This year features 73 screenplays. Here are the next 12, indexed alphabetically, from J to N.
Looking for some weekend reads? I think we can help you with that. These scripts are considered as some of the best "2018: Top Unproduced Screenplays" of the year, according to hundreds of industry professionals who've read and rated them.
For Your Consideration, we have the next 12 scripts cataloged and indexed alphabetically for quick access. Including Bill Kennedy's "Just a Girl," Alex Fischer's and Rachel Wolther's, "Nobody Nothing Nowhere," 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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Just a Girl
Written by: Bill Kennedy
Votes: 10
After the United States survives a vampire war, a young human girl going through puberty learns that she may be turning into a vampire.
Just the Facts
Written by: Kenny Kyle
Votes: 19
The riveting true story of AJ Daulerio’s meteoric rise from obscure sports blogger to Editor-in-Chief of Gawker Media during the wild, heady early days of the digital journalism boom, culminating in the Hulk Hogan sex tape trial, which brought about Gawker’s downfall and set a precedent for billionaires to attack the media and free speech.
Kill the Leopard
Written by: Mattson Tomlin
Votes: 9
A henchman-turned-terrorist has a bone to pick with an idolized vigilante. When he takes control of a city skyscraper, the hero known as the Leopard comes to the rescue – but when both the terrorist and the Leopard are overtaken by the hostages, a kangaroo court evolves as the hostages navigate their complex histories with the vigilante.
King Richard (2021)
Written by: Zach Baylin
Votes: 35 (2nd overall in 2018)
The true story of Richard Williams, the hard-nosed and uncompromising father of tennis prodigies turned superstars, Venus and Serena Williams. IMDb
The Kings of Cool
Written by: Jon Dorsey
Votes: 9
During segregation in the 1960s American South, a nerdy teen tries to win a student election at an all-black high school, but he’ll have to defeat a blossoming badass named Samuel L. Jackson to do so. Based on a true story.
The Liberators
Written by: Madison Turner
Votes: 10
At the height of World War II, a headstrong African-American tank commander and his crew plow through war- torn Europe, determined to prove themselves as equals and bring Hitler to his knees.
Little Fish (2021)
Written by: Mattson Tomlin
Votes: 7
A couple fights to hold their relationship together as a memory loss virus spreads and threatens to erase the history of their love and courtship. IMDb
Mamba
Written by: Mike Schneider
Votes: 9
A chronicle of the Kobe Bryant sexual assault case in the early 2000s, based on reports, court transcripts, and police interviews.
Me & Tammy Faye at the Betty Ford Clinic
Written by: Pamela Garcia Rooney
Votes: 7
The unlikely bond between a Latinx transgender woman and the queen of Christian televangelism. Inspired by the very real life of Tammy Faye Bakker.
Meet Cute (2022)
Written by: Noga Pnueli
Votes: 12
When a woman finds a time machine in a downtown Manhattan nail salon, she uses it to keep traveling back in time 24 hours to make her previous night’s date perfect. IMDb
Naked Is the Best Disguise
Written by: Graham Moore
Votes: 8
In a near future in which illegal new technology allows specific memories to be removed from one person’s brain and inserted into another's, a woman who deals in black market memories is accused of murdering a man she does not remember knowing.
Nobody Nothing Nowhere
Written by: Alex FischerRachel Wolther
Votes: 7
Ruth is one of the non-people: human-looking beings designed and trained for the sole purpose of filling in a realistic world for a bland guy named Dave, the only person to actually exist on Earth. Tired of serving as an extra in someone else’s life, she has the audacity to demand a life of her own.
