Read the "Black List: 2017" Screenplays
The 13th edition of the "Black List" features 76 unproduced screenplays. Here are the first 11, indexed alphabetically, from A to C.
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What is "Black List" you ask? To find out how it all works, scroll down a little bit.
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Discover more about the "Black List: 2017" screenplays
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 particular 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: 2017".
Some screenplays get optioned by studios and become movies. Past picks include: "Bad Words," and "Pinocchio."
American Tabloid
Written by: Adam Morrison
Mentions: 6
The true story of Generoso Pope, Jr., who with the help of the New York mob turned a small, local paper into the phenomenon that is The National Enquirer, laying the foundation for tabloid journalism as we know it today.
Arc of Justice
Written by: Max Borenstein | Rodney Barnes
Mentions: 10
Based on the book Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age written by Kevin Boyle. Chronicles the landmark civil rights trial of Dr. Ossian Sweet after he was charged with the murder of a white man.
Ballerina
Written by: Shay Hatten
Mentions: 9
After her family is murdered, an assassin seeks revenge on the killers.
The Boxer
Written by: Justine Juel Gillmer
Mentions: 8
A young Polish man escapes from a concentration camp in which he was forced by SS agents to box other Jews, travels to America to begin a successful career as a professional boxer, and reunites with the woman he lost.
Breaking News in Yuba County (2021)
Written by: Amanda Idoko
Mentions: 19 (7th overall in 2017)
Brosio
Written by: Mattson Tomlin
Mentions: 11
Inspired by the work of artist John Brosio. When a man begins to lose all of the people close to him in a series of increasingly absurd natural disasters, he must find out why his world has been turned upside down.
Cancer Inc (f.k.a. Conundrum)
Written by: Marc Macaluso
Mentions: 6
Before Roe v. Wade in 1960s Chicago, a pregnant woman becomes a member of an underground group which provides abortions in a safe environment.
Come As You Are
Written by: Zach Baylin
Mentions: 13
An idealistic young woman’s life begins to unravel when her job in social media exposes her to the darkest corners of humanity, sending her on a violent mission to take down not just the web’s most vicious content, but its creators as well.