Read the "Black List: 2014" Screenplays
The 10th edition of "The Black List" features 70 screenplays. Here are the next 11, indexed alphabetically, from C to E.
And to help you skim through the collection quicker, we've sorted the scripts into smaller batches.
Read and download all of the "Black List: 2014" screenplays. We have 70 of the 70 selected scripts from the 10th edition.
So, Four Your Consideration, we have the next group of 11 scripts listed and indexed alphabetically, from C through E. From Randall Green's "Cartoon Girl", Abraham Higginbotham's "Everybody Wants Everything", and everything in between.
If you're a young writer looking for study guides, you've found the right place. These "Black List: 2014" 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: 2014" 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: 2014".
Some screenplays get optioned by studios and become movies. Past picks include: "Video Nasty", and "The Menu."
Cartoon Girl
Written by: Randall Green
Mentions: 11
When a young boy finds out that the cartoon character he’s in love with is based on a real girl, he drags his single father on a road trip to track her down.
Cascade
Written by: Kieran Fitzgerald
Mentions: 25 (7th overall in 2014)
Based on the documentary style film 'The Day Britain Stopped' directed by Gabriel Range, an oil tanker collides with an Iranian patrol boat in the Strait of Hormuz, triggering a chain of tragic disastrous events.
Catherine the Great
Written by: Kristina Lauren Anderson
Mentions: 51 (1st overall in 2014)
Sophia Augusta takes control of her life, her marriage, and her kingdom becoming Russia’s most celebrated and beloved monarch: Catherine the Great.
Celeritas
Written by: Kimberly Barrante
Mentions: 9
When a missing astronaut crash lands forty years after he launched having not aged a day, his elderly twin brother helps him escape the NASA scientists hunting him. As the government closes in, neither brother is who they claim to be.
The Defection
Written by: Ken Nolan
Mentions: 15
After the Edward Snowden affair, an intelligence contractor defects to North Korea, taking a mysterious bag with him, and the CIA hires an expert trained during the Cold War to help with the case.
Dodge
Written by: Scott Wascha
Mentions: 17
A genre bending action comedy about a pill popping thug who begins to develop superpowers.
Echo
Written by: Chris MacBride
Mentions: 18 (11th overall in 2014)
A CIA drone coordinator battles his own psychological health while trying to decipher whether his wife has been replaced.
The Eden Project
Written by: Christina Hodson
Mentions: 7
When a race of genetically modified humans living secretly among us declare war on Man, the fate of the world is in the hands of a rogue 'Synthetic' named Eve and a young girl who is about to discover she’s not all human.
Erin's Voice
Written by: Greg Sullivan
Mentions: 7
A deaf computer genius’ world is thrown into turmoil when he meets a troubled coffee shop waitress whose voice turns out to be the only thing he can miraculously hear.
Everybody Wants Everything
Written by: Abraham Higginbotham
Mentions: 7
As his life reaches its neurosis-inducing midpoint, a married man asks himself an eternal question with no real answer -- 'Am I living the life I want to be living, or do I need to start over before its too late?' Torn between two lives, he’s forced to do the one thing he doesn’t want to do — make a choice.