The 16th edition of the "Black List" features 80 unproduced screenplays. Here are the next 8, indexed alphabetically, from H to L.
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For Your Consideration, we have the next 8 scripts cataloged and indexed alphabetically for quick access. Including Greg Navarro's "Handsome Stranger," the Alex Russell thriller "Lurker," and everything in between.
If you're a young writer looking for study guides, you've found the right place. These "Black List: 2020" scripts were chosen by 375 film-industry executives.
What is "The Black List" you ask? To find out how it all works, scroll down a little bit.
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" (basically, a vote), favored scripts with the most mentions are featured on, in this regard, the "Black List: 2020." And, you may have already noticed that a great number of screenplays featured on The List have since been produced.
Past picks include "Source Code," and "Horrible Bosses."
Handsome Stranger
Written by: Greg Navarro
Mentions: 7
Based on the incredible true story of serial killer Paul John Knowles and the week he spent with British journalist Sandy Fawkes in the midst of a murderous killing spree.
Headhunter
Written by: Sophie Dawson
Mentions: 29 (1st overall in 2020)
A high-functioning cannibal selects his victims based on their Instagram popularity, but finds his habits shaken by a man who wants to be eaten.
Here Come the Bandits
Written by: Ethan Dawes
Mentions: 8
Mickey Bradley, a wildly talented minor league baseball player in his early twenties who returns home to Los Angeles after an injury and coaches a little league team full of misfits who remind him why he fell in love with baseball in the first place. And there's a sweet romance in there too.
High Society
Written by: Noga Pnueli
Mentions: 9
A depressed, progressive woman stuck in a conservative small Texas town starts micro-dosing the entire town with marijuana to make them all get along.
Horsegirl
Written by: Lauren Meyering
Mentions: 9
Living under the full time care of her cancer-stricken mother, a twenty-six-year-old, socially awkward, horse-obsessed woman attempts to prove her independence by winning a hobbyhorse competition.
I.S.S.
Written by: Nick Shafir
Mentions: 7
At any given moment in time there are roughly six astronauts living on the International Space Station (ISS). The station itself is divided into two segments one half Russian, one half American. When a world war event occurs on Earth, America and Russia find themselves on opposing sides. As such, both nations secretly contact their astronauts aboard the ISS and give them instructions to take control of the station by any means necessary. The six astronauts must each secretly choose between their friendships with each other and their allegiance to their country.
If You Were the Last (2023)
Written by: Angela Bourassa
Mentions: 25 (4th overall in 2020)
Two astronauts who think they’ve been lost in space forever fall in love, becoming content with their isolated lives, only to suddenly have to return to Earth. IMDb
Lurker
Written by: Alex Russell
Mentions: 11
An obsessed fan maneuvers his way into the inner circle of his hip hop idol and will stop at nothing to stay in.
