Read the "Black List: 2013" Screenplays
The 9th edition of "The Black List" features 72 unproduced screenplays. Here are another 5, indexed alphabetically, from Q to R.
We continue our look at the 9th edition of the "Black List: 2013" scripts. And, the improve your browsing experience, we've grouped the material into smaller groups.
So, For Your Consideration, we have another 5 scripts that made the List, indexed alphabetically, from Q through R. Including Stephanie Shannon's "Queen of Hearts", Hernany Perla's "Revelations", and everything in between.
If you're a young writer looking for study guides, you've found the right place. These "Black List: 2013" scripts were chosen by more than 250 film-industry executives.
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: 2013" 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 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: 2013".
Some screenplays get optioned by studios and become movies. Past picks include: "Only Living Boy in New York", and "Charlie Wilson's War."
Queen of Hearts
Written by: Stephanie Shannon
Mentions: 15
Oxford instructor Charles Dodgson (aka Louis Carroll) tells stories to the dean’s daughter Alice, and her sisters, while falling in love with the dean’s wife.
RANDLE Is Benign
Written by: Damien Ober
Mentions: 9
Follows a woman in the 80’s who works at an IBM like company and is at the forefront of artificial intelligence research. When her project (named RANDLE) hits a major milestone indicating that she may have actually achieved AI, it is unexpectedly hijacked by the agenda of the company’s mysterious CEO. As she dives deeper into the corporate agenda, she learns that there may be a connection between her project and the 1981 assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan.
The Remains
Written by: Meaghan Oppenheimer
Mentions: 6
Three former childhood friends with a complicated history get back together to spread the ashes of their friend who recently died.
Revelations (a.k.a. Lord of Light)
Written by: Hernany Perla
Mentions: 8
A prison psychiatrist meets a death row inmate on the verge of his execution who claims to be the only thing stopping the end of the world. As she begins to investigate his predictions, she finds them to be eerily accurate, and that she may be a central figure in the events to come.