This year features 70 screenplays. Here are the next 12, indexed alphabetically, from L to M.
We have fantastic reads for you this week. 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 next 12 scripts cataloged and indexed alphabetically, from L through M, for quick access. Including Joey Hartstone's "LBJ" biopic, Marc Meyers' "My Friend Dahmer," and everything in between.
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Some of the scripts listed here may have since been optioned and produced. However, at the time of "voting" they were not.
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LBJ (2016)
Written by: Joey Hartstone
Votes: 7
Lyndon Johnson goes from powerful Senate Majority Leader, powerless Vice President to President of the United States following the assassination of John F. Kennedy. IMDb
The Long Haul
Written by: Dan Stoller
Votes: 15
A self-destructive trucker estranged from his son travels cross country with a problematic nephew whom he barely knows.
The Man in the Rockefeller Suit
Written by: David Bar Katz
Votes: 6
The story of Clark Rockefeller, a con artist thought to be American royalty until he kidnapped his young daughter initiating a manhunt that revealed his true identity.
Manchester by the Sea (2016)
Written by: Kenneth Lonergan
Votes: 7
An uncle is forced to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy’s father dies. IMDb
Matriarch
Written by: Eric Koenig
Votes: 15
A prison psychologist has 48 hours to convince a serial killer to tell her the location of her final victim before she is executed.
Mena (n.k.a. American Made) (2017)
Written by: Gary Spinelli
Votes: 18 (12th overall in 2014)
In the late 1970s to mid 1980s, Barry Seal, a TWA pilot recruited by the CIA to provide reconnaissance on the burgeoning communist threat in Central America finds himself in charge of one of the biggest covert CIA operations in the history of the United States, one that spawned the birth of the Medellin cartel and eventually almost brought down the Reagan White House with the Iran Contra scandal. IMDb
Merc
Written by: Andrew BozalisDerek Mether
Votes: 7
When a disgraced former soldier finds success by working for a private security company, the illegal tactics the company employs challenges his worldview.
Money Monster (2016)
Written by: Alan DiFioreJim KoufJamie Linden
Votes: 6
After a man loses all his money in the stock market by following the advice of a Wall Street TV host, he takes the money adviser hostage on live television. IMDb
Moonfall
Written by: David Weil
Votes: 16
The investigation of a murder on a moon colony.
Morgan (2016)
Written by: Seth W. Owen
Votes: 8
A corporate risk management consultant is summoned to a remote research lab to determine whether or not to terminate an at-risk artificial being. IMDb
The Munchkin
Written by: Will Widger
Votes: 16
A little person private eye investigates the disappearance of a young actress in 1930s Hollywood, leading him to uncover conspiracies involving THE WIZARD OF OZ and Metro Goldwyn Mayer brass.
My Friend Dahmer (2017)
Written by: Marc Meyers
Votes: 6
Based on the acclaimed graphic novel by John Backderf, Jeffrey Dahmer struggles with a difficult family life as a young boy and during his teenage years he slowly transforms, edging closer to the serial killer he becomes. IMDb
