This year features 70 screenplays. Here are the next 11, indexed alphabetically, from C to E.
And to help you skim through the collection quicker, we've sorted the scripts into smaller batches. Read and download all of the scripts which 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, the next group of 11 scripts are catalogued and indexed alphabetically, from C through E. Including Randall Green's "Cartoon Girl," Abraham Higginbotham's "Everybody Wants Everything," and the whole (kit and) caboodle in between.
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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:
Cartoon Girl
Written by: Randall Green
Votes: 11
When a young boy finds out that the cartoon character he’s in love with is based on a real girl, he drags his single father on a road trip to track her down.
Cascade
Written by: Kieran Fitzgerald
Votes: 25 (7th overall in 2014)
Based on the documentary style film 'The Day Britain Stopped' directed by Gabriel Range, an oil tanker collides with an Iranian patrol boat in the Strait of Hormuz, triggering a chain of tragic disastrous events.
Catherine the Great
Written by: Kristina Lauren Anderson
Votes: 51 (1st overall in 2014)
Sophia Augusta takes control of her life, her marriage, and her kingdom becoming Russia’s most celebrated and beloved monarch: Catherine the Great.
Celeritas
Written by: Kimberly Barrante
Votes: 9
When a missing astronaut crash lands forty years after he launched having not aged a day, his elderly twin brother helps him escape the NASA scientists hunting him. As the government closes in, neither brother is who they claim to be.
Coffee & Kareem (2020)
Written by: Shane McCarthy
Votes: 6
An overweight, foul-mouthed nine year old reluctantly teams with the straight edge cop sleeping with his mom to take down Detroit’s most ruthless drug lord. IMDb
The Defection
Written by: Ken Nolan
Votes: 15
After the Edward Snowden affair, an intelligence contractor defects to North Korea, taking a mysterious bag with him, and the CIA hires an expert trained during the Cold War to help with the case.
Dodge
Written by: Scott Wascha
Votes: 17
A genre bending action comedy about a pill popping thug who begins to develop superpowers.
Echo
Written by: Chris MacBride
Votes: 18 (11th overall in 2014)
A CIA drone coordinator battles his own psychological health while trying to decipher whether his wife has been replaced.
The Eden Project
Written by: Christina Hodson
Votes: 7
When a race of genetically modified humans living secretly among us declare war on Man, the fate of the world is in the hands of a rogue 'Synthetic' named Eve and a young girl who is about to discover she’s not all human.
Erin's Voice
Written by: Greg Sullivan
Votes: 7
A deaf computer genius’ world is thrown into turmoil when he meets a troubled coffee shop waitress whose voice turns out to be the only thing he can miraculously hear.
Everybody Wants Everything
Written by: Abraham Higginbotham
Votes: 7
As his life reaches its neurosis-inducing midpoint, a married man asks himself an eternal question with no real answer -- 'Am I living the life I want to be living, or do I need to start over before its too late?' Torn between two lives, he’s forced to do the one thing he doesn’t want to do — make a choice.
