2020: Top Unproduced Screenplays | Part 2

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This year features 80 (mostly) unproduced screenplays. Here are the next 10, indexed alphabetically, from C to E.

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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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    Chang Can Dunk (2023)

    Written by: Jingyi Shao

    Votes: 28 (2nd overall in 2020)

    A young Asian-American teen and basketball fanatic who just wants to dunk and get the girl ends up learning much more about himself, his best friends, and his mother. IMDb

    Cosmic Sunday

    Written by: MacMillan Hedges

    Votes: 9

    A small percentage of the population is stuck in a time loop and have had to create a society that functions within the same day, repeated day in and day out. One man struggles to find himself for the first time in ages amidst a society clinging to a sense of normalcy.

    Crush On You

    Written by: Shea Mayo

    Votes: 10

    Summer on a secluded campus takes a dark turn for three college girls when a supernaturally sexy mystery man begins haunting their dreams.

    The Culling

    Written by: Stephen Herman

    Votes: 10

    A troubled priest confines himself to a remote cabin in the middle of the woods where he attempts to make a last stand against the demon that terrorized his family when he was a child.

    Dust (2024)

    Written by: Karrie Crouse

    Votes: 7

    A young mother in 1930s Oklahoma is convinced that her family is threatened and takes drastic steps to keep them safe. IMDb

    Earworm

    Written by: Austin Everett

    Votes: 9

    A former music therapist is recruited to use a mysterious machine to dive into the memories of a serial killer on death row.

    Emancipation (2023)

    Written by: Bill Collage

    Votes: 8

    Based on a true story, a runaway slave has to outwit bounty hunters and the perils of a Louisiana swamp to reach the Union army and his only chance at freedom. IMDb

    Emergency (2022)

    Written by: KD Davila

    Votes: 21 (8th overall in 2020)

    Ready for a night of partying, a group of Black and Latino college students must weigh the pros and cons of calling the police when faced with an emergency. IMDb

    Enemies Within

    Written by: Cat Vasko

    Votes: 14

    In the 1950’s, Joseph McCarthy and his right hand man Roy Cohn sit at the height of their influence, casting aside democratic norms unchecked - until the Army’s lowest-level lawyer, John G. Adams, stumbles upon the shocking truth behind their power grab, and makes it his mission to reveal this to the public.

    Excelsior!

    Written by: Alex Convery

    Votes: 9

    The true story of the meteoric rise (and subsequent fall) of Marvel Comics and the star-crossed creators behind the panel: Stan Lee & Jack Kirby.

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