2017 Top Unproduced Screenplays (Part 7: S to U)
Top scripts written by new and emerging writers. The next 9 indexed S to U.
Welcome to 2017 Top Unproduced Screenplays (Part 7 of 8), curated from industry reader feedback and year-end lists. This page includes 9 titles, indexed from S to U for quick access.
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Saviors, The
Written by: Travis Betz & Kevin Hamedani
Votes: 8
A seemingly progressive suburban husband and wife renting their garage through AirBnB become suspicious of their Muslim guests. As they investigate their visitors, they unwittingly trigger events that will forever change the course of human history.
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Skyward
Written by: Joe Ballarini
Votes: 6
The true story of two families who attempt to escape over the Berlin Wall using a hot air balloon in 1979.
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Sleep Well Tonight
Written by: Frederik With-Seidelin Skov
Votes: 18 (8th overall in 2017)
Behind the walls of a maximum security prison, a naïve teenage inmate and a rookie correctional officer are forced into a drug-smuggling operation, while a looming conflict between rival gang members threatens to boil over.
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Sleepover, The
Written by: Sarah Rothschild
Votes: 6
When bad guys break into their home and kidnap their parents, siblings Kevin and Clancy are forced to confront the fact that there may be way more to their stay-at-home mom than meets the eye.
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Social Justice Warrior
Written by: Emma Fletcher & Brett Weiner
Votes: 7
When a liberal, white, college sophomore who knows exactly how to fix society accuses her equally liberal professor of hate speech, it throws the campus and both their lives into chaos as they wage war over the right way to stop discrimination.
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Strongman
Written by: Nicholas Jacobson-Larson & Dalton Leeb
Votes: 8
Based on the confusing, sometimes offensive, borderline-insane memories of David Prowse, the irascible Englishman behind Darth Vader’s mask.
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Thing About Jellyfish, The
Written by: Molly Smith Metzler
Votes: 7
After her best friend drowns, a seventh-grade girl is convinced the true cause of the tragedy was a rare jellyfish sting. Retreating into a silent world of imagination, she crafts a plan to prove her theory.
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This is Jane
Written by: Daniel Loflin
Votes: 9
Based on the book The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service by Laura Kaplan. An ordinary group of women provide 11,000 safe, illegal abortions in Chicago from 1968 through 1973.
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Trapline
Written by: Brett Treacy & Dan Woodward
Votes: 16 (10th overall in 2017)
A captive boy’s lifestyle is upended when his abductor asks for his help kidnapping a second child.
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