Read the "Black List: 2012" Screenplays
The 8th edition of "The Black List" features 78 screenplays. Here are the next 10, indexed alphabetically, from H to K.
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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. And, in the interest of speed and your 8FLiX experience, we've grouped the downloads into smaller chunks.
Four Your Consideration, we have the next 10 scripts listed and indexed alphabetically, from H through K. From Tom Shephard's "Hey, Stella!", to Will Staples's "King of Heists", 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: "State of Play", and "Seven Pounds."
Hey, Stella!
Written by: Tom Shephard
Mentions: 13
The story of how Marlon Brando won the role of Stanley Kowalski in Elia Kazan’s Broadway play A Streetcar Named Desire.
Hibernation
Written by: Geneva Robertson-Dworet | Will Frank
Mentions: 7
A wrongly convicted inmate volunteers for a hibernation experiment in exchange for one day of parole every five years, which he uses to prove his innocence and search for his missing daughter across an increasingly futuristic landscape.
Hold on to Me
Written by: Brad Ingelsby
Mentions: 6
Based on an article written by Hillel Levin and Jim Keene, a ruthless and money-hungry woman uses a hapless man as a pawn in her criminal schemes.
The Hooverville Dead
Written by: Brantley Aufill
Mentions: 7
Set in St. Louis in the 1920s, washed up baseball player Will Cosgrove is a private eye with his older brother Ross. When Ross goes missing, Will stumbles upon a deep secret that the disease taking over the town is not quite what it seems and a mob boss turned Governor will do anything to keep the town’s secret from being revealed.
If They Move... Kill 'Em
Written by: Kel Symons
Mentions: 21
After losing his luster and respect in Hollywood, famed director Sam Peckinpah hopes to direct his next great film with financial backing from Colombian drug lords and brings along a novice screenwriter to write the film in Colombia.
The Judge (2014)
Written by: Bill Dubuque
Mentions: 20
The Killing Spree
Written by: Derek Elliott | Jack Donaldson
Mentions: 7
Heartbroken after being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, a guy’s best friends devise the perfect plan for his recovery and teach him how to sleep with as many women as humanly possible.
King of Heists
Written by: Will Staples
Mentions: 6
Based on the book King of Heists: The Sensational Bank Robbery of 1878 That Shocked America, written by J. North Conway. An unassuming man in the elite New York society assembles a crew that pulls off the largest bank heist in American history in 1878.