This year features 76 unproduced screenplays. Here are the final 7, indexed from V to Z.
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 8.
For Your Consideration, the final batch of 7 scripts. Including Chiara Towne's "V.I.N.," Michael Moskowitz's, "Wyler," and everything in between.
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Some of the scripts listed here may have since been optioned and produced. However, at the time of "voting" they were not.
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V.I.N.
Written by: Chiara Towne
Votes: 14
As Alex Haley struggles to write the autobiography of Malcolm X, his editor at Playboy assigns him a new interview: George Lincoln Rockwell, head of the American Nazi Party.
Valedictorian
Written by: Cosmo Carlson
Votes: 12
An obsessive type-A student vows to secure the valedictorian title before school ends by any means necessary, even murder.
When in Doubt, Seduce
Written by: Allie Hagan
Votes: 16 (11th overall in 2017)
The true story of the early relationship between Elaine May and Mike Nichols.
When Lightning Strikes
Written by: Anna Klassen
Votes: 20 (6th overall in 2017)
The story of 25-year-old Joanne Rowling as she weathers first loves, unexpected pregnancies, lost jobs, and depression on her journey to create Harry Potter.
Written by: Imran Zaidi
Votes: 22 (5th overall in 2017)
In a world where your life can be saved, uploaded to a computer, and restarted in the case of your untimely demise, a husband returns from the dead, suspecting his wife may have been involved in his death.
The White Devils
Written by: Leon Hendrix III
Votes: 6
Cassius raises his sons, Malcolm and Mandela, isolated and alone in the woods. They have never met another person in their entire lives. The boys have learned to survive and protect their fragile family at all cost. When they find a mysterious wounded white girl, June, alone and lost in their woods, prejudice, lies and love set them on a collision course with the real world that puts all their lives at risk.
Wyler
Written by: Michael Moskowitz
Votes: 9
With Hitler laying waste to Europe and the United States refusing to answer the call to war, Jewish filmmaker William Wyler risks his career to make MRS. MINIVER, the most effective propaganda film of all time.
