This year features 76 unproduced screenplays. Here are the next 8, indexed alphabetically, from D to F.
Let's continue our look at 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 2 of 8.
For Your Consideration, we have the next 8 scripts cataloged and indexed alphabetically for quick access. Including Christy Hall's "Daddio," Brent Hyman's "Fubar," and everything in between.
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A word about voting... and other important stuff about the "best of" 2017 Unproduced Scripts.
Some of the scripts listed here may have since been optioned and produced. However, at the time of "voting" they were not.
Also, like all of the screenplays on this site, copyrights remain with the writer(s). 8FLiX does not claim ownership of any screenplay, nor were we involved in voting for, or choosing what makes them the "best of" a particular year.
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Daddio (2023)
Written by: Christy Hall
Votes: 40 (3rd overall in 2017)
A passenger and her cab driver reminisce about their relationships on the way from the airport to her apartment in New York. IMDb
Don't Be Evil
Written by: Gabriel DianiEtta DevineEvan Bates
Votes: 10
Adapted from In the Plex by Steven Levy and I’m Feeling Lucky by Douglas Edwards. Google’s Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt struggle with their corporate motto, "Don’t Be Evil," in the face of their meteoric rise to a multi-billion dollar valuation and a major Chinese hacking incident.
Dorothy & Alice (2024)
Written by: Justin Merz
Votes: 7
Dorothy Gale and Alice meet in a home for those having nightmares and embark on a journey to save the imaginations of the world. IMDb
Escape
Written by: JD PaynePatrick McKay
Votes: 9
When a wrongly accused man is shipped to an Australian penal colony for five years, he quickly realizes his only chance of seeing his family again is to escape the prison with a gang of colors and survive the deadly terrain that awaits on the outside.
Escape from the North Pole
Written by: Paul LaudieroBen Baker
Votes: 10
A young girl partners up with an elf, a Russian explorer and a reindeer to rescue Santa Claus from a band of evil elves and save the North Pole.
The Expansion Project
Written by: Leo Sardarian
Votes: 15 (12th overall in 2017)
A rookie Marine gets stranded on a hostile planet during humanity’s space colonization with nothing but her exo-suit that’s running out of fusion power.
The Fifth Nixon
Written by: Sharon Hoffman
Votes: 6
Watergate as experienced through the eyes of President Richard Nixon’s personal secretary Rose Mary Woods.
Fubar
Written by: Brent Hyman
Votes: 10
An inept CIA psychologist is embedded on a globe-trotting mission with the agency’s most valuable operative who suffers from an extreme case of multiple personality disorder.
