This year features 72 screenplays. Here are the first 10, indexed alphabetically, from A to B.
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Read and download some of the best unproduced screenplays from 2013, according to hundreds of Hollywood professionals who've read and rated them. And we've divided the material into smaller groups for quick and easy access.
For Your Consideration, we have the first 10 scripts cataloged and indexed alphabetically, from A through B. Including Stephany Folsom's "1969: A Space Odyssey of How Kubrick Learned to Stop Worrying and Land on the Moon," Justin Kremer's "Bury the Lead," and everything in between.
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A word about voting... and other important stuff about the "best of" 2013 Unproduced Screenplays.
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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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.
American Sniper (2014)
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. IMDb
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.
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
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.
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.
The Boy and His Tiger
Written by: Dan Dollar
Votes: 11
The true story of Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin & Hobbes.
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.
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.
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.
