This year features 73 unproduced screenplays. Here are the next 12, indexed alphabetically, from J to L.
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For Your Consideration, we have the next 12 scripts cataloged and indexed alphabetically, from J through L, for quick access. Including Kate D’Angelo's "James Cameron's Titanic," Flint Wainess' "Linda and Monica," 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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James Cameron's Titanic
Written by: Kate D’Angelo
Votes: 12
A Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead take on Titanic. An overprotective mother attempts to keep her teenage daughter, young son, and rowdy sister together while sailing on the doomed voyage of the Titanic in 1912.
The King of L.A.
Written by: Chris Bremner
Votes: 13
Set in the 1980s, based on the true story of a man who went from star DEA agent to convicted drug trafficker in the worst corruption scandal in DEA history.
Kings Canyon
Written by: Evan ParterPaul Hilborn
Votes: 10
At the height of the Cold War, Air Force pilot Lieutenant David Steeves vanishes over the Sierra Nevada mountains in a high-value jet. Fifty-four days later, left for dead, he crawls out of the wild with an impossible tale of survival. The media and military brand him a hero, launching him to fame and fortune, only to call him into question when certain discrepancies in his story point to his being a hoax, or worse — a traitor.
The Kings of Maine
Written by: Kathy Charles
Votes: 15
Living with his wife and child in a trailer while working as a janitor, Stephen King struggles with alcoholism and his own dark history as he attempts to complete Carrie.
The Last Days of Night
Written by: Graham Moore
Votes: 10
Attorney Paul Cravath takes on Thomas Edison in a legal battle to determine whether Edison or his rival George Westinghouse will provide the electricity to light America.
Late Night (2019)
Written by: Mindy Kaling
Votes: 14
A veteran late-night talk show host comes close to losing her job after hiring the show’s first female writer. IMDb
Layla...and Other Assorted Love Songs
Written by: Derek Weissbein
Votes: 15
Based on the lives and times of Eric Clapton, George Harrison, and Pattie Boyd and the tumultuous love triangle that inspired an entire generation of music.
Let the Evil Go West
Written by: Carlos Rios
Votes: 13
In the 1800s, a father desperate to care for his family finds a barrel of gold, that may be less fortune than great curse.
A Letter from Rose Kennedy
Written by: Nick Yarborough
Votes: 20 (10th overall in 2016)
Told through a series of letters to family members, the tragic true story of Rosemary Kennedy, a vibrant, passionate young woman and oldest daughter of Joe and Rose Kennedy. Born with a severe learning disability, Rosemary so worried her father with her erratic behavior that he believed the stigma of mental illness in the family would ruin his plans to build a political dynasty. He hid her away in convents and sanitariums and ultimately had her lobotomized.
Liberty
Written by: Jayson Rothwell
Votes: 10
The truly astonishing tale of Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi – the French sculptor wholly responsible for designing, building, and delivering the Statue of Liberty across the Atlantic to where it stands today.
Life Itself (2018)
Written by: Dan Fogelman
Votes: 35 (2nd overall in 2016)
A multigenerational love story that weaves together a number of characters whose lives intersect over the course of decades from the streets of New York to the Spanish countryside and back. IMDb
Linda and Monica
Written by: Flint Wainess
Votes: 20 (11th overall in 2016)
The absolutely crazy true story of the relationship between Monica Lewinsky and Linda Tripp, the woman who nearly destroyed the Clinton presidency - and herself in the process.
