This year features 73 unproduced screenplays. Here are the next 11, indexed alphabetically, from C to F.
Welcome to 8FLiX! And, boy-oh-boy, do we have some fantastic reads for you today. Let's continue our look through the best unproduced screenplays from 2016.
For Your Consideration, the next batch of 11 screenplays cataloged and indexed alphabetically, from C through F, for quick access. Including Harry Tarre's "Captain Infinity," Trey Selman's "Fruitcake," 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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Captain Infinity
Written by: Harry Tarre
Votes: 6
When his comic book obsessed five-year-old brother is diagnosed with cancer, Oscar Ruiz attempts to shield him from the truth by convincing him that his “treatment” is all part of a top secret program to become a superhero.
Carnada
Written by: Katharine Werner
Votes: 6
Based on true events. In post-Cuban Missile Crisis Miami, an ambitious young CIA agent receives a career making opportunity in becoming the case officer for a charismatic Cuban ambassador offering to help eliminate Fidel Castro. As their relationship grows, however, he begins to question the mission and the true motives of his superiors.
Contingency Protocol
Written by: Mark Townend
Votes: 8
When futuristic technology renders the Federal Witness Protection Program obsolete, the U.S. Government begins using Time Travel to hide high-profile witnesses in the Past. When a security breach occurs, a U.S. Marshal and her witness struggle to find their way back to the Present Day while evading assassins.
Dark Money
Written by: Matt Fruchtman
Votes: 21 (9th overall in 2016)
The true story of a young stock trader who goes to work for billionaire tycoon Steve Cohen and gets involved in the biggest insider trading scandal in history.
A Deconstruction of Reality
Written by: Mattson Tomlin
Votes: 8
Tasked with finding a game changing take for the sixth Jason Bourne movie, Tom Milton goes deep down the rabbit hole of cracking the story. With the guidance (and abuse) of a professor from his past and Bourne himself, Tom begins workshopping scenes that begin to bleed into real life in unexpected ways.
Donziger
Written by: Jay CarsonMatt Bai
Votes: 6
After twenty years, Steven Danziger wins a $19 billion verdict against Chevron for poisoning rural lands in Ecuador. Chevron responds by hiring heavy hitter Randy Mastro determined to have the entire verdict thrown out.
Escape From Sarajevo
Written by: Vanya Asher
Votes: 6
Based on the author’s father’s escape from Sarajevo in 1992, the harrowing and heartbreaking tale of one man’s mission to get back to his family.
Fairy Godmother
Written by: Chiara Atik
Votes: 15
When sought after Fairy Godmother Faye is hired by a mind-bogglingly gorgeous teenage client, Kenzie, to find her true love with the hottest prince in the land, Faye finds herself facing an unfamiliar challenge when the prince starts falling for her instead.
The Fall
Written by: Pete Bridges
Votes: 7
Finding themselves in the middle of an alien invasion, a newly divorced couple must survive a dangerous real-time journey on foot from downtown Atlanta to the suburbs, where their young children are home alone.
Free Guy (2021)
Written by: Matt Lieberman
Votes: 15
A bank teller stuck in his routine discovers he’s a background character in a realistic, open world action-adventure video game and he is the only one capable of saving the city. IMDb
Fruitcake
Written by: Trey Selman
Votes: 8
The remarkable true story of an unremarkable church-going accountant who stole $17 million in the biggest fruitcake heist of all time.
