This year features 76 unproduced screenplays. Here are 9 more, indexed from S to U.
These scripts are considered as some of the best "2017: Top Unproduced Screenplays" of the year, according to hundreds of industry professionals who've read and rated them. They're cataloged and indexed alphabetically for quick access. This is part 7 of 8.
For Your Consideration, the next batch of 9 scripts. Including Travis Betz and Kevin Hamedani's "The Saviors," Brett Treacy and Dan Woodward's "Trapline," 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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The Saviors
Written by: Travis BetzKevin Hamedani
Votes: 8
A seemingly progressive suburban husband and wife renting their garage through AirBnB become suspicious of their Muslim guests. As they investigate their visitors, they unwittingly trigger events that will forever change the course of human history.
Skyward
Written by: Joe Ballarini
Votes: 6
The true story of two families who attempt to escape over the Berlin Wall using a hot air balloon in 1979.
Sleep Well Tonight
Written by: Frederik With-Seidelin Skov
Votes: 18 (8th overall in 2017)
Behind the walls of a maximum security prison, a naïve teenage inmate and a rookie correctional officer are forced into a drug-smuggling operation, while a looming conflict between rival gang members threatens to boil over.
The Sleepover (2020)
Written by: Sarah Rothschild
Votes: 6
When bad guys break into their home and kidnap their parents, siblings Kevin and Clancy are forced to confront the fact that there may be way more to their stay-at-home mom than meets the eye. IMDb
Social Justice Warrior
Written by: Emma FletcherBrett Weiner
Votes: 7
When a liberal, white, college sophomore who knows exactly how to fix society accuses her equally liberal professor of hate speech, it throws the campus and both their lives into chaos as they wage war over the right way to stop discrimination.
Strongman
Written by: Nicholas Jacobson-LarsonDalton Leeb
Votes: 8
Based on the confusing, sometimes offensive, borderline-insane memories of David Prowse, the irascible Englishman behind Darth Vader’s mask.
The Thing About Jellyfish
Written by: Molly Smith Metzler
Votes: 7
After her best friend drowns, a seventh-grade girl is convinced the true cause of the tragedy was a rare jellyfish sting. Retreating into a silent world of imagination, she crafts a plan to prove her theory.
This is Jane
Written by: Daniel Loflin
Votes: 9
Based on the book The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service by Laura Kaplan. An ordinary group of women provide 11,000 safe, illegal abortions in Chicago from 1968 through 1973.
Trapline
Written by: Brett TreacyDan Woodward
Votes: 16 (10th overall in 2017)
A captive boy’s lifestyle is upended when his abductor asks for his help kidnapping a second child.
