Read the "Black List: 2012" Screenplays
The 8th edition of "The Black List" features 78 screenplays. Here are the next 10, indexed alphabetically, from F to G.
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Read and download all of the "Black List: 2012" screenplays. We have 77 of the 78 selected scripts from the 8th edition. We've grouped the downloads into smaller chunks to help speed up your browsing experience.
Four Your Consideration, we have the next 10 scripts listed and indexed alphabetically, from F through G. From Brad Desch's "Fathers & Daughters", to Jason Micallef's "Ground Control to Major Tom", and everything in between.
If you're a young writer looking for study guides, you've found the right place. These "Black List: 2012" scripts were chosen by more than 290 film-industry executives as some of the best unproduced scripts this year.
What is "The Black List" you ask? To find out how it all works, scroll down a little bit.
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Discover more about the "Black List: 2012" scripts
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 evaluation and possible consideration.
Annually, since 2005, film industry executives read hundreds of screenplays and choose which ones are their favorite. Referred to as a "mention", favored scripts with the most mentions are featured on, in this regard, the "Black List: 2012".
Some screenplays get optioned by studios and become movies. Past picks include: "The Adam Project", and "Draft Day."
The Final Broadcast
Written by: Chris Hutton | Eddie O’Keefe
Mentions: 14
A man takes a job as a radio broadcaster in a small town, only to discover that it is embedded with a radical group planning mass destruction in conjunction with an upcoming lunar eclipse.
From New York to Florida
Written by: Austin Reynolds
Mentions: 13
An undisciplined boy is sent to Florida for the summer with his grandparents, and the drive south changes him forever.
Fuck Marry Kill
Written by: Neel Shah | Alex Blagg
Mentions: 6
Three best friends return for their high school reunion intent on righting all the wrongs done to them in high school … by either fucking, marrying, or killing their tormentors.
George
Written by: Jeff Shakoor
Mentions: 18
When an acerbic alcoholic finds himself penniless and alone he has no choice but to crash his family’s holiday. Years of alienating them makes for a stiff challenge, but eventually he subtly helps them heal.
Glimmer
Written by: Carter Blanchard
Mentions: 29 (8th overall in 2012)
When three friends go missing on a camping trip in a forest rumored to be haunted, the two left behind discover clues that lead them to a safe deposit box containing video tapes... showing exactly what happened to their friends.
Goodbye, Felix Chester
Written by: Max Taxe
Mentions: 9
After finding out he has a month left to live, high school junior Felix Chester focuses all of his time and energy on one goal: losing his virginity to his dream girl.
Ground Control to Major Tom
Written by: Jason Micallef
Mentions: 8
After nine years, a NASA communications expert reconnects with the astronaut she believed to be dead and helps rescue him from space.