This year features 76 unproduced screenplays. Here are the next 10, indexed alphabetically, from G to H.
Read and download some of the best "2017: Top Unproduced Screenplays" of the year. They're cataloged and indexed alphabetically for quick access. This is part 3 of 8.
For Your Consideration, we have the next 10 scripts listed and indexed alphabetically for quick access. Including Ross Evans' "Gadabout," Andrew Rothschild's "Hughes," and everything in between.
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A word about voting... and other important stuff about the "best of" 2017 Unproduced Scripts.
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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Gadabout
Written by: Ross Evans
Votes: 9
In 1951, a manufacturing company stirs up curiosity when they publish a user’s manual to a time machine called Gadabout TM-1050.
George
Written by: Jeremy Michael Cohen
Votes: 8
The true story of the Reys, the husband and wife team who fell in love, created Curious George, and escaped the horrors of WWII in Europe together.
The Great Nothing
Written by: Cesar Vitale
Votes: 17 (9th overall in 2017)
A grieving thirteen-year-old girl hires a terminally ill, acerbic philosophy professor to prevent flunking the seventh grade. What begins as a homework assignment blossoms into an unlikely friendship and a new appreciation for life that neither will forget.
Green Rush
Written by: Matt Tente
Votes: 6
A paroled ex-con agrees to help his daughter steal medical marijuana tax dollars from City Hall.
Greenland (2020)
Written by: Chris Sparling
Votes: 7
A disgraced father is determined to get his family to what, in four days, will be the only safe place on earth. IMDb
The Grown Up
Written by: Natalie Krinsky
Votes: 6
Based on the short story "The Grownup" by Gillian Flynn. A con woman who pretends to read auras is hired by a wealthy woman to banish an evil spirit from her house, but it is soon clear that the fake exorcist is in over her head.
Hack
Written by: Mike Schneider
Votes: 8
Based on actual reports, a horrifying look inside the Democratic National Committee hack and the Russian manipulation of the 2016 election.
Health and Wellness
Written by: Joe Epstein
Votes: 6
A sociopath obsessed with self-improvement claws her way to the top of the fitness world, leaving a trail of broken bodies in her wake.
Heart of the Beast
Written by: Cameron Alexander
Votes: 9
A former Navy SEAL and his retired combat dog attempt to return to civilization after a catastrophic accident deep in the Alaskan wilderness.
Hughes
Written by: Andrew Rothschild
Votes: 13
The story of writer/director John Hughes, whose emotionally honest high school movies helped to define American culture in the 1980s–but who, at the very height of his success, abruptly abandoned filmmaking for reasons that have never been fully explained.
