Read the "Black List: 2012" Screenplays
The 8th edition of "The Black List" features 78 screenplays. Here are the next 11, indexed alphabetically, from L to O.
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Read and download (most) of the "Black List: 2012" screenplays. We have 77 of the 78 selected scripts from the 8th edition. If you've been here before, you may have already noticed that we made a few changes.
Four Your Consideration, we have the next batch of 11 scripts listed and indexed alphabetically, from L through O, for quick access. From Eric Kirsten's "The Lighthouse", to Dominique Ferrari's and Suzanne Wrubel's "The Outcasts", 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: "Selma", and "The Changeling."
The Lighthouse
Written by: Eric Kirsten
Mentions: 6
William Van Alen’s building of the Chrysler building and the competition to be the first to complete the world’s tallest building.
Man of Tomorrow
Written by: Jeremy Slater
Mentions: 16
In an alternate 1940s reality, the US Government makes a deal with an indestructible gangster to kill Hitler in exchange for the city of Chicago, which he will build into his own utopia. Unfortunately his model city never comes to fruition and both he and his Bureau liaison get much of the slack for destroying one of America’s greatest cities and now the government wants him dead.
McCarthy
Written by: Justin Kremer
Mentions: 11
It is 1951. Junior Senator Joe McCarthy feels lost. He’s anonymous, just another suit on Capitol Hill. He craves attention and celebrity. He’s desperate to be noticed, to be adored. Inspired by the response of the American public to the House of Un-American Activities Committee, McCarthy decides that communism will be his defining issue. What follows is nearly unthinkable -- national fame, a shocking conspiracy, a sitting President afraid to oppose him, and a torrid journey of self destruction and paranoia.
Midnight at Noon
Written by: Nathaniel Halpern
Mentions: 7
On the run after robbing a bank during the great depression, two brothers find themselves trapped in the harsh region known as the Dust Bowl where a ruthless killer hunts them down.
Monsoon
Written by: Matt Ackley
Mentions: 6
A dangerous love affair between a photojournalist and a black market smuggler set against the June 2001 massacre of the Royal Family in Nepal.
Murder City
Written by: Will Simmons
Mentions: 15
An ensemble crime story set in Detroit about an ex-con who goes back for one last heist in order to settle his family’s debt.
The One That Got Away
Written by: April Prosser
Mentions: 17
A twenty eight year old woman is about to get engaged to her great boyfriend, when the ex she hasn’t gotten over moves back into town. All of a sudden she isn’t sure if her boyfriend is really the one, and so she spends time decorating her ex’s new condo, trying to figure it all out.
Out of State
Written by: Eric Pearson
Mentions: 6
While driving his regular interstate bus route, an emotionally fractured ex-convict finds himself acting as a father figure to a forsaken young boy from the Philadelphia ghetto, even though he knows that the boy is smuggling drugs.
The Outskirts (n.k.a. The Outcasts) (2017)
Written by: Dominique Ferrari | Suzanne Wrubel
Mentions: 7