2013 Top Unproduced Screenplays (Part 1: A to B)
The top scripts written by new and emerging writers. The first 10 indexed A to B.
Welcome to 2013 Top Unproduced Screenplays (Part 1 of 7), curated from industry reader feedback and year-end lists. This page includes 10 titles, indexed from A to B for quick access.
Highlights on this page include The Autopsy of Jane Doe, Broken Cove, and Bury the Lead. Use the table of contents to jump straight to a script block.
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1969: A Space Odyssey of How Kubrick Learned to Stop Worrying and Land on the Moon
Written by: Stephany Folsom
Votes: 13
With NASA's Apollo program in trouble and the Soviets threatening nuclear war, a female PR operative conspires with NASA’s Public Affairs Office to stage a fake moon landing in case Armstrong and Aldren fail, the goal being to generate public excitement that will aid the U.S. in winning the Cold War. But the op is faced with the biggest challenge of all: Filming the fake lunar landing with temperamental Stanley Kubrick.
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American Sniper
Written by: Jason Dean Hall
Votes: 8
Navy S.E.A.L. sniper Chris Kyle's pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield and turns him into a legend. Back home with his family after four tours of duty, however, Chris finds that it is the war he can't leave behind.
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Autopsy of Jane Doe, The
Written by: Richard Naing & Ian Goldberg
Votes: 13
A father / son mortician team try to uncover the cause of death on a Jane Doe. The more they uncover, the more mysterious and terrifying their world becomes.
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Beast
Written by: Zach Dean
Votes: 19
With the hope of starting over, a reformed criminal with an ultra-violent past returns home, but when he finds his own family leading his teenaged son down the same path of destruction, he will stop at nothing to save his child.
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Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, A
Written by: Alexis C. Jolly
Votes: 12
Set in 1950s Manhattan, Fred Rogers journeys from a naïve young man working for NBC to the host of the beloved children’s PBS show, Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood.
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Beauty Queen
Written by: Annie Neal
Votes: 6
An unhappily married woman and her best friend go on a road trip to Las Vegas to compete in the Miss Married America competition.
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Boy and His Tiger, The
Written by: Dan Dollar
Votes: 11
The true story of Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin & Hobbes.
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Broken Cove
Written by: Declan O'Dwyer
Votes: 14
After his brother is found brutally murdered, a man hellbent on revenge returns to his decrepit Irish fishing village home armed only with a mysterious list of names his brother left behind.
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Burn Site
Written by: Doug Simon
Votes: 15
After a young teenage girl is murdered, her stepfather falls back on his dark and violent past to find her killer.
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Bury the Lead
Written by: Justin Kremer
Votes: 6
A desperate, attention hungry journalist concocts a story that ironically proves to be true and finds himself engulfed in a dangerous underworld of murder and mayhem.
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