This year features 73 unproduced screenplays. Here are the final 9, indexed alphabetically, from V to Z.
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For Your Consideration, we have the remaining 9 scripts cataloged and indexed alphabetically for quick access. Including Andrew Ferguson's "The Villain," Stuart C. Paul's "Yasuke," and everything in between.
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A word about voting... and other important stuff about the "best of" 2021 Unproduced Scripts.
Some of the scripts listed here may have since been optioned and produced. However, at the time of "voting" they were not.
Also, like all of the screenplays on this site, copyrights remain with the writer(s). 8FLiX does not claim ownership of any screenplay, nor were we involved in voting for, or choosing what makes them the "best of" a particular year.
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The Villain
Written by: Andrew Ferguson
Votes: 21 (5th overall in 2021)
The completely outrageous and completely true story of "pharma bro" Martin Shkreli — from his meteoric rise as wunderkind hedge fund manager and pharmaceutical executive to his devastating fall involving crime, corruption and the Wu-Tang Clan — which exposed the rotten core of the American healthcare system.
Wait List
Written by: Carly J. Hallman
Votes: 19 (7th overall in 2021)
A troubled millennial from small-town Texas will do anything to get into her top-choice law school, including murder.
The Way You Remember Me
Written by: Geoffrey Roth
Votes: 7
Following the death of her vivacious, entrepreneurial, thirtysomething son Ben, Laurie learns that he had frozen some of his sperm before his passing. As she embarks on an unconventional journey in search of someone who may bear Ben’s child, Laurie forges an unexpected friendship with a woman, who, in turn, starts to fall for the memory of him.
Ways to Hide in Winter
Written by: Jenny Halper
Votes: 7
A woman in rural Pennsylvania falls in love with a stranger from Uzbekistan, then finds out he may be responsible for war crimes. Based on Sarah St. Vincent’s acclaimed debut novel.
weird
Written by: Augustus Schiff
Votes: 14
An autistic kid tries to do normal college things — making friends, figuring out if girls like him, getting over his mom’s death — while seeing life in his own "musical" way.
Wheels Come Off
Written by: Kryzz Gautier
Votes: 11
In the year 2065, a fiery teenager with a wild imagination, her paraplegic mom, and their clueless robot struggle to navigate the post-apocalypse; but when the mother’s wheelchair breaks, the trio must venture out into the dangerous "outside" for a chance to survive.
Whittier
Written by: Filipe CoutinhoBen Mehlman
Votes: 15
While looking into a client’s murder, a Los Angeles social worker stumbles on a political conspiracy in the wake of the 1987 Whittier earthquake.
Worst. Dinner. Ever.
Written by: Jack Waz
Votes: 16
An estranged father and son have to survive terrorists, explosions, and, most terrifying of all, dinner with each other.
Yasuke (aka: Untitled Yasuke Project)
Written by: Stuart C. Paul
Votes: 11
The true story of the first and only African Samurai in feudal Japan who rose from being a slave for the Jesuits to fighting as a Samurai in the unification of Japan.
