Read the "Black List: 2017" Screenplays
The 13th edition of the "Black List" features 76 unproduced screenplays. Here are the next 8, indexed alphabetically, from D to F.
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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: "Enders Game," and "Get Smart."
Don't Be Evil
Written by: Gabriel Diani | Etta Devine | Evan Bates
Mentions: 10
Adapted from In the Plex by Steven Levy and I’m Feeling Lucky by Douglas Edwards. Google’s Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt struggle with their corporate motto, "Don’t Be Evil," in the face of their meteoric rise to a multi-billion dollar valuation and a major Chinese hacking incident.
Escape
Written by: JD Payne | Patrick McKay
Mentions: 9
When a wrongly accused man is shipped to an Australian penal colony for five years, he quickly realizes his only chance of seeing his family again is to escape the prison with a gang of colors and survive the deadly terrain that awaits on the outside.
Escape from the North Pole
Written by: Paul Laudiero | Ben Baker
Mentions: 10
A young girl partners up with an elf, a Russian explorer and a reindeer to rescue Santa Claus from a band of evil elves and save the North Pole.
The Expansion Project
Written by: Leo Sardarian
Mentions: 15 (12th overall in 2017)
A rookie Marine gets stranded on a hostile planet during humanity’s space colonization with nothing but her exo-suit that’s running out of fusion power.
The Fifth Nixon
Written by: Sharon Hoffman
Mentions: 6
Watergate as experienced through the eyes of President Richard Nixon’s personal secretary Rose Mary Woods.
Fubar
Written by: Brent Hyman
Mentions: 10
An inept CIA psychologist is embedded on a globe-trotting mission with the agency’s most valuable operative who suffers from an extreme case of multiple personality disorder.