2012 Top Unproduced Screenplays (Part 5: L to O)
Top scripts written by new and emerging writers. The next 11 indexed L to O.
Welcome to 2012 Top Unproduced Screenplays (Part 5 of 7), curated from industry reader feedback and year-end lists. This page includes 11 titles, indexed from L to O for easy access.
Highlights on this page include The Lighthouse, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, and The Outskirts. Use the table of contents to jump straight to a script block.
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Lighthouse, The
Written by: Eric Kirsten
Votes: 6
William Van Alen’s building of the Chrysler building and the competition to be the first to complete the world’s tallest building.
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Man of Tomorrow
Written by: Jeremy Slater
Votes: 16
In an alternate 1940s reality, the US Government makes a deal with an indestructible gangster to kill Hitler in exchange for the city of Chicago, which he will build into his own utopia. Unfortunately his model city never comes to fruition and both he and his Bureau liaison get much of the slack for destroying one of America’s greatest cities and now the government wants him dead.
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McCarthy
Written by: Justin Kremer
Votes: 11
It is 1951. Junior Senator Joe McCarthy feels lost. He’s anonymous, just another suit on Capitol Hill. He craves attention and celebrity. He’s desperate to be noticed, to be adored. Inspired by the response of the American public to the House of Un-American Activities Committee, McCarthy decides that communism will be his defining issue. What follows is nearly unthinkable -- national fame, a shocking conspiracy, a sitting President afraid to oppose him, and a torrid journey of self destruction and paranoia.
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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Written by: Jesse Andrews
Votes: 29
Based on Andrews’s eponymous novel, a quirky high school student who enjoys making films sparks a friendship with a classmate dying of leukemia.
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Midnight at Noon
Written by: Nathaniel Halpern
Votes: 7
On the run after robbing a bank during the great depression, two brothers find themselves trapped in the harsh region known as the Dust Bowl where a ruthless killer hunts them down.
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Monsoon
Written by: Matt Ackley
Votes: 6
A dangerous love affair between a photojournalist and a black market smuggler set against the June 2001 massacre of the Royal Family in Nepal.
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Murder City
Written by: Will Simmons
Votes: 16
An ensemble crime story set in Detroit about an ex-con who goes back for one last heist in order to settle his family’s debt.
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One That Got Away, The
Written by: April Prosser
Votes: 17
A twenty eight year old woman is about to get engaged to her great boyfriend, when the ex she hasn’t gotten over moves back into town. All of a sudden she isn’t sure if her boyfriend is really the one, and so she spends time decorating her ex’s new condo, trying to figure it all out.
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Our Name Is Adam (n.k.a. The Adam Project)
Written by: TS Nolwin & Mark Levin & Jennifer Flackett
Votes: 10
An astronaut travels back in time to enlist the help of his younger self.
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Out of State
Written by: Eric Pearson
Votes: 6
While driving his regular interstate bus route, an emotionally fractured ex-convict finds himself acting as a father figure to a forsaken young boy from the Philadelphia ghetto, even though he knows that the boy is smuggling drugs.
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Outskirts, The (n.k.a. The Outcasts)
Written by: Dominique Ferrari & Suzanne Wrubel
Votes: 7
After falling victim to a humiliating prank by the high school Queen Bee, best friends and world-class geeks, Mindy and Jodi, decide to get their revenge by uniting the outcasts of the school against her and her circle of friends.
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