This year features 74 unproduced screenplays. Here are the final 10, indexed alphabetically, from U to Z.
These scripts are considered as some of the best "2022: Top Unproduced Screenplays" of the year, according to hundreds of industry professionals who've read and rated them.
And, For Your Consideration, we have the remaining 10 scripts listed and indexed alphabetically for quick access. Including Will Simmons' "Undo," and Mary Beth Barone's and Erin Woods' "You're My Best Friend," and everything in between.
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A word about voting... and other important stuff about the "best of" 2022 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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Undo
Written by: Will Simmons
Votes: 8
A down-on-his-luck former getaway driver comes into possession of a mysterious watch that allows the user to go back in time by one minute. As he starts to uncover its uses and gets pulled into one last heist by his former crew, a dangerous group after the technology gets on his tail and will stop at nothing to get the watch back.
Vitus
Written by: Julian Wayser
Votes: 10
In 1518, a Dancing Plague overtook the city of Strasbourg in the Holy Roman Empire. Hundreds of people danced themselves to death over the course of a summer and no one knows why. Encircling medieval medicine, the uncanny, and the origins of mass hysteria, Vitus is a wildly visual exploration of a crucial (but little-known) moment in European history.
Viva Mexico
Written by: Miguel Flatow
Votes: 15
When a washed-up superhero gets betrayed by a Mexican government, he must lead a populist social movement to fight the Narcos, topple the government, and free the people.
Weary Ride the Belmonts
Written by: Josh Corbin
Votes: 8
After staging his death many years ago, an aging gunslinger is forced to reunite with his outlaw daughter during the dying days of the west.
What We Become
Written by: Amy Jo Johnson
Votes: 10
A successful author/wife/mother plans a trip to a bucolic island to crack her next book and finds herself in a surprising situation.
White Mountains
Written by: Becky LeighMario Kyprianou
Votes: 17
After an interracial couple in the 1960s has a horrifying encounter with a UFO, they set out to discover if it actually happened, or if it is just a case of folie à deux–madness for two. Based on the true story of Barney and Betty Hill.
Who Made the Potato Salad
Written by: Kyle Drew
Votes: 10
A family’s Christmas dinner goes awry when a xenomorphic demon starts to duplicate and imitate each member of the family. What does it want? To show them their greatest fears.
Wild
Written by: Michael Burgner
Votes: 13
A young woman is determined to protect a thief on the run when he holes up in her small town, even if it means revealing a darker, more violent secret of her own.
Wildfire
Written by: Chaya Doswell
Votes: 7
After accidentally starting a wildfire, 7-year-old Lu, mute and from an abusive home, slyly tricks Merribelle, a hardworking trans woman, into kidnapping her - sparking a beautifully unexpected bond with a devastating expiration date.
You're My Best Friend
Written by: Mary Beth BaroneErin Woods
Votes: 6
Lily is mature, thoughtful, artistic, and... awkward. Rosie is sweet, caring, and popular with dreams of being a star. When Lily breaks down in tears on her 15th birthday because she has no friends, her Aunt Beth (a hot shot at a big movie studio) devises a plan. Aunt Beth agrees to jump start Rosie’s acting career as long as she can convincingly play the role of a lifetime: Lily’s best friend. Aunt Beth has the scheme and Rosie has the talent. All they have to do is get away with it.
