2019 Top Unproduced Screenplays (Part 1: # to A)
Top scripts written by new and emerging writers. The first 8 indexed # to A.
Welcome to 2019 Top Unproduced Screenplays (Part 1 of 7), curated from industry reader feedback and year-end lists. This page includes 8 titles, indexed from # to A for easy access.
Highlights on this page include 8-Bit Christmas, Apex, and Atlanta on Fire. Use the table of contents to jump straight to a script block.
If you’re a writer, read like a craftsperson: track how the premise is framed, how scenes turn, and how quickly the pages earn your attention.
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10-31
Written by: Peter Gamble & Ian Shorr
Votes: 7
A young woman takes her niece and nephew trick-or-treating and discovers a note inside a candy wrapper that says there’s a killer loose on her block.
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8-Bit Christmas
Written by: Kevin Jakubowski
Votes: 11
Ten-year-old Jake Doyles goes on a herculean quest to get the Christmas gift of his generation - a Nintendo Entertainment System - in suburban Chicago in the late 1980s.
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Affairs of State
Written by: Pat Cunnane
Votes: 8
Romantic comedy about an outgoing President, an incoming Prime Minister, and their second shot at love.
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An Aftermath
Written by: Lauren Caris Cohan
Votes: 8
After a whirlwind lost-distance online romance, a once-cynical writer inherits a remote smart-house from her newly deceased new husband and discovers he might not be entirely gone after all.
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Apex (II)
Written by: Aja Gabel & MJ Wesner
Votes: 8
When old college friends on a trip to Mexico get trapped in an underwater cave system with a bull shark, old tensions and power struggles resurface as they fight to survive.
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Apex
Written by: Stephen Vitale
Votes: 6
A mysterious loner heads to Muscle Beach in 1985 to pursue a career as a competitive bodybuilder. Struggling to transform his physique, he unleashes a darker side of himself as he descends into madness.
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Assisted Living
Written by: Kay Oyegun
Votes: 6
A thief finds sanctuary in a retirement home after going on the run.
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Atlanta on Fire
Written by: Adam Morrison
Votes: 6
The true story of Leo Frank, a young, Jewish businessman who, due to widespread anti-Semitism/the KKK in the post Civil War South, was wrongfully accused, tried, and convicted of murdering a 13-year-old factory worker, Mary Phagan.
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