2017: Top Unproduced Screenplays | Part 1

Best Unproduced Screenplays of 2017.

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This year features 76 unproduced screenplays. Here are the first 11, indexed alphabetically, from A to C.

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These scripts are considered as some of the best "2017: Top Unproduced Screenplays" of the year, according to hundreds of industry professionals who've read and rated them. They're cataloged and indexed alphabetically for quick access. This is part 1 of 8.

For Your Consideration, we have the first 11 scripts cataloged and indexed alphabetically for quick access. Including Todd Rosenberg's "All My Life," Zach Baylin's "Come As You Are," and everything in between.

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    All My Life (2020)

    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. IMDb

    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.

    Arc of Justice

    Written by: Max BorensteinRodney 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.

    Ballerina

    Written by: Shay Hatten

    Votes: 9

    After her family is murdered, an assassin seeks revenge on the killers.

    Bios (n.k.a. Finch) (2021)

    Written by: Craig LuckIvor Powell

    Votes: 6

    In a post-apocalyptic world, a man spends his dying days with the robot he created to look after his dog. IMDb

    The Boxer

    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.

    Breaking News in Yuba County (2021)

    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. IMDb

    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.

    Call Jane (2022)

    Written by: Hayley SchoreRoshan 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. IMDb

    Cancer Inc (f.k.a. Conundrum)

    Written by: Marc Macaluso

    Votes: 6

    Before Roe v. Wade in 1960s Chicago, a pregnant woman becomes a member of an underground group which provides abortions in a safe environment.

    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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