This year features 70 screenplays. Here are the next 9, indexed alphabetically, from N to R.
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 9 screenplays that made The List, indexed alphabetically, from N through R. Including Ablakhad's "North of Reno," John Patton Ford's "Rothchild," 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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North of Reno
Written by: Banipal AblakhadBenhur Ablakhad
Votes: 17
A down and out prison guard attempts to murder a recently released inmate and steal a half million dollars in hidden heist money.
On the Basis of Sex (2018)
Written by: Daniel Stiepleman
Votes: 17
The story of Ruth Bader Ginsberg, as she faced numerous obstacles to her fight for equal rights throughout her career. IMDb
One Fell Swoop
Written by: Greg Scharpf
Votes: 14
A self-centered divorce attorney’s life takes an unexpected turn when he is guilted into spending time with the family of a one night stand who dies in a freak accident.
Plus One
Written by: April Prosser
Votes: 9
Just out of a long term relationship and realizing that all her friends have married, Rachel discovers that her only remaining wing-woman is Summer, a loud and oversharing wildcard.
Possession: A Love Story
Written by: Jack Stanley
Votes: 10
In a seemingly perfect marriage, a man discovers that he is actually wedded to a demon inhabiting another woman’s body.
Professor Pasghetti
Written by: Jeff Feuerstein
Votes: 7
A famous children’s author, with an affinity for drugs and hookers, finds himself on a journey of self-discovery with a dead stripper and her eight year old son.
Road to Oz
Written by: Josh Golden
Votes: 11
The early days of brilliant, whimsical author L. Frank Baum, who gave the world The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Rockingham
Written by: Adam Morrison
Votes: 38 (2nd overall in 2014)
A look into the mania of the OJ Simpson trial, through the eyes of Simpson’s sports agent Mike Gilbert and Los Angeles Police Department Detective Mark Fuhrman.
Rothchild
Written by: John Patton Ford
Votes: 32 (5th overall in 2014)
A young, well-educated loner kills the members of his mother’s estranged family one-by-one in hopes that he will inherit the family’s vast fortune.
