The 16th edition of the "Black List" features 80 unproduced screenplays. Here are the final 8, indexed from U to Z.
You can read and download the "Black List: 2020" screenplays and scripts right here, right now.
They're cataloged and indexed alphabetically for quick access. For Your Consideration, the final batch of 8 scripts. Including Perry Janes' "The U.S.P.S.," Brett Melnick's comedy, "Yom Kippur," 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 industry executives.
What is the "Black List" you ask? It may not be exactly what you'd expect. Discover more, below.
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" (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 "47 Ronin," and "The Impossible."
The U.S.P.S.
Written by: Perry Janes
Mentions: 11
Following in his murdered mother’s footsteps, Michael Griffiths enlists in the United States Postal Service... only to discover a mail route full of surprises and a job that means maybe, just maybe, saving the world.
Uncle Wick
Written by: Gabe Delahaye
Mentions: 8
An action comedy wherein Benji Stone, a lovable but deeply unpopular sixteen year old, is pulled into an international assassination plot by his uncle, a retired undercover assassin charged with babysitting Benji for the weekend.
Viceland
Written by: Chris Parizo
Mentions: 9
The true story of how Vice magazine grew from a free magazine in Montreal into a multi billion dollar media empire, making two of its founders multi-millionaires while the third founder was kicked out and went on to modernize the white supremacist movement by creating the Proud Boys.
Video Nasty
Written by: Chris Thomas Devlin
Mentions: 18
Three teenagers who rent a cursed VHS tape are pulled into an 80s slasher movie that threatens to trap them forever.
War Face
Written by: Mitchell Lafortune
Mentions: 7
A female U.S. Army Special Agent is sent to a remote, all-male outpost in Afghanistan to investigate accusations of war crimes. But when a series of mysterious events jeopardize her mission and the unit’s sanity, she must find the courage to survive something far more sinister.
What If? (n.k.a. Anything's Possible) (2022)
Written by: Ximena García Lecuona
Mentions: 8
An unassertive seventeen year old turns his high school on its head when he asks out his crush, a transgender classmate. IMDb
The Women of Route 40
Written by: Erin Kathleen
Mentions: 7
A struggling single mother must confront dangerous forces - and sins of her past - when her world collides with that of a serial killer. Inspired by the true story of Delaware’s only serial murderer, the Route 40 killer.
Yom Kippur
Written by: Brett Melnick
Mentions: 7
After getting high on the night of Yom Kippur, three distant cousins wake up with muddled minds and empty stomachs as they find themselves in the middle of a kidnapping and a major drug ring.
