This year features 70 screenplays. Here are the first 13, indexed alphabetically, from A to B.
Welcome back! While you were away, we sorted a few things out. These scripts are considered as some of the best "2014: Top unproduced Screenplays" of the year, according to hundreds of industry professionals who've read and rated them.
For Your Consideration, we have the first 13 scripts cataloged and indexed alphabetically, from A through B, for quick access. Including Krysty Wilson-Cairns' "Aether," Brandon and Philip Murphy's "The Bringing," and everything in between.
If you're a young writer looking for study guides, you've found the right place. Let's go through some of the great work being done by new and emerging screenwriters.
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A word about voting... and other important stuff about the "best of" 2014 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.
If you're the writer and wish to update the version, change your contact information, or to remove your screenplay from the database, send an email to Nick Runyeard for immediate assistance. I can also be reach through social media:
Aether
Written by: Krysty Wilson-Cairns
Votes: 24 (8th overall in 2014)
In near future London, a revolutionary technology has been invented that can record sounds hours after they were made. Detective Harry Orwell, inventor of this technology, is part of a pilot program where investigators record and analyze past sound waves and finds himself the prime suspect while investigating a string of brutal murders.
The Babysitter (2017)
Written by: Brian Duffield
Votes: 34 (4th overall in 2014)
A lonely twelve year old boy in love with his babysitter discovers some hard truths about life, love, and murder. IMDb
A Beautiful Game
Written by: Zander Lehmann
Votes: 6
A high school soccer star’s personal life becomes complicated leading up to his championship game as he develops a relationship with his soccer coach.
Beauty Pageant
Written by: Evan MirziShea Mirzai
Votes: 8
After they unwittingly get their daughters disqualified from the child beauty circuit, two warring stage-mothers are forced to go head to head in an adult beauty pageant.
Beef
Written by: Jeff Lock
Votes: 11
The manager of a fast food chain in Muncie, Indiana gets in over his head with some bookies.
Berliner
Written by: F. Scott Frazier
Votes: 14
As the Berlin Wall is being constructed at the height of the Cold War, a veteran CIA agent searches for a Soviet mole who has already killed several fellow agents, including a young agent he’s mentored.
Big Time Adolescence (2019)
Written by: Jason Orley
Votes: 10
A sixteen year old virgin with a growth deficiency slowly gets corrupted by his hero, an aimless college dropout. IMDb
Bird Box (2018)
Written by: Eric Heisserer
Votes: 13
A woman tries to lead her children to safety after the world is invaded by monsters who turn you insane upon sight. IMDb
Bismarck
Written by: Jared Cowie
Votes: 8
As Britain struggles through the darkest hours of World War II, a naval officer, raw from the loss of his ship during the evacuation of Dunkirk, is thrust into the thick of the hunt for the Nazi super-battleship, Bismarck. Based on a true story.
Black Winter
Written by: Jonathan StewartJake Crane
Votes: 11
On the eve of a US-Soviet disarmament treaty, a British scientist and a NATO medical investigator discover a secret Soviet plot to unleash a terrifying biological weapon.
Blink
Written by: Hernany Perla
Votes: 7
Years after being fully paralyzed during an infamous bank robbery, a man is taken hostage for the secrets in his head. His only form of communicating with the outside world - and outsmarting his captors – is his ability to blink.
Boston Strangler
Written by: Chuck MacLean
Votes: 7
In the 1960s, a determined detective puts his life and career on the line to solve the case of the Boston Strangler.
The Bringing
Written by: Brandon MurphyPhilip Murphy
Votes: 8
A private investigator investigates a mysterious murder at a downtown Los Angeles hotel and uncovers its dark supernatural history. Based on true events.
