The 7th edition of "The Black List" features 73 unproduced screenplays. Here are the next 12, indexed alphabetically, from G to H.
Let's continue our look at The List. Read and download all of the "Black List: 2011" screenplays and scripts.
For Your Consideration, we have another 12 scripts listed and indexed alphabetically for quick access. Including Ian Fried's "Gaslight," Alex Ankeles' and Morgan Jurgenson's "Hyperdrive", and everything in between.
If you're a young writer looking for study guides, you've found the right place. These "Black List: 2011" scripts were chosen by more than 300 film-industry executives.
What is the "Black List" and how does a script get chosen? To find out how it all works, scroll down a little bit.
Unsure about exactly what is the "Black List"? Read on.
Consider the name ironic. This isn't a list of scripts written by those who are unwelcome in the industry. Rather, "The Black List" is a compilation of "most liked" unproduced screenplays from a certain year. Screenwriters, young and old, repped or voiceless, submit their works for consideration.
Annually, since 2005, film industry executives read hundreds of screenplays and choose which ones are their favorite. Referred to as a "mention" (or, a "vote"), favored scripts with the most mentions are featured on, in this regard, the "Black List: 2011." And, you may have already noticed that many screenplays featured on The List have since been produced.
Past picks include: "Frost/Nixon," and "The Wrestler."
Gaslight
Written by: Ian Fried
Mentions: 8
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.
Good Kids (2016)
Written by: Chris McCoy
Mentions: 12
Four overachieving high school students in Cape Cod reinvent themselves during the summer after graduation. IMDb
Grace of Monaco (2014)
Written by: Arash Amel
Mentions: 24
Grace Kelly, age 33 and having given up her acting career to focus on being a full time princess, uses her political maneuvering behind the scenes to save Monaco while French Leader Charles de Gaulle and Monaco’s Prince Rainier III are at odds over the principality’s standing as a tax haven. IMDb
Grim Night
Written by: Allen BeyBrandon Bestenheider
Mentions: 11
A family has to defend themselves from the Grims, strange creatures who attack Earth and kill thousands one night every year.
The Gun Eaters
Written by: Alex ParaskevasJordan Goldberg
Mentions: 10
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.
Guys Night
Written by: Christopher Baldi
Mentions: 6
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.
He's Fuckin' Perfect (n.k.a. The Social Life)
Written by: Lauryn Kahn
Mentions: 24
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.
Hidden (2015)
Written by: Matt DufferRoss Duffer
Mentions: 11
An elevated horror-thriller about a family hiding in a bomb shelter after escaping a mysterious outbreak. IMDb
The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017)
Written by: Tom O’Connor
Mentions: 7
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. IMDb
Home By Christmas: Bob Hope in Korea, 1950
Written by: Ben Schwartz
Mentions: 8
Young Larry Gelbart goes on tour with his idol Bob Hope in the middle of the Korean War and learns the true price of patriotism.
How to Disappear Completely
Written by: Ed Solomon
Mentions: 17
A child prodigy tries to take control of his life away from his demanding parents.
Hyperdrive
Written by: Alex AnkelesMorgan Jurgenson
Mentions: 9
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.
