This year features 70 screenplays. Here are the next 10, indexed alphabetically, from F to J.
Welcome back to 8FLiX! We're going through some of the best "2014: Top unproduced Screenplays" of the year, according to hundreds of industry professionals who've read and rated them.
And we've made a few changes to our database. Notably, the speed at which one is able to browse. So, For Your Consideration, we have the next 10 scripts cataloged and indexed alphabetically, from F through J, for quick access. Including Max Hurwitz's "Forgive Me," Dave Callaham's "Jackpot," and everything 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.
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Forgive Me
Written by: Max Hurwitz
Votes: 6
How Mike Wallace helped to create 60 Minutes and how years later, he confronted and dealt with his own depression.
The Founder (2016)
Written by: Robert Siegel
Votes: 13
The origin story of McDonald’s and Raymond Albert 'Ray' Kroc. IMDb
A Garden at the End of the World
Written by: Gary Graham
Votes: 7
In a post-apocalyptic world, a recluse, trying to recreate trees to produce new life, takes in a young girl who is on the run from some bad men, including her father.
Gifted (2017)
Written by: Tom Flynn
Votes: 7
A thirty year old man attempts to continue raising his deceased sister’s seven year old daughter, a kid-genius, while battling his own mother for custody. IMDb
Huntsville (n.k.a. Josie) (2018)
Written by: Anthony Ragnone II
Votes: 13
A girl tracks down the man responsible for her father’s death and avenges him. IMDb
I Am Ryan Reynolds
Written by: Billy Goulston
Votes: 9
An inside look at the marriage, career, and mental state of 2010’s Sexiest Man Alive.
In Real Time
Written by: Chai Hecht
Votes: 6
A young man convinced that his mentally unstable sister needs to relive her high school prom from ten years prior to overcome her depression goes to great lengths to recreate that event.
In the Deep (n.k.a. The Shallows) (2016)
Written by: Anthony Jaswinski
Votes: 13
A lone surfer attacked by a shark and stranded on a reef must find a way back to shore before succumbing to her injuries. IMDb
In This, My Darkest Hour
Written by: Bryan McMullin
Votes: 6
A man rises to power during the California gold rush, tearing his family apart.
Jackpot
Written by: Dave Callaham
Votes: 9
After a group of bumbling teachers win a large amount of money, their greed and incompetence put them on a hilarious path toward death and destruction.
