2017 Top Unproduced Screenplays (Part 6: O to R)
Top scripts written by new and emerging writers. The next 11 indexed O to R.
Welcome to 2017 Top Unproduced Screenplays (Part 6 of 8), curated from industry reader feedback and year-end lists. This page includes 11 titles, indexed from O to R for quick access.
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Written by: Ryan Jennifer Jones
Votes: 6
In a slightly futuristic/hyper-efficient Manhattan, a newly-single book editor purchases a customizable sex android to assuage her broken heart. When her toy’s closed feedback loop starts to alter her personality, she must reevaluate the merits of a perfectly-compatible partner.
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One Thousand Paper Cranes
Written by: Ben Bolea
Votes: 13
The incredible story of Sadako Sasaki, a young girl living in Hiroshima when the atomic bomb was dropped. Years later when she gets leukemia, she hears about the legend that if someone folds one thousand paper cranes, a wish will be granted. At the same time, aspiring writer Eleanor Coerr learns of Sadako’s story and becomes determined to bring her message of hope and peace to the world.
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Other Lamb, The
Written by: Catherine McMullen
Votes: 9
A young female coming-of-age story set within an alternative religion.
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Panopticon
Written by: Emily Jerome
Votes: 6
A look at the criminal justice and private prison system, told from the perspectives of a new inmate, a correctional officer, and a Wall Street hotshot.
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Poison Squad, The
Written by: Dreux Moreland & Joey DePaolo
Votes: 7
Based on the true story of Harvey Wiley, an eccentric chemist who conducted the first experiment on human tolerance to poison, which catalyzed a movement resulting in the founding of the Food and Drug Administration.
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Power (n.k.a. Project Power)
Written by: Mattson Tomlin
Votes: 11
When a young drug dealer is kidnapped by a man hellbent on finding his missing daughter, they must team up to get to the bottom of the mystery of the intense street drug known as Power.
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Prospect, The
Written by: Ben Epstein
Votes: 7
Michael Jordan uses a year as a baseball prospect to find himself after his father’s death.
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Queen Elizabeth
Written by: Shatara Michelle Ford
Votes: 6
An uptight, high-achieving, black post-grad who becomes (increasingly) irreverent and (slightly) destructive when she realizes that the life she’s living is not the life she wants.
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Rodney & Sheryl (n.k.a. Woman of the Hour)
Written by: Ian MacAllister-McDonald
Votes: 6
Based on the unbelievable true story of serial killer Rodney Alcala -- detectives have estimated Alcala’s body count to be north of 130 victims. Despite being in the midst of a killing spree, Alcala appeared on won a date with one of the contestants on THE DATING GAME.
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Ruin
Written by: Matthew Firpo & Ryan Firpo
Votes: 68 (1st overall in 2017)
A nameless ex-Nazi captain must navigate the ruins of post-WWII Germany to atone for his crimes during the war by hunting down and killing the surviving members of his former SS death squad.
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Ruthless
Written by: John Swetnam
Votes: 13 (19th overall in 2017)
After she is diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, a former assassin must carry out one last assignment in order to ensure her daughter’s future.
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