2018: Top Unproduced Screenplays | Part 7

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This year features 73 screenplays. Here are the final 8, indexed from U to Z.

These scripts are considered as some of the best "2018: 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. For Your Consideration, the final batch of 8 scripts. Including Justin Kremer's "The United States of America v. Bill Gates," Matt Whitaker's "Your Boy," and everything in between.

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A word about voting... and other important stuff about the "best of" 2018 Unproduced Screenplays.

Some of the scripts listed here may have since been optioned and produced. However, at the time of "voting" they were not.

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    The United States of America v. Bill Gates

    Written by: Justin Kremer

    Votes: 11

    An inexperienced and idealistic twentysomething finds himself at the center of the largest anti-trust suit in modern American history when his idol, billionaire behemoth Bill Gates, wages war against his young internet company.

    Untitled Coast Guard

    Written by: Alex Sohn

    Votes: 8

    An inexperienced Coast Guard Captain is put to the test after she unknowingly intercepts one of the world’s most dangerous drug lords. With a hurricane bearing down on them, the captain and her crew must defend the ship against a series of unrelenting attacks. Based on "Drug War On the High Seas: Onboard the Coast Guards Billion-Dollar Busts" by Hunter Atkins.

    Untitled Syria Project

    Written by: Stephanie Carrie

    Votes: 7

    A disillusioned and indoctrinated American teenage girl travels to Syria to help ISIS build their Caliphate and, what she has been led to believe, is a better world. Through her relationship with an everyday Syrian family, she will discover the true face of Islam and the courage to fight for what is right against insurmountable odds.

    Welcome to the Neighborhood

    Written by: Ross LazarSebastian Shepard

    Votes: 8

    When a new job transplants an upper-middle class family from San Francisco into an up-and-coming neighborhood outside of Portland, they don’t get the neighborly welcome they were expecting.

    Wendi

    Written by: Amy Wang

    Votes: 7

    When an ambitious girl from the slums of China manipulates her way into marriage with a media tycoon, she becomes one of the most powerful women in the Western world. This is the story of Wendi Deng, second wife of Rupert Murdoch.

    The Worst Guy of All Time (And the Girl Who Came to Kill Him)

    Written by: Michael Waldron

    Votes: 26 (8th overall in 2018)

    Barret is a social media influencer, the worst guy ever, and the eventual President of the United States. Dixie is a badass freedom fighter, sent back from 2076 to kill him before he takes over the world and ruins the future. They hate each other. Then they accidentally fall in love.

    Young Wild Free (2023)

    Written by: Tony RettenmaierJuel Taylor

    Votes: 8

    A teenager struggling to provide for his younger siblings in Compton finds his life turned upside down when he’s held at gunpoint by the girl of his dreams. IMDb

    Your Boy

    Written by: Matt Whitaker

    Votes: 8

    Home for the summer on Long Island, a shy black college student comes out to his oldest and closest friend. But after an internship in Manhattan leads him to an exhilarating gay social scene, the 21-year-old is caught between his newly confident lifestyle and the unpopular straight friend who once knew him best.

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