Read the "Black List: 2014" Screenplays
The 10th edition of "The Black List" features 70 unproduced screenplays. Here are the next 9, indexed alphabetically, from N to R.
We continue our look at the 10th edition of the "Black List: 2014" scripts.
And, For Your Consideration, we have the next 9 scripts that made the List, indexed alphabetically, from N through R. Including Ablakhad's "North of Reno", to John Patton Ford's "Rothchild", 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.
Looking For Something Else?
If you can't find what you're looking for here, send us an email. We take requests, too!
If you're looking for a specific movie or TV show/series, please let us know. 8FLiX has more than 10,000 scripts and screenplays. Not all are currently listed here. Eventually, they'll all be available to download (but certainly not in your lifetime). To avoid waiting decades for 8FLiX to add the script that you're looking for, send us an email. You still may have to wait, but it'll be days rather than generations.
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: "47 Ronin", and Oscar-winner "The Social Network."
North of Reno
Written by: Banipal Ablakhad | Benhur Ablakhad
Mentions: 17
A down and out prison guard attempts to murder a recently released inmate and steal a half million dollars in hidden heist money.
One Fell Swoop
Written by: Greg Scharpf
Mentions: 14
A self-centered divorce attorney’s life takes an unexpected turn when he is guilted into spending time with the family of a one night stand who dies in a freak accident.
Plus One
Written by: April Prosser
Mentions: 9
Just out of a long term relationship and realizing that all her friends have married, Rachel discovers that her only remaining wing-woman is Summer, a loud and oversharing wildcard.
Possession: A Love Story
Written by: Jack Stanley
Mentions: 10
In a seemingly perfect marriage, a man discovers that he is actually wedded to a demon inhabiting another woman’s body.
Professor Pasghetti
Written by: Jeff Feuerstein
Mentions: 7
A famous children’s author, with an affinity for drugs and hookers, finds himself on a journey of self-discovery with a dead stripper and her eight year old son.
Road to Oz
Written by: Josh Golden
Mentions: 11
The early days of brilliant, whimsical author L. Frank Baum, who gave the world The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Rockingham
Written by: Adam Morrison
Mentions: 38 (2nd overall in 2014)
A look into the mania of the OJ Simpson trial, through the eyes of Simpson’s sports agent Mike Gilbert and Los Angeles Police Department Detective Mark Fuhrman.
Rothchild
Written by: John Patton Ford
Mentions: 32 (5th overall in 2014)
A young, well-educated loner kills the members of his mother’s estranged family one-by-one in hopes that he will inherit the family’s vast fortune.