This year features 72 screenplays. Here are another 5, indexed alphabetically, from Q to R.
We continue our look at some of the best unproduced screenplays from 2013. And, to improve your browsing experience, we've grouped the material into smaller blocks.
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.
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A word about voting... and other important stuff about the "best of" 2013 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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Queen of Hearts
Written by: Stephanie Shannon
Votes: 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
Votes: 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
Votes: 6
Three former childhood friends with a complicated history get back together to spread the ashes of their friend who recently died.
Reminiscence (2021)
Written by: Lisa Joy Nolan
Votes: 20 (10th overall in 2013)
An "archeologist" whose technology allows you to relive your past finds himself abusing his own science to find the missing love of his life. IMDb
Revelations (a.k.a. Lord of Light)
Written by: Hernany Perla
Votes: 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.
