2016 Top Unproduced Screenplays (Part 5: M to P)
Top scripts written by new and emerging writers. The next 11 indexed M to P.
Welcome to 2016 Top Unproduced Screenplays (Part 5 of 6), curated from industry reader feedback and year-end lists. This page includes 11 titles, indexed from M to P for quick access.
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Man Alive
Written by: Joseph J. Greenberg & David Robert Mitchell
Votes: 14
After an alien invasion takes over the minds of humankind, one survivor known as "Man" must make peace with the alien force to fight a greater evil.
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Maximum King!
Written by: Shay Hatten
Votes: 15
An outlandish, surreal imagining of how in 1985 Stephen King wrote and directed his horror classic MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE.
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Miller's Girl
Written by: Jade Bartlett
Votes: 6
A precocious young writer becomes involved with her high school creative writing teacher in a dark coming of age drama that examines the blurred lines of emotional connectivity between professor and protégé, child and adult.
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Miserable Adventures of Burt Squire, The
Written by: Ben Bolea
Votes: 18 (13th overall in 2016)
The unbelievable true story of a family man from Alaska in the midst of a midlife crisis who embarks on what he hoped would be a dream sailing vacation but ends up shipwrecked in the Atlantic Ocean with a charming but psychotic sea captain who has decided to stop taking his medication.
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Mr. Toy
Written by: Chai Hecht
Votes: 6
The true story of Marvin Glass, brilliant, charismatic, self-loathing, paranoid, demanding – and probably the greatest toy inventor of all time.
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Northeast Kingdom
Written by: Alex R. Johnson
Votes: 12
When Angie witnesses the betrayal and murder of her father during a smuggler’s drop, the vigilant and determined young woman calls in the help of a mysterious female assassin to seek revenge against all those responsible.
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Olympian, The
Written by: Tony Tost
Votes: 35 (3rd overall in 2016)
The true story of an underdog rower trying to make it into the 1984 Olympics, told through the story of his relationships with his coach, his father, his fiancée, and with competition itself.
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Orb
Written by: Steve Desmond & Michael Sherman
Votes: 8
Inspired by actual events from a phenomenon that occurred in 1974, a young married couple discover a mysterious metallic orb in the woods near their house following a meteor shower. While the unusual object dazzles the couple by exhibiting some awe-inspiring properties, its true purposes are revealed to be far more sinister than they could ever imagine.
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Oxygen
Written by: Christie LeBlanc
Votes: 22 (7th overall in 2016)
Waking up inside a cryogenic chamber with no memory of how she got there, Charlie must somehow escape the chamber before her air runs out.
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Palmer
Written by: Cheryl Guerriero
Votes: 7
A recently-paroled convict returns to his hometown in the South, where he forms an unlikely-but-powerful bond with a young, effeminate boy.
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Post, Thet
Written by: Liz Hannah
Votes: 35 (4th overall in 2016)
Before Watergate, there was the Pentagon Papers. This is the true story of how Washington Post scion Katharine Graham and legendary editor Ben Bradlee overcame their differences to publish the story that would change their lives.
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