This year features 73 unproduced screenplays. Here are the next 12, indexed alphabetically, from G to I.
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For Your Consideration, here are the next 12 screenplays cataloged and indexed alphabetically, from G through I, for quick access. Including Lucas Carter's "The Gun Show," Dan Gilroy's "Inner City," and everything in between.
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The Gun Show
Written by: Lucas Carter
Votes: 7
A famous top cop wakes up twenty years after a shootout and is reinstated to solve the case that killed his old partner. Only problem: he’s a bull in a China shop, and 2016 is a very different time than the 1990s world he’s used to. To teach him the ropes, he’s paired with his old partner’s son, a risk averse traffic cop.
Hala (2019)
Written by: Minhal Baig
Votes: 19 (12th overall in 2016)
When a teenaged Muslim-American girl, struggling with identity issues already, discovers her father is having an affair with a colleague, she responds by seducing her English teacher, ultimately leading to her parents’ divorce.
Hart You
Written by: Zoe McCarthy
Votes: 12
Estranged siblings pose as a married couple in the Amalfi Coast to win a cash prize.
Hotel Artemis (2018)
Written by: Drew Pearce
Votes: 6
In riot-torn, near future Los Angeles, the wrong six people become trapped for the night in Hotel Artemis – a secret, members-only emergency room for criminals. IMDb
The Housewife
Written by: Alyssa Hill
Votes: 7
Based on a true story set in 1960s New York, a journalist finds and investigates a woman whom he believes is married to a Nazi in hiding. Their relationship results in the first ever extradition of an American citizen for war crimes.
Hummingbird
Written by: John Tyler Mclain
Votes: 7
A black-ops assassin’s latest mark forces her to question the truth of her identity and ultimately confront the unsettling fact that she’s more than a hired gun, she’s an entirely new breed of weapon.
The Hunchback
Written by: Topher Rhys-Lawrence
Votes: 8
Defying an isolationist, fear-mongering government, a gypsy revolutionary, a mutinous soldier, and a deaf hunchback become the champions of human tolerance and the symbols for a peaceful future in a dystopian revision of Victor Hugo’s novel.
I Am Mother (2019)
Written by: John Tyler Mclain
Votes: 14
A teenage girl is raised underground by a robot "Mother" – designed to repopulate the earth’s surface following an extinction-level event. But their unique bond is threatened when an inexplicable stranger arrives with alarming news. IMDb
I Think We're Alone Now (2018)
Written by: Mike Makowsky
Votes: 14
The apocalypse proves a blessing in disguise for one lucky recluse – until a second survivor arrives with the threat of companionship. IMDb
I, Tonya (2017)
Written by: Steven Rogers
Votes: 8
Based on the author’s irony free, wildly contradictory, totally true interviews with Tonya Harding and Jeff Gillooly. IMDb
In the Blink of an Eye
Written by: Colby Day
Votes: 25 (6th overall in 2016)
Explores the entire history of the universe and our species through three interwoven storylines that question the very nature of life, love, mortality, where we’ve been, and where we’re going; the past, present, and future of the human race.
Inner City (n.k.a. Roman J. Israel, Esq.) (2017)
Written by: Dan Gilroy
Votes: 8
When a hard nosed liberal lawyer who has been fighting the good fight while others take the credit assumes the role of his crusading firm’s front man, he discovers some unsettling things about what they’ve done, resulting in an existential crisis that leads to extreme action. IMDb
