Check out 78 (mostly) unproduced screenplays from 2012. Here are the final 9, indexed alphabetically, from T to Z.
Let's continue our journey through the best of 2012. If you've been here before, you may have already noticed that we made a few changes.
These screenplays are considered as some of the best-written during 2012 according to hundreds of industry professionals who've read them, and voted for them. We have 77 of the 78 chosen scripts and, in the interest of speed and your 8FLiX experience, we've grouped the downloads into smaller chunks.
For Your Consideration, we have the final 9 screenplays, indexed alphabetically, from T through Z. Including Taylor Materne and Jake Rubin's "Times Square," Patrick Aison's "Wunderkind," and everything in between.
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A word about voting... and other important stuff about the "best of" 2012 Unproduced Screenplays.
Some of the scripts listed here may have since been optioned and produced. However, at the time of "voting" they were not.
Also, like all of the screenplays on this site, copyrights remain with the writer(s). 8FLiX does not claim ownership of any screenplay, nor were we involved in voting for, or choosing what makes them the "best of" a particular year.
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Times Square
Written by: Taylor MaterneJake Rubin
Votes: 8
Set amidst the transformation of Times Square from New York’s seediest neighborhood to the commercialized Disneyland it is today, when a secret from his past is unearthed, a young man’s loyalties are divided between his neighborhood boss who raised him and the grizzled ex-cop who swore to protect him.
Titans of Park Row
Written by: Mitch Akselrad
Votes: 6
Young William Randolph Hearst goes to war against an aging Joseph Pulitzer as each tries to monopolize coverage of a mysterious homicide capturing New York’s imagination, birthing the modern concept of sensationalist media coverage.
Transcendence (2014)
Written by: Jack Paglen
Votes: 7
An epic love story set in a time where a dying scientist is able to upload his consciousness into the internet and, facing its global implications, must fight against the forces who are actively working against the existence of a singularity. IMDb
Untitled Blake McCormick Cop Comedy
Written by: Blake McCormick
Votes: 10
Following a costume party where they dressed as cops, two best friends are mistaken for actual police officers and find themselves on the run, after being forced to bring a dangerous criminal back to the station.
Whalemen
Written by: Tucker Parsons
Votes: 19
The leader of a fourteenth century Scottish whaling village must seek out and do battle with a whale many times larger than any he has ever seen in order to ransom back his son from the occupying English.
Whiplash (2014)
Written by: Damien Chazelle
Votes: 19
Under the director of a prestigious but borderline abusive instructor, a young college student begins to lose his humanity in his quest to become the core drummer of the top jazz orchestra in the country. IMDb
Who Framed Tommy Callahan
Written by: Harry Kellerman
Votes: 11
An elementary school student searches for the truth behind the candy bar ring conspiracy that got his brother expelled.
The Winter Kills
Written by: Ben Carney
Votes: 11
A disgraced cop pursues the serial killer who murdered his partner ten years ago, has resurfaced, and is killing again.
Wunderkind
Written by: Patrick Aison
Votes: 33 (6th overall in 2012)
A Mossad employed father and his CIA agent son team up to hunt an escaped Nazi.
