2012 Top Unproduced Screenplays (Part 1: A to C)
Top scripts written by new and emerging writers. The first 14 indexed A to C.
Welcome to 2012 Top Unproduced Screenplays (Part 1 of 7), curated from industry reader feedback and year-end lists. This page includes 14 titles, indexed from A to C for easy access.
Highlights on this page include A Country of Strangers, Black Box, and Clive. Use the table of contents to jump straight to a script block.
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Country of Strangers, A
Written by: Sean Armstrong
Votes: 43 (2nd overall in 2012)
Based on true events. Inspector Geoff Harper conducts a forty year search for the Beaumont Children, three siblings taken from an Australian beach in January of 1966.
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All-Nighter (n.k.a. Run All Night)
Written by: Brad Ingelsby
Votes: 11
An aging hitman goes up against his boss over a single night in order to protect his family.
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Almanac (n.k.a. Project Almanac)
Written by: Jason Pagan & Andrew Stark
Votes: 6
A group of high school kids discover how to time travel, but fail to recognize the potential consequences.
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Americatown
Written by: Ben Poole
Votes: 20
In a China-dominated near future, a former LAPD officer attempts to save his family from destitution in Los Angeles by working for a crime lord in the American ghetto within a thriving Hong Kong.
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The Ballad of Pablo Escobar (n.k.a. The Devil's Angel)
Written by: Matt Aldrich
Votes: 16
A telling of the last years of Pablo Escobar’s life, the war he waged on the Colombian government, and his fight to recapture his son’s love and respect.
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Black Box
Written by: David Guggenheim
Votes: 13
When Air Force One crashes, a journalist discovers a cover up after gaining access to the plane’s black box data and must unravel the mystery.
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Bleeding Kansas
Written by: Russell Sommer & Dan Frey
Votes: 7
A runaway slave and a sheriff must journey to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Gubernatorial candidate against the backdrop of Kansas’ induction into statehood and whether or not it would be a slave or free state.
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Border Country
Written by: Jonathan W. Stokes
Votes: 8
A veteran goes to war against a crew of corrupt cops intent on controlling the US / Mexico border.
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Broken, The
Written by: John Glosser
Votes: 12
In 1967 Oklahoma, a war vet/farmer investigates the suspicious death of his estranged son in the next county. When he discovers his son’s brutal murder was a covered-up gay bashing, he goes on a one-man mission to take down the corrupt sheriff responsible.
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Cherries (n.k.a. Blockers)
Written by: Brian Kehoe & Jim Kehoe
Votes: 13
Three fathers learn of their teenage daughters’ pact to lose their virginity on prom night and band together to stop them.
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Clive
Written by: Natasha Pincus
Votes: 19
After an accident causes a successful CEO to lose both legs, he is forced to re-evaluate his life and identity.
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Comancheria (n.k.a. Hell or High Water)
Written by: Taylor Sheridan
Votes: 19
Two brothers, one an ex-con and the other a divorced father of two kids, face the foreclosure of their family’s West Texas farm. They team for a skillfully-calculated bank robbing spree that puts them on a collision course with two Texas Rangers determined to take them down.
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Come and Find Me
Written by: Zack Whedon
Votes: 6
When his girlfriend goes missing, David must track down her whereabouts after he realizes she’s not who she was pretending to be.
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Conversion
Written by: Marissa Jo Cerar
Votes: 9
A preacher’s wife, grieving from the loss of her teenage son and struggling to hold her family together, forms an unlikely friendship with a young street hustler who helps her understand her lost son and survive alcoholic depression.
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