This year features 81 screenplays. Here are the next 15, indexed alphabetically, from Q to S.
These scripts are considered as some of the best "2015: Top Unproduced Screenplays" of the year, according to hundreds of industry professionals who've read and rated them. And we've made it even easier to find what you're looking for!
For Your Consideration, we have the next batch of 15 screenplays, indexed alphabetically, from Q through S. Including Cat Vasko's "Queen of the Air," John Pollono and Scott Silver's "Stronger," and everything in between.
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A word about voting... and other important stuff about the "best of" 2015 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 the Air
Written by: Cat Vasko
Votes: 13
Based on the book "Queen of the Air" written by Dean N. Jensen. The story of famed trapeze artist Lillian Leitzel and her relationship with fellow trapeze artist Alfredo Codona, who were two of the most famous entertainers of the world during their time.
Reagan
Written by: Mike Rosolio
Votes: 25 (9th overall in 2015)
When Ronald Reagan falls into dementia at the start of his second term, an ambitious intern is tasked with convincing the commander-in-chief that he is an actor playing the president in a movie.
Resurface
Written by: Pete Bridges
Votes: 6
An underwater earthquake decimates a research crew working at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, leaving two survivors with limited resources to ascend 35,000 feet and reach the surface before their life support runs out.
The Rocket*
Written by: Jeffrey GelberRyan Belenzon
Votes: 37 (4th overall in 2015)
Roger "The Rocket" Clemens, one of the greatest pitchers of all time, has 4672 strikeouts, 354 wins and a record 7 Cy Young awards. This is the story of why he is not in the Hall of Fame.
Salem Village
Written by: Mark BianculliJeff Richard
Votes: 9
Fifteen years after the witch trials, the scars of Salem are reopened when young women begin showing up dead. Desperate for answers, the town elders turn to a man of science to uncover the truth behind its terrifying events plaguing their community.
Senior Year (2022)
Written by: Andrew KnauerArthur Pielli
Votes: 8
A cheerleader wakes up after a twenty year coma and returns to sit at the cool table and try to become prom queen, as a thirty seven year-old woman. IMDb
Septillion to One
Written by: Adam PerlmanGraham Sack
Votes: 20 (12th overall in 2015)
A former FBI agent working the fraud unit of the Texas State lottery falls in love with a woman he’s investigating after she mysteriously hits the jackpot three times.
Set It Up (2018)
Written by: Katie Silberman
Votes: 10
Two young assistants realize they can get more free time if they occupy their bosses’ time by setting them up on a date. IMDb
The Set Up
Written by: Kari Granlund
Votes: 12
Two co-dependent female best friends' friendship is put through the wringer after a blind date gone awry sends them on a dangerous, all-in-one-night adventure with a drug dealer.
The Shave
Written by: Thomas WhiteMiles Hubley
Votes: 17
A dirty cop, exonerated in the murder of a high school honor student, visits the boy’s father at his barbershop and, while receiving a straight razor shave, listens to him recount the story of his son’s life.
Song of Treblinka
Written by: Viorica Blan
Votes: 6
Based on a true story. A renowned Jewish conductor plots a revolt with fellow prisoners as he attracts the respect of his Nazi captors in Poland’s most notorious death camp.
A Speck in the Sea
Written by: Jeff Pope
Votes: 10
Based on the article "A Speck in the Sea" by Paul Tough. The true story of the rescue of lobster fisherman John Aldridge who fell into the ocean in the middle of the night on July 24th, forty miles off Montauk with no life vest and no way to signal where he was.
Spring Offensive
Written by: Matthew McInerney-Lacombe
Votes: 13
Dr. Liz Scott, a British epidemiologist with the World Health Organization, is tasked with containing an outbreak of Ebola in Afghanistan’s war torn Helmand province as the Taliban’s assault on allied forces threatens to turn the localized outbreak into a global catastrophe.
Star One
Written by: David Coggeshall
Votes: 12
Two CIA agents must overcome their opposing worldviews to evade the Soviet and Chinese armies during a dangerous mission to Tibet in 1950. The true story of the first CIA agent ever to die in the line of duty; the "first star" on the CIA Memorial Wall.
Stronger (2017)
Written by: John PollonoScott Silver
Votes: 40 (2nd overall in 2015)
The true story of Jeff Bauman, who lost his legs in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and became an integral part of helping the police locate the Tsarnaev brothers. IMDb
