This year features 76 unproduced screenplays. Here are the next 9, indexed alphabetically, from I to K.
Are you ready for more? 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 4 of 8.
For Your Consideration, we have the next 9 scripts cataloged and indexed alphabetically for quick access. Including Ian Shorr's "Infinite," Andrew Bozalis' and Derek Mether's "The Kingbreaker," 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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Infinite (2021)
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. IMDb
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.
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.
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.
Kate (2021)
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. IMDb
Keeper of the Diary
Written by: Samuel FrancoEvan 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.
Key of Genius
Written by: Daniel PersitzDevon 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.
Kill Shelter
Written by: Eric BeuGreg Martin
Votes: 10
A darkly comic crime thriller concerning three groups of people dealing with blackmail gone wrong.
The Kingbreaker
Written by: Andrew BozalisDerek 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.
