2018 Top Unproduced Screenplays (Part 1: # to B)
Top scripts written by new and emerging writers. The first 13 indexed # to B.
Welcome to 2018 Top Unproduced Screenplays (Part 1 of 7), curated from industry reader feedback and year-end lists. This page includes 13 titles, indexed from # to B for easy access.
Highlights on this page include The 29th Accident, Bag Man, and Bolsa Negra. Use the table of contents to jump straight to a script block.
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(Please) Maternity Leave
Written by: Ari Berkowitz & Ava Tramer
Votes: 9
Two friends try to get their third friend pregnant so they can stop hanging out with her.
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29th Accident, The
Written by: Alanna Brown
Votes: 8
A young man tragically loses his wife on the day of their wedding. He is devastated, until four years later on their wedding anniversary, he awakens to find his beloved wife alive and well beside him.
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73 Seconds
Written by: Shawn Dwyer
Votes: 10
The extraordinary true story of Bob Ebeling and Roger Boisjoly, the aerospace engineers who discovered the “o-ring anomaly” that led to the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. After struggling to convince their superiors at Morton-Thiokol and NASA to investigate the anomaly, Ebeling and Boisjoly were tasked with proving it: an extremely complicated and expensive endeavor that took an emotional toll on their lives but helped bring about changes to the Shuttle Program that saved the lives of future astronauts.
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AMA (Ask Me Anything)
Written by: John Wikstrom
Votes: 7
A highly publicized AMA (Q&A) session between a fast-rising publicist and an aging music icon quickly turns into a deadly game of cat and mouse when the event is seized by a hacker who systematically begins revealing dark secrets from both of their pasts, forcing them to publicly confront the horrific events they’ve committed on the largest social media platform in the world.
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Analytica
Written by: Scott Conroy
Votes: 21 (9th overall in 2018)
The true story of Chris Wylie and Cambridge Analytica.
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At Risk
Written by: Jenny Halper
Votes: 7
Told through the eyes of ten year old Charlie in 1986, a family struggles to stay intact when an AIDS diagnosis makes them pariahs in their small New England town. Based on Alice Hoffman’s novel.
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Bag Man
Written by: Alex Convery
Votes: 17
Atticus Archer is college football’s version of a fixer. As he juggles chasing the nation’s top prospect, a mental breakdown from a star quarterback, and his own personal demons, an NCAA agent arrives on campus to threaten everything.
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Beast
Written by: Aaron W. Sala
Votes: 9
After a plane crash in the Pacific Ocean, a woman finds herself marooned on an island with a bloodthirsty beast.
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Biscuit, The
Written by: Jack Waz
Votes: 19 (12th overall in 2018)
In 1998, a teacher and her veteran husband find a way to afford the family they’ve always dreamed of: by selling America’s nuclear launch codes after President Bill Clinton loses them.
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Black Flies (n.k.a. Asphalt City)
Written by: Ryan King
Votes: 10
A young man becomes an emergency medical technician in Harlem as a temporary stop before he enters medical school. There, he experiences a range of crises and stressful misadventures, including a mentor who has been numbed to the point that he makes a wrong decision in a life-and-death situation.
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Blur
Written by: Jacob Colman
Votes: 9
When a guy in a committed relationship starts to suspect that the avatar he’s been digitally hooking up with might belong to his best friend’s girlfriend, he becomes entangled in something he can’t quite understand.
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Bolsa Negra
Written by: Dave Rabinowitz & Charlie Wachtel
Votes: 10
A down and out sports agent risks everything to bring a star Cuban baseball player back to the United States to play in the Major Leagues. Based on an amalgamation of true stories detailing the rise of the League’s movement to smuggle Cuban baseball players into the US during the 1990s.
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Broodmare, The
Written by: Michael Voyer
Votes: 20 (10th overall in 2018)
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