Read the "Black List: 2016" Screenplays
The 12th edition of "The Black List" features 73 unproduced screenplays. Here are the next 12, indexed alphabetically, from G to I.
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Discover more about the "Black List: 2016" 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: 2016".
Some screenplays get optioned by studios and become movies. Past picks include: "The Changeling," and "Beast."
The Gun Show
Written by: Lucas Carter
Mentions: 7
A famous top cop wakes up twenty years after a shootout and is reinstated to solve the case that killed his old partner. Only problem: he’s a bull in a China shop, and 2016 is a very different time than the 1990s world he’s used to. To teach him the ropes, he’s paired with his old partner’s son, a risk averse traffic cop.
Hala (2019)
Written by: Minhal Baig
Mentions: 19 (12th overall in 2016)
When a teenaged Muslim-American girl, struggling with identity issues already, discovers her father is having an affair with a colleague, she responds by seducing her English teacher, ultimately leading to her parents’ divorce.
Hart You
Written by: Zoe McCarthy
Mentions: 12
Estranged siblings pose as a married couple in the Amalfi Coast to win a cash prize.
The Housewife
Written by: Alyssa Hill
Mentions: 7
Based on a true story set in 1960s New York, a journalist finds and investigates a woman whom he believes is married to a Nazi in hiding. Their relationship results in the first ever extradition of an American citizen for war crimes.
Hummingbird
Written by: John Tyler Mclain
Mentions: 7
A black-ops assassin’s latest mark forces her to question the truth of her identity and ultimately confront the unsettling fact that she’s more than a hired gun, she’s an entirely new breed of weapon.
The Hunchback
Written by: Topher Rhys-Lawrence
Mentions: 8
Defying an isolationist, fear-mongering government, a gypsy revolutionary, a mutinous soldier, and a deaf hunchback become the champions of human tolerance and the symbols for a peaceful future in a dystopian revision of Victor Hugo’s novel.
In the Blink of an Eye
Written by: Colby Day
Mentions: 25 (6th overall in 2016)
Explores the entire history of the universe and our species through three interwoven storylines that question the very nature of life, love, mortality, where we’ve been, and where we’re going; the past, present, and future of the human race.