2012 Top Unproduced Screenplays (Part 2: D to E)
Top scripts written by new and emerging writers. The next 11 indexed D to E.
Welcome to 2012 Top Unproduced Screenplays (Part 2 of 7), curated from industry reader feedback and year-end lists. This page includes 11 titles, indexed from D to E for easy access.
Highlights on this page include The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, Draft Day, and Ex Boyfriend of the Bride. Use the table of contents to jump straight to a script block.
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Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, The
Written by: Mark Hogan
Votes: 16
During WWII, a a fifteen year old German boy is sent to America to spy for the Fatherland by joining a politically-connected family as an English war orphan. Tension mounts when the boy gets the chance to assassinate President Roosevelt.
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Devils at Play
Written by: James Dilapo
Votes: 28 (10th overall in 2012)
In the Soviet Union in 1937, a worker of the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs finds a list of traitors, which he thinks is going to be his way out.
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Disciple Program, The
Written by: Tyler Marceca
Votes: 12
A man begins an investigation into his wife’s mysterious death, only to find that it goes much deeper than he imagined.
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Don't Make Me Go
Written by: Vera Herbert
Votes: 6
When a single father to a teenage daughter learns that he has a fatal brain tumor, he takes her on a road trip to find the mother who abandoned her years before and to try to teach her everything she might need over the rest of her life.
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Doppelgangers
Written by: Evan Mirzai & Shea Mirzai
Votes: 8
Buttoned-down 20-something Eric isn’t ready to marry his longtime girlfriend Abby. His only way out is through slacker Sam, his identical twin brother, who offers to pose as Eric to do the dumping. But the plan becomes a disaster when Sam realizes Abby is actually really cool--and falls head over heels for her.
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Draft Day
Written by: Rajiv Joseph & Scott Rothman
Votes: 63 (1st overall in 2012)
On the day of the NFL Draft, Bills General Manager Sonny Weaver has the opportunity to save football in Buffalo when he trades for the number one pick. He must quickly decide what he’s willing to sacrifice in pursuit of perfection as the lines between his personal and professional life become blurred.
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Eel, The
Written by: Roberto Bentivegna
Votes: 6
An escaped convict is ensnared in a plot by a corrupt Sheriff to kidnap the young heiress to an oil fortune, complicating his quest for freedom.
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El Tigre
Written by: Aaron Buchsbaum & Teddy Riley
Votes: 15
A family vacation goes horribly awry when the father is mistaken for the most ruthless drug lord in Mexico, El Tigre.
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Equalizer, The
Written by: Richard Wenk
Votes: 8
A veteran covert operative seeking redemption for his dark deeds quits a CIA-like agency and devotes himself to helping others where injustice has been done.
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Ex Boyfriend of the Bride
Written by: Matt Hausfater
Votes: 7
After discovering one of their high school sweethearts is getting married, two best friends head to the wedding in order to stop the bride from going through with it.
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Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
Written by: Michael Werwie
Votes: 31 (7th overall in 2012)
Based on a true (and ultimately surprising) story, a promising young law student fights an oppressive legal system and growing public scrutiny when his routine traffic stop snowballs into shocking criminal charges, imprisonment, daring escapes, and ultimately acting as his own attorney in a nationally televised murder trial.
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