girl of his dreams and soon discovers that there’s a lot more at stake than love if he doesn’t clean up his act. Agency: WME — Rich Cook Manager: Mosaic — Langley Perer Producers: Greg Shapiro and Mandate Pictures 9 votes: “The Last Witness” by Stefan Jaworski An FBI agent interrogates an amnesiac, sole survivor of a Boston bombing in order to prevent future terrorist attacks. Agency: Paradigm — Trevor Astbury, Valarie Phillips, Ida Ziniti Producers: Davis Entertainment for Fox 8 votes: “Bad Words” by Andrew Dodge The bastard child of the organizer of the national spelling bee gets his revenge by finding a loophole and attempting to win the bee as an adult, only to find friendship in a young Indian contestant. Agency: UTA — Carolyn Sivitz Manager: Fourth Floor Productions — Jeff Silver Producers: MXN and Darko Productions 8 votes: “Dead of Winter” by Sarah Conradt A teenage girl heads to a remote cabin in the mountains with her father and new stepmother–an experience the father hopes will bond the two.
But when a mysterious wounded park ranger shows up, family bonding will be the least of their concerns. Agency: CAA — Jacqueline Sacerio Manager: Hopscotch Pictures — Sukee Chew Producers: Sherryl Clark, Hopscotch Pictures producing for Wind Dancer and Lionsgate 8 votes: “Gaslight” by Ian Fried Secretly imprisoned in a London insane asylum, the infamous Jack the Ripper helps Scotland Yard investigators solve a series of grisly murders whose victims all share one thing in common: dual puncture wounds to the neck. Agency: WME — Dan Cohan, Mike Esola Manager: Prolific — Will Rowbotham 8 votes: “Home by Christmas — Bob Hope in Korea” by Ben Schwartz Young Larry Gelbart goes on tour with his idol Bob Hope in the middle of the Korean War and learns the true price of heroism. Agency: The Nethercott Agency — Gayla Nethercott Producer: Jon Shestack Productions 8 votes: “Jurassic Park” by Imran Zaidi A high school couple and two of their friends ditch school to catch a special preview screening of “Jurassic Park.” Agency: UTA — Jason Burns, Jenny Maryasis Manager: Management 360 — Darin Friedman 8 votes: “On a Clear Day” by Ryan Engle When a powerful and mysterious force invades an American city, a young father must traverse the battle-worn town in an effort to save his wounded wife and rescue their stranded children. In the process, our hero becomes the target of an enemy who will stop at nothing to kill him. Agency: Original Artists — Chris Sablan, Matt Leipzig Manager: Mosaic — Michael Lasker, Langley Perer Producer: Ombra Films 8 votes: “The Pretty One” by Jenee LaMarque When a woman’s identical, “prettier” twin sister dies, the woman assumes her sister’s identity, moving into her apartment and the big city.
Agency: UTA — Carolyn Sivitz Manager: Management 360 — Mary Lee, Daniel Rappaport Producer: RCR Pictures, Steven J. Berger 7 votes: by David Matthews Two stories from 1974 are linked together — the unsolved murder of an Los Angeles Police Department officer and the nationally televised shootout in South Los Angeles between the members of the Symbionese Liberation Army and the LAPD in which 50,000 rounds of gunfire were exchanged. The events will be seen through the eyes of a pair of police partners, one black and one white.
Agency: WME — Roger Green, Elia Infascelli-Smith Manager: The Schiff Co. — Nicole Romano Producer: Wolf Films 7 votes: “Christo” by Ian Shorr A man is unlawfully sentenced to an infamous prison and escapes, then transforms himself into the mysterious Christo and systematically destroys the men who manipulated and enslaved him. Agency: UTA — Charles Ferraro, Jason Burns Manager: Mosaic — Langley Perer Producer: Bellevue Productions and Langley Park Pictures producing for Warner Bros. 7 votes: by F. Scott Frazier After a military coup takes out the executive branch of government, the country’s survival depends on a Navy SEAL sniper extraction team getting the speaker of the House from Washington to New York.
Agency: WME — Dan Cohan Mike Esola Manager: H2F — Chris Fenton, Chris Cowles Producer: Silver Pictures producing for Warner Bros. 7 votes: by Bryan Fuller A new adaptation of the story of the famous wooden puppet Pinocchio, who dreams of becoming a real boy. Agency: WME — Phil D’amecourt Producer: Dan Jinks Co. Producing for Warner Bros. 7 votes: “Subject Zero” by Dave Cohen A Frankenstein-like tale of a scientist who develops a powerful new drug that brings his son back to life after he dies in a car accident. Unfortunately, the desperate experiment of a loving father leads to the creation of a flesh-eating zombie epidemic with horrific consequences. Agency: ICM — Kathleen Remingon, Emile Gladstone Manager: Generate — Jeremy Platt 7 votes: “The Hitman’s Bodyguard” by Tom O’Connor The world’s best bodyguard must protect his arch nemesis, the world’s top assassin, so he can testify against a brutal dictator and save his wife.
Agency: UTA — Charles Ferraro, Barbara Dreyfus, Emerson Davis Manager: Industry Entertainment — Andrew Deane, Jess Rosenthal. Producer: Skydance Productions 7 votes: “The Wedding” by Andrew Goldberg A group of couples deal with their respective issues as they attend a wedding. Agency: WME — Rich Cook Manager: Underground Films and Management — Josh Turner Maguire Producer: CBS Films 7 votes: “Untitled Hlavin Heist” by John Hlavin An American thief living in Paris is coerced into pulling of a complex heist in order to save his kidnapped wife. Agency — UTA — Jason Burns Producer: Film Rites producing for Dreamworks 6 votes: “Before I Fall” by Maria Maggenti When a popular teen girl is killed in a car crash, she relives the crucial day seven times and makes changes in an attempt to affect the outcome; in the process, she herself changes as she tries to make up for previous heartless, self-absorbed behavior and gains a better understanding of herself and others. She makes the connections necessary to save a bullied, depressed girl’s life and comes to accept her own fate. Agency: Paradigm — David Boxerbaum Manager: Madhouse Entertainment — Robyn Meisinger Producer: Jon Shestack Productions producing for Fox 2000 6 votes: “Breyton Ave” by J. Daniel Shaffer A group of teens living without adults and under their own social order in a small fenced-in neighborhood are forced to face what they fear is the inevitable physical danger beyond the fence.
Agency: Verve — Bryan Besser, Rob Herting Manager: Management 360 — Mary Lee, Jill McElroy Producer: Unbroken Films 6 votes: “El Fuego Caliente” by Ben Schwartz A remake of “Soapdish,” a desperate telenovela star dreaming of Hollywood stardom has her life implode, making her real life crazier than the insane show she made famous. Agency: WME — Rich Cook Manager: Tom Sawyer Entertainment — Jesse Hara, Rachel Miller Producer: Reiner-Greisman producing for Paramount Pictures 6 votes: “Guys Night” by Christopher Baldi Sick of brunches, bosses and light beer, four co-workers set out on the mother of all guys’ nights in an attempt to rediscover their manhood. Agency: CAA — Bill Zotti Manager: New Wave — Mike Goldberg, Josh Adler Producer: Jim Valdez, Matt Bass producing for Millennium Films 6 votes: “Hyperdrive” by Alex Ankeles, Morgan Jurgenson When a tough cop recruits a geeky sci-fi author to help him track down a mysterious murder witness, they find themselves in the middle of a space opera playing out here on Earth.
Agency: CAA/APA: Bill Zotti (Ankeles), Ryan Saul (Jurgenson) Manager: Kaplan/Perrone (Ankeles) Producer: Disruption Entertainment producing for Paramount Pictures 6 votes: “Self/Less” by Alex Pastor, David Pastor An extremely wealthy, elderly man dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness to the body of a healthy young man, but everything may not be as good as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body’s origins and the secret organization that will kill to keep its secrets.
The Black List: 2017 Hollywood’s Best Un-produced Screenplays The 2017 Black List are out. For those of you that don’t know, The Black List is an list of Hollywood’s most liked and unproduced screenplays. To make it on the list is an honor and can launch as screenwriter’s career. This years list has an unprecedented amount of screenplay by and about women. This year’s crop of scripts looks amazing. Congratulations to all these amazing screenwriters.
Former guest and friend of the IFH Podcast talks all about the list in our interview. His blog is the official screenwriting blog of The Black List. Below is the list this year. 76 screenplays in all. To read up on all of these amazing screenplays please visit the official website:. Please note: We have been asked to take down the download link to the Black List 2017 Screenplays.
The Black List 2017 All My Life, Todd Rosenberg After discovering the groom has liver cancer, a couple move their wedding date up and get married before he passes away. American Tabloid, Adam Morrison The true story of Generoso Pope Jr., who with the help of the New York mob turned a small, local paper into the phenomenon that is The National Enquirer, laying the foundation for tabloid journalism as we know it today. Bios, Craig Luck, Ivor Powell In a post-apocalyptic world, a man spends his dying days with the robot he created to look after his dog. Cancer Inc, Marc Macaluso The true story of the corporatization of cancer in the United States told through the eyes of a British Wall Street analyst who uncovers the corruption behind the approval of a drug intended to treat prostate cancer. Where I End, Imran Zaidi In a world where your life can be saved, uploaded to a computer, and restarted in the case of your untimely demise, a husband returns from the dead, suspecting his wife may have been involved in his death. Keeper of the Diary, Samuel Franco and Evan Kilgore Chronicles Otto Frank’s journey, with the help of a junior editor at Doubleday Press, to find a publisher for the diary his daughter Anne wrote during the Holocaust.
Daddio, Christy Hall A passenger and her cab driver reminisce about their relationships on the way from the airport to her apartment in New York. Let Her Speak, Mario Correa The true story of Senator Wendy Davis and her 24-hour filibuster to save 75 percent of abortion clinics in Texas. Ruin, Matthew Firpo and Ryan Firpo A nameless ex-Nazi captain must navigate the ruins of post-WWII Germany to atone for his crimes during the war by hunting down and killing the surviving members of his forme The Fifth Nixon, Sharon Hoffman Watergate as experienced through the eyes of President Richard Nixon’s personal secretary Rose Mary Woods. The Grownup, Natalie Krinsky Based on the short story “The Grownup” by Gillian Flynn. A con woman who pretends to read auras is hired by a wealthy woman to banish an evil spirit from her house, but it is soon clear that the fake exorcist is in over her head. Skyward, Joe Ballarini The true story of two families who attempt to escape over the Berlin Wall using a hot air balloon in 1979.
The Sleepover, Sarah Rothschild When bad guys break into their home and kidnap their parents, siblings Kevin and Clancy are forced to confront the fact that there may be way more to their stay-at-home mom than meets the eye. The White Devils, Leon Hendrix III Cassius raises his sons, Malcolm and Mandela, isolated and alone in the woods. They have never met another person in their entire lives.The boys have learned to survive and protect their fragile family at all cost. When they find a mysterious wounded white girl, June, alone and lost in their woods, prejudice, lies and love set them on a collision course with the real world that puts all their lives at risk.
DOWNLOAD Meat, Logan Martin A misanthropic man notices bizarre changes in himself, his wife, and the animals inhabiting the territory around their homestead as they attempt to survive self-imposed isolation. Green Rush, Matt Tente A paroled ex-con agrees to help his daughter steal medical marijuana tax dollars from city hall. Health and Wellness, Joe Epstein A sociopath obsessed with self-improvement claws her way to the top of the fitness world, leaving a trail of broken bodies in her wake.
Little Boy, Hayley Schore and Roshan Sethi The true story of the man who dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima and his unexpected journey back to ground zero. On, Ryan Jennifer Jones In a slightly futuristic/hyper-efficient Manhattan, a newly single book editor purchases a customizable sex android to assuage her broken heart. When her toy’s closed feedback loop starts to alter her personality, she must reevaluate the merits of a perfectly compatible partner.
Panopticon, Emily Jerome A look at the criminal justice and private prison system, told from the perspectives of a new inmate, a correctional officer, and a Wall Street hotshot. Queen Elizabeth, Shatara Michelle Ford An uptight, high-achieving, black post-grad who becomes (increasingly) irreverent and (slightly) destructive when she realizes that the life she’s living is not the life she wants. The Poison Squad, Dreux Moreland and Joey DePaolo Based on the true story of Harvey Wiley, an eccentric chemist who conducted the first experiment on human tolerance to poison, which catalyzed a movement resulting in the founding of the Food and Drug Administration.
The Prospect, Ben Epstein Michael Jordan uses a year as a baseball prospect to find himself after his father’s death. Rodney & Sheryl, Ian MacAllister-McDonald Based on the unbelievable true story of serial killer Rodney Alcala detectives have estimated Alcala’s body count to be north of 130 victims. Despite being in the midst of a killing spree, Alcala appeared on and won a date with one of the contestants on The Dating Game. Social Justice Warrior, Emma Fletcher and Brett Weiner When a liberal, white college sophomore who knows exactly how to fix society accuses her equally liberal professor of hate speech, it throws the campus and both their lives into chaos as they wage war over the right way to stop discrimination. The Thing About Jellyfish, Molly Smith Metzler After her best friend drowns, a seventh-grade girl is convinced the true cause of the tragedy was a rare jellyfish sting. Retreating into a silent world of imagination, she crafts a plan to prove her theory. Jihotties, Molly Prather In an effort to fund their start-up, two women catfish ISIS and get more than they bargained for when the CIA recruits them as spies.
The Lodge, Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala (Previous draft and original idea by Sergio Casci) A supernatural evil haunts a woman and her stepchildren in a cabin on Christmas. Ballerina, Shay Hatten After her family is murdered, an assassin seeks revenge on the killers. Escape, JD Payne and Patrick McKay When a wrongly accused man is shipped to an Australian penal colony for five years, he quickly realizes his only chance of seeing his family again is to escape the prison with a gang and survive the deadly terrain that awaits on the outside.
Gadabout, Ross Evans In 1951, a manufacturing company stirs up curiosity when they publish a user’s manual to a time machine called Gadabout TM-1050. Heart of the Beast, Cameron Alexander A former Navy SEAL and his retired combat dog attempt to return to civilization after a catastrophic accident deep in the Alaskan wilderness.
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Innocent Monsters, Elaina Perpelitt A writer struggling to crack her second novel starts to lose her sense of reality as the book bleeds into her life and her life bleeds back. The Kingbreaker, Andrew Bozalis and Derek Mether A CIA operative experienced in taking down kings and installing their replacements is brought in to take down a dictator he helped install a few years prior. Liberation, Darby Kealey The true story of Nancy Wake, the most decorated servicewoman in World War II, who led resistance fighters in a series of dangerous missions in Nazi-occupied France. Call Jane, Hayley Schore and Roshan Sethi Before Roe v. Wade in 1960s Chicago, a pregnant woman becomes a member of an underground group which provides abortions in a safe environment. Guests include Jim Uhls (Fight Club), Doug Richardson (Bad Boys), Michael Hauge, Chris Vogler & much more.
Dorothy & Alice, Justin Merz Dorothy Gale and Alice meet in a home for those having nightmares and embark on a journey to save the imaginations of the world. Greenland, Chris Sparling A disgraced father is determined to get his family to what, in four days, will be the only safe place on earth. The Other Lamb, Catherine McMullen A young female coming-of-age story set within an alternative religion. This Is Jane, Daniel Lofin Based on the book The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service by Laura Kaplan. An ordinary group of women provide 11,000 safe, illegal abortions in Chicago from 1968 through 1973.
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Wyler, Michael Moskowitz With Hitler laying waste to Europe and the United States refusing to answer the call to war, Jewish filmmaker William Wyler risks his career to make Mrs. Miniver, the most effective propaganda film of all time. The Boxer, Justine Juel Gillmer A young Polish man escapes from a concentration camp in which he was forced by SS agents to box other Jews, travels to America to begin a successful career as a professional boxer, and reunites with the woman he lost. George, Jeremy Michael Cohen The true story of the Reys, the husband and wife team who fell in love, created Curious George, and escaped the horrors of WWII in Europe together. Hack, Mike Schneider Based on actual reports, a horrifying look inside the Democratic National Committee hack and the Russian manipulation of the 2016 election. Lionhunters, Will Beall A rogue cop suffers a gunshot wound in 1987 and wakes from a coma thirty years later, where he is partnered with a mild-mannered, progressive detective his son.
The Saviors, Travis Betz and Kevin Hamedani A seemingly progressive suburban husband and wife renting their garage through Airbnb become suspicious of their Muslim guests. As they investigate their visitors, they unwittingly trigger events that will forever change the course of human history. Strongman, Nicholas Jacobson-Larson and Dalton Leeb Based on the confusing, sometimes offensive, borderline-insane memories of David Prowse, the irascible Englishman behind Darth Vader’s mask.
Arc of Justice, Max Borenstein and Rodney Barnes Based on the book Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age, written by Kevin Boyle. Chronicles the landmark civil rights trial of Dr. Ossian Sweet after he was charged with the murder of a white man. Don’t Be Evil, Gabriel Diani and Etta Devine, Evan Bates Adapted from In the Plex by Steven Levy and I’m Feeling Lucky by Douglas Edwards. Google’s Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt struggle with their corporate motto, “Don’t Be Evil”, in the face of their meteoric rise to a multi-billion-dollar valuation and a major Chinese hacking incident. Escape From the North Pole, Paul Laudiero and Ben Baker A young girl partners up with an elf, a Russian explorer, and a reindeer to rescue Santa Claus from a band of evil elves and save the North Pole. Fubar, Brent Hyman An inept CIA psychologist is embedded on a globe-trotting mission with the agency’s most valuable operative who suffers from an extreme case of multiple personality disorder.
Infinite, Ian Shorr Based on the The Reincarnationist Papers, written by D. Eric Maikranz. The hallucinations of a schizophrenic are revealed to be memories from past lives where he obtained talents that he still has to this day. Kate, Umair Aleem When a veteran hit woman is mysteriously poisoned on her last assignment in Tokyo, she has 24 hours to track down her killer before she dies. Key of Genius, Daniel Persitz and Devon Kliger The true story of Derek Paravicini, a blind, severely autistic boy who needed an incredible teacher to help realize his world-class musical ability.
Kill Shelter, Eric Beu and Greg Martin A darkly comic crime thriller concerning three groups of people dealing with blackmail gone wrong. Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know, Jade Bartlett Based on the book trilogy Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know by Chloe J.
An underdog identical twin accidentally kills her too-perfect sister only to discover murder suits her as she becomes compulsively embroiled in the life of a mafia assassin. Valedictorian, Cosmo Carlson An obsessive type-A student vows to secure the valedictorian title before school ends by any means necessary, even murder. Come As You Are, Zach Baylin An idealistic young woman’s life begins to unravel when her job in social media exposes her to the darkest corners of humanity, sending her on a violent mission to take down not just the web’s most vicious content, but its creators as well.
Hughes, Andrew Rothschild The story of writer-director John Hughes, whose emotionally honest high-school movies helped to define American culture in the 1980’s but who, at the very height of his success, abruptly abandoned filmmaking for reasons that have never been fully explained. The Mother, Misha Green A female assassin comes out of hiding to protect the preteen daughter she gave up years before.
One Thousand Paper Cranes, Ben Bolea The incredible true story of Sadako Sasaki, a young girl living in Hiroshima when the atomic bomb was dropped. Years later when she gets leukemia, she hears about the legend that if someone folds one-thousand paper cranes, a wish will be granted.
At the same time, aspiring writer Eleanor Coerr learns of Sadako’s story and becomes determined to bring her message of hope and peace to the world. Ruthless, John Swetnam After she is diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, a former assassin must carry out one last assignment in order to ensure her daughter’s future. V.I.N., Chiara Towne As Alex Haley struggles to write the autobiography of Malcolm X, his editor at Playboy assigns him a new interview: George Lincoln Rockwell, head of the American Nazi Party.
The Expansion Project, Leo Sardarian A rookie Marine gets stranded on a hostile planet during humanity’s space colonization with nothing but her exo-suit that’s running out of fusion power. Newsflash, Ben Jacoby On November 22, 1963, Walter Cronkite puts everything on the line to get the story right as a president is killed, a frightened nation weeps, and television comes of age. Trapline, Brett Treacy, Dan Woodward A captive boy’s lifestyle is upended when his abductor asks for his help kidnapping a second child. When in Doubt, Seduce, Allie Hagan The true story of the early relationship between Elaine May and Mike Nichols. The Man From Tomorrow, Jordan Barel The true story of visionary entrepreneur Elon Musk, who after being ousted from PayPal, guides SpaceX through it turbulent early years while simultaneously building Tesla. Moxie, Heather Quinn To combat crime in near-future Los Angeles, the FBI creates supercops based on specific genetic sequences. To their shock, their best candidate is a vulgar stripper named Moxie.
Brosio, Mattson Tomlin Inspired by the work of artist John Brosio. When a man begins to lose all of the people close to him in a series of increasingly absurd natural disasters, he must find out why his world has been turned upside down. Power, Mattson Tomlin When a young drug dealer is kidnapped by a man hell-bent on finding his missing daughter, they must team up to get to the bottom of the mystery of the intense street drug known as Power.
Jellyfish Summer, Sarah Jane Inwards A young black girl’s family in 1960s Mississippi decides to harbor two human-looking refugees who have mysteriously fallen from the sky. The Great Nothing, Cesar Vitale A grieving 13-year-old girl hires a terminally ill, acerbic philosophy professor to prevent flunking the seventh grade. What begins as a homework assignment blossoms into an unlikely friendship and a new appreciation for life that neither will forget. Sleep Well Tonight, Freddie Skov Behind the walls of a maximum security prison, a naive teenage inmate and a rookie correctional officer are forced into a drug-smuggling operation, while a looming conflict between rival gang members threatens to boil over.
Breaking News in Yuba County, Amanda Idoko After catching her husband in bed with a hooker, which causes him to die of a heart attack, Sue Bottom buries the body and takes advantage of the local celebrity status that comes from having a missing husband. When Lightning Strikes, Anna Klassen The true story of 25-year-old Joanne Rowling as she weathers first loves, unexpected pregnancies, lost jobs, and depression on her journey to create Harry Potter. The Black List 2007-2016 Also, take a look at screenplays from past winners:. Read Screenplays From Some of Our Other Highlighted Screenwriters. Some of the BEST Online Screenwriting Courses & Books available: Courses. Michael Hauge’s & Chris Vogler’s.
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