2017 Top Unproduced Screenplays (Part 4: I to K)
Top scripts written by new and emerging writers. The next 9 indexed I to K.
Welcome to 2017 Top Unproduced Screenplays (Part 4 of 8), curated from industry reader feedback and year-end lists. This page includes 9 titles, indexed from I to K for quick access.
Highlights on this page include Here, Here, and Here. Use the table of contents to jump straight to a script block.
If you’re a writer, read like a craftsperson: track how the premise is framed, how scenes turn, and how quickly the pages earn your attention.
Need context on what “unproduced” means and how this section works? Start with the overview.
Infinite
Written by: Ian Shorr
Votes: 10
Based on the The Reincarnationist Papers written by D. Eric Maikranz. The hallucinations of a schizophrenic are revealed to be memories from past lives where he obtained talents that he still has to this day.
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Innocent Monsters
Written by: Elaina Perpelitt
Votes: 9
A writer struggling to crack her second novel starts to lose her sense of reality as the book bleeds into her life...and her life bleeds back.
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Jellyfish Summer
Written by: Sarah Jane Inwards
Votes: 12 (20th overall in 2017)
A young black girl’s family in 1960s Mississippi decides to harbor two human-looking refugees who have mysteriously fallen from the sky.
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Jihotties
Written by: Molly Prather
Votes: 7
In an effort to fund their start-up, two women catfish ISIS and get more than they bargained for when the CIA recruits them as spies.
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Kate
Written by: Umair Aleem
Votes: 10
When a veteran hitwoman is mysteriously poisoned on her last assignment in Tokyo, she has 24 hours to track down her killer before she dies.
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Keeper of the Diary
Written by: Samuel Franco & Evan Kilgore
Votes: 32 (4th overall in 2017)
Chronicles Otto Frank’s journey, with the help of a junior editor at Doubleday Press, to find a publisher for the diary his daughter Anne wrote during the Holocaust.
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Key of Genius
Written by: Daniel Persitz & Devon Kliger
Votes: 10
The story of Derek Paravicini, a blind, severely autistic boy who needed an incredible teacher to help realize his world-class musical ability.
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Kill Shelter
Written by: Eric Beu & Greg Martin
Votes: 00
A darkly comic crime thriller concerning three groups of people dealing with blackmail gone wrong.
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Kingbreaker, The
Written by: Andrew Bozalis & Derek Mether
Votes: 9
A CIA operative experienced in taking down kings and installing their replacements is brought in to take down a dictator he helped install a few years prior.
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