2018 Top Unproduced Screenplays (Part 2: C to F)
Top scripts written by new and emerging writers. The next 11 indexed C to F.
Welcome to 2018 Top Unproduced Screenplays (Part 2 of 7), curated from industry reader feedback and year-end lists. This page includes 11 titles, indexed from C to F for easy access.
Highlights on this page include Cobweb, Dead Dads Club, and Frat Boy Genius. Use the table of contents to jump straight to a script block.
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CI-34
Written by: Sascha Penn
Votes: 8
The FBI pairs a young African-American agent with Greg Scarpa, the most notorious hitman in mafia history, to solve the murder of a civil rights activist in 1966 Mississippi.
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Cobweb
Written by: Chris Thomas Devlin
Votes: 29 (7th overall in 2018)
Peter has always been told the voice he hears at night is only in his head, but when he suspects his parents have been lying, he conspires to free the girl within the walls of his house.
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Conviction
Written by: Chris Kekaniokalani Bright
Votes: 9
The incredible true story of the final trial of Clarence Darrow, the greatest attorney of the 20th century who for the first and only time in his career was fighting for the wrong side. Darrow defends a wealthy white family caught murdering a native Hawaiian boy whom they wrongfully accused of raping their daughter.
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Covers (n.k.a. The High Note)
Written by: Flora Greeson
Votes: 20 (11th overall in 2018)
The longtime assistant of a famous singer must navigate the rocky waters of the LA music scene to make her dreams of producing music a reality.
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Dark
Written by: Nelson Greaves
Votes: 9
When the crew of an oil rig begins to drill on one of the deepest stretches of the ocean floor, they awake a dark and dangerous creature that has been hidden away for hundreds of years.
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Dead Dads Club
Written by: Amanda Idoko
Votes: 11
A high schooler, in an effort to find a more interesting story for her college scholarship application, lies about her father’s recent death. But when the father tries to take advantage of the lie by faking his own death, the high schooler’s nemesis investigates, and bodies start piling up.
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The Defender
Written by: E. Nicholas Mariani
Votes: 8
At the height of Jim Crow, a courageous black attorney with the audacious name of Scipio Africanus Jones risks his life and career to defend eighty-seven men wrongfully accused of murder, taking the case all the way to the United States Supreme Court and achieving a stunning victory that will change American history forever. Based on a true story.
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Drudge
Written by: Cody Brotter
Votes: 30 (4th overall in 2018)
The story of how oddball internet reporter Matt Drudge broke the Lewinsky Scandal and nearly took down a presidency, all from a desktop computer in his one-bedroom apartment in Hollywood.
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Escher
Written by: Jason Kessler
Votes: 8
Famed artist M.C. Escher reluctantly uses his unique view of the world to help the Dutch Resistance fight Nazi occupation during WWII. Inspired by the life and art of M.C. Escher.
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Fastest Game, The
Written by: Katie Werner & Zach Werner
Votes: 11
Miami, 1975. Ronnie Weiss, a law school graduate primed to start his life, is suddenly saddled with his late- father’s enormous gambling debt and thrust into a world he has desperately tried to avoid. To climb out of the hole and escape a notorious Miami Beach bookie, Ronnie and a childhood friend devise a betting system that exploits the glamorous, high-stakes sport of Jai Alai, making millions of dollars and enemies of the Boston Mob and Federal Government in the process. Based on a true story.
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Frat Boy Genius
Written by: Elissa Karasik
Votes: 36 (1st overall in 2018)
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