This year features 66 unproduced screenplays. Here are the next 8, indexed from O to R.
These scripts are considered as some of the best "2019: 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. So, For Your Consideration, the next batch of 8 scripts.
Including Henry Dunham's "The Perdition in Liége," Tyler Austin's and Patrick Eme's, "Rumours," 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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The Perdition in Liége
Written by: Henry Dunham
Votes: 7
A prisoner of war in a Belgian POW camp undergoing abandonment survives an execution firing squad by chance and escapes by hiding among the dead. After removing his fallen compatriot’s dog tags to get home and give their families solace, he attempts the fifty-mile journey south toward the allied stronghold, through the deadly war-torn landscape, and before a hell-bent SS officer on his tail catches up to him.
Pod
Written by: Nabil Chowdhary
Votes: 13 (11th overall in 2019)
After a mission to destroy a black hole that endangers mankind goes wrong, an astronaut awakens in her escape pod to find that decades have passed seemingly in a moment. Now, with an old body and fragile mind, she battles against the elements of space & time to complete her mission.
The Process
Written by: Levin Menekse
Votes: 10
Trapped at a three day personal development retreat, a woman fights to save her husband and herself from being brainwashed by a charismatic self-help guru.
Refuge
Written by: Debra Moore Muñoz
Votes: 10
A brother and sister navigate the perils of both man and nature through Central America in their quest to find safety in the United States.
The Repossession
Written by: Megan Amram
Votes: 7
Twenty years after a failed exorcism, a meek young woman becomes unlikely friends with the foul-mouthed demon that possessed her as a child.
Resurrection (2022)
Written by: Andrew Semans
Votes: 8
Margaret is a single mother living in New York with her teenage daughter. When David, a mysterious older man from Margaret’s past, begins appearing randomly in her environment, she becomes convinced that he intends to bring tremendous violence into their lives. So Margaret embarks on a vigilante mission to protect her daughter, and to disembowel David. IMDb
Ripple
Written by: Ezra Herz
Votes: 10
After strange deaths and suicides skyrocket in a dying Appalachian coal town, Maggie - a first responder - wages a personal war against the local coal mine, unearthing a disturbing past that the company has kept secret within the waters of the local lake.
Rumours
Written by: Tyler AustinPatrick Eme
Votes: 15 (7th overall in 2019)
In 1970s LA, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, two struggling musicians and lovers, join a band called Fleetwood Mac and are thrown into a whirlwind of worldwide fame, infamous drug addiction, and one of the best-selling albums of all time -- which also happens to be about the disintegration of their relationship.