Read the "Black List: 2017" Screenplays
The 13th edition of the "Black List" features 76 unproduced screenplays. Here are the final 7, indexed from V to Z.
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They're listed and indexed alphabetically for quick access. For Your Consideration, the final batch of 7 scripts. From Chiara Towne's "V.I.N.", to Michael Moskowitz's, "Wyler", and everything in between.
If you're a young writer looking for study guides, you've found the right place. These "Black List: 2017" scripts were chosen by industry executives as their favorite among unproduced screenplays from the past year.
What is the "Black List" you ask? It may not be exactly what you'd expect. Discover more, below.
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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 scripts include "Kate," and "King Richard."
V.I.N.
Written by: Chiara Towne
Mentions: 14
As Alex Haley struggles to write the autobiography of Malcolm X, his editor at Playboy assigns him a new interview: George Lincoln Rockwell, head of the American Nazi Party.
Valedictorian
Written by: Cosmo Carlson
Mentions: 12
An obsessive type-A student vows to secure the valedictorian title before school ends by any means necessary, even murder.
When in Doubt, Seduce
Written by: Allie Hagan
Mentions: 16 (11th overall in 2017)
The true story of the early relationship between Elaine May and Mike Nichols.
When Lightning Strikes
Written by: Anna Klassen
Mentions: 20 (6th overall in 2017)
The story of 25-year-old Joanne Rowling as she weathers first loves, unexpected pregnancies, lost jobs, and depression on her journey to create Harry Potter.
Written by: Imran Zaidi
Mentions: 22 (5th overall in 2017)
In a world where your life can be saved, uploaded to a computer, and restarted in the case of your untimely demise, a husband returns from the dead, suspecting his wife may have been involved in his death.
The White Devils
Written by: Leon Hendrix III
Mentions: 6
Cassius raises his sons, Malcolm and Mandela, isolated and alone in the woods. They have never met another person in their entire lives. The boys have learned to survive and protect their fragile family at all cost. When they find a mysterious wounded white girl, June, alone and lost in their woods, prejudice, lies and love set them on a collision course with the real world that puts all their lives at risk.
Wyler
Written by: Michael Moskowitz
Mentions: 9
With Hitler laying waste to Europe and the United States refusing to answer the call to war, Jewish filmmaker William Wyler risks his career to make MRS. MINIVER, the most effective propaganda film of all time.