2017 Top Unproduced Screenplays (Part 1: A to C)
Top scripts written by new and emerging writers. The first 11 indexed A to C.
Welcome to 2017 Top Unproduced Screenplays (Part 1 of 8), curated from industry reader feedback and year-end lists. This page includes 11 titles, indexed from A to C for quick access.
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All My Life
Written by: Todd Rosenberg
Votes: 6
After discovering the groom has liver cancer, a couple move their wedding date up and get married before he passes away.
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American Tabloid
Written by: Adam Morrison
Votes: 6
The true story of Generoso Pope, Jr., who with the help of the New York mob turned a small, local paper into the phenomenon that is The National Enquirer, laying the foundation for tabloid journalism as we know it today.
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Arc of Justice
Written by: Max Borenstein & Rodney Barnes
Votes: 10
Based on the book Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age written by Kevin Boyle. Chronicles the landmark civil rights trial of Dr. Ossian Sweet after he was charged with the murder of a white man.
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Ballerina
Written by: Shay Hatten
Votes: 9
After her family is murdered, an assassin seeks revenge on the killers.
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Bios (n.k.a. Finch)
Written by: Craig Luck & Ivor Powell
Votes: 6
In a post-apocalyptic world, a man spends his dying days with the robot he created to look after his dog.
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Boxer, The
Written by: Justine Juel Gillmer
Votes: 8
A young Polish man escapes from a concentration camp in which he was forced by SS agents to box other Jews, travels to America to begin a successful career as a professional boxer, and reunites with the woman he lost.
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Breaking News in Yuba County
Written by: Amanda Idoko
Votes: 19 (7th overall in 2017)
After catching her husband in bed with a hooker, which causes him to die of a heart attack, Sue Bottom buries the body and takes advantage of the local celebrity status that comes from having a missing husband.
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Brosio
Written by: Mattson Tomlin
Votes: 11
Inspired by the work of artist John Brosio. When a man begins to lose all of the people close to him in a series of increasingly absurd natural disasters, he must find out why his world has been turned upside down.
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Call Jane
Written by: Hayley Schore & Roshan Sethi
Votes: 7
Before Roe v. Wade in 1960s Chicago, a pregnant woman becomes a member of an underground group which provides abortions in a safe environment.
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Cancer Inc (f.k.a. Conundrum)
Written by: Marc Macaluso
Votes: 6
The true story of the corporatization of cancer in the United States told through the eyes of a British Wall Street analyst who uncovers the corruption behind the approval of a drug intended to treat prostate cancer.
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Come As You Are
Written by: Zach Baylin
Votes: 13
An idealistic young woman’s life begins to unravel when her job in social media exposes her to the darkest corners of humanity, sending her on a violent mission to take down not just the web’s most vicious content, but its creators as well.
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