Read the "Black List: 2017" Screenplays
The 13th edition of the "Black List" features 76 unproduced screenplays. Here are the next 9, indexed alphabetically, from I to K.
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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: "Superbad," and "The Prestige."
Innocent Monsters
Written by: Elaina Perpelitt
Mentions: 9
A writer struggling to crack her second novel starts to lose her sense of reality as the book bleeds into her life...and her life bleeds back.
Jellyfish Summer
Written by: Sarah Jane Inwards
Mentions: 12 (20th overall in 2017)
A young black girl’s family in 1960s Mississippi decides to harbor two human-looking refugees who have mysteriously fallen from the sky.
Jihotties
Written by: Molly Prather
Mentions: 7
In an effort to fund their start-up, two women catfish ISIS and get more than they bargained for when the CIA recruits them as spies.
Keeper of the Diary
Written by: Samuel Franco | Evan Kilgore
Mentions: 32 (4th overall in 2017)
Chronicles Otto Frank’s journey, with the help of a junior editor at Doubleday Press, to find a publisher for the diary his daughter Anne wrote during the Holocaust.
Key of Genius
Written by: Daniel Persitz | Devon Kliger
Mentions: 10
The story of Derek Paravicini, a blind, severely autistic boy who needed an incredible teacher to help realize his world-class musical ability.
Kill Shelter
Written by: Eric Beu | Greg Martin
Mentions: 10
A darkly comic crime thriller concerning three groups of people dealing with blackmail gone wrong.
The Kingbreaker
Written by: Andrew Bozalis | Derek Mether
Mentions: 9
A CIA operative experienced in taking down kings and installing their replacements is brought in to take down a dictator he helped install a few years prior.