This year features 81 screenplays. Here are the next 10, indexed alphabetically, from E to H.
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Read and download some of the best "2015: Top Unproduced Screenplays" of the year, according to hundreds of industry professionals who've read and rated them. We have 81 selected scripts, and to help your browsing experience we've spread the content over several pages.
For Your Consideration, here are the next 10 scripts cataloged and indexed alphabetically, from E through H. Including David Chirchirillo's "Eli," Matthew Orton's "Hunting Eichmann," and everything in between.
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Some of the scripts listed here may have since been optioned and produced. However, at the time of "voting" they were not.
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Eli (2019)
Written by: David Chirchirillo
Votes: 21 (11th overall in 2015)
Having moved into a "clean house" to treat his auto-immune disorder, eleven-year-old Eli begins to believe that the house is haunted. Unable to leave, Eli soon realizes that the house, and the doctor who runs it, are more sinister than they appear. IMDb
Final Journey
Written by: Michael Lee Barlin
Votes: 9
A mistreated elderly Inuit (Eskimo) woman is forced out of her village to survive alone on the savage arctic tundra.
The Fisherman
Written by: Will Dunn
Votes: 18
A fisherman sails out of Martha’s Vineyard in search of the shark that killed his fellow sailors while they were stranded in the water for four days after their ship was attacked by a Japanese submarine.
Francis and the Godfather
Written by: Andrew Farotte
Votes: 6
Facing financial ruin, auteur filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola is forced to direct the adaptation of Mario Puzo’s pulp novel The Godfather, pitting him against legendary mega-producer Robert Evans in this comedy about art versus commerce.
Free Agent
Written by: Sam Regnier
Votes: 6
A female NBA executive for the Golden State Warriors pursues the biggest free agent of her career while managing a messy divorce and a complicated relationship with a younger colleague and his teenage sister.
Great Falls
Written by: Andy Friedhof
Votes: 11
After negligently killing a hunter with their patrol car, an alcoholic Sheriff’s Deputy and her superior officer must decide what to do with the only witness to their crime - a death row inmate only days from execution.
Green River Killer
Written by: Michael Sheen
Votes: 6
Based on the Eisner Award winning graphic novel of the same name. The story follows the detectives in the Green River Killer case as they attempt to unravel not only the facts behind the gruesome series of murders that plagued the Pacific North West for over a decade, but also the psychosis of the killer they now find themselves face to face with.
Hammerspace
Written by: Mike Van Waes
Votes: 16
A terminally-ill teenager looking for answers about his missing father finds a key that unlocks an opening to an alternate animated dimension, and a new friend helps him repair his broken family.
Homegrown
Written by: Jacques Edeline
Votes: 7
A teenage boy, raised in total seclusion and indoctrinated by his enigmatic father, is sent to live with a foster family and enrolled in a public high school when his father is incarcerated, threatening their relationship and causing the boy to question everything he’s learned.
Hunting Eichmann (n.k.a. Operation Finale) (2018)
Written by: Matthew Orton
Votes: 10
The thrilling capture of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann by a secret Mossad team in South America. IMDb
