This year features 66 unproduced screenplays. Here are the final 8, indexed from T to Z.
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. For Your Consideration, the final batch of 8 scripts. Including Eric Gross' "T," Andrew Zilch's "Wayward," and everything in between.
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A word about voting... and other important stuff about the "best of" 2019 Unproduced Scripts.
Some of the scripts listed here may have since been optioned and produced. However, at the time of "voting" they were not.
Also, like all of the screenplays on this site, copyrights remain with the writer(s). 8FLiX does not claim ownership of any screenplay, nor were we involved in voting for, or choosing what makes them the "best of" a particular year.
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T
Written by: Eric Gross
Votes: 6
The true story of how Lawrence Tureaud, a poor kid in Chicago with 12 brothers and sisters, fought and charmed his way into becoming the single lettered icon of saintly compassion and macho energy.
They Cloned Tyrone (2022)
Written by: Tony RettenmaierJuel Taylor
Votes: 10
An unlikely group is thrown together by mysterious events that leads them to uncover a government conspiracy. IMDb
This Is Going to Hurt
Written by: Cameron Fay
Votes: 6
An absent mother attempts to reconnect with her daughter by relaying to her how she helped her own parent through battles with cancer and addiction.
Til Death
Written by: Jessica Knoll
Votes: 6
Swept up in the excitement of her wedding day, Dr. Julie Wheeler is oblivious to the killer on her guest list, who is methodically stalking her nearest and dearest, until its too late.
The Traveler
Written by: Austin Everett
Votes: 16 (5th overall in 2019)
A man jumps forward in time at the same time every morning. As the length of time increases for every jump, he struggles to keep his family together and find a cure, all as his secret spreads throughout the world. Based on the novel by Joseph Eckert.
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022)
Written by: Kevin EttenTom Gormican
Votes: 16 (6th overall in 2019)
Actor Nicolas Cage, spiraling and trapped in debt, makes an appearance at the birthday party of a Mexican billionaire. While there, he learns that the billionaire runs a drug cartel, and the CIA recruits Cage for intelligence. IMDb
Voicemails for Isabelle
Written by: Leah McKendrick
Votes: 6
A low-level TV writer struggles to cope with the death of her little sister by continuing to leave her voicemails chronicling the shitshow that is dating in LA. When the phone number is unknowingly transferred, a cocky New York real estate agent begins receiving the hilarious and confessional voicemails, and feels pulled to California to find this stranger he feels intimately close to.
Wayward
Written by: Andrew Zilch
Votes: 13
The wife of a megachurch pastor seeks atonement after she and her lover kill an attacker in self-defense, but don’t report it out of fear of exposing their affair.
