2020 Top Unproduced Screenplays (Part 1: A to B)
The top scripts written by new and emerging writers. The first 12 indexed A to B.
Welcome to 2020 Top Unproduced Screenplays (Part 1 of 8), curated from industry reader feedback and year-end lists. This page includes 12 titles, indexed from A to B for easy access.
Highlights on this page include Annalise & Song, Blood Ties, and Bring Me Back. 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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Written by: Scott Conroy
Votes: 10
The incredible true story of the multi-billion dollar Malaysian government corruption scandal which led to the conviction of Prime Minister Najib Razak and almost $5 billion in settlements paid out by Goldman Sachs.
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Annalise & Song
Written by: SJ Inwards
Votes: 10
Annalise is a girl who quite literally "sees the world differently" than everyone else and finds herself a lonely, misunderstood outcast who keeps her "cursed sight" a secret as a consequence. But everything changes when Annalise meets her new neighbor, Peter Song -- a fellow teenager whom everyone else sees as a disfigured boy, but whom Annalise sees entirely differently.
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Bella
Written by: Jason Markarian
Votes: 7
Set against the backdrop of an unprecedented crime wave that gripped New York City in the 80s, a hyper-stylized action thriller about a cop’s daughter who, after her father clings to life following an assassination attempt, goes on a rampage to unearth her father’s assassin and weed out deep-rooted corruption in the NYPD.
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Big, Bold, Beautiful Journey, A
Written by: Seth Reiss
Votes: 14
After both attending the same wedding solo, David and Sarah embark on a big, bold, beautiful journey with a little help from their 1996 Passat GPS and a little bit of magic for the road trip of their lives.
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Bikram
Written by: Silpa Kovvali
Votes: 11
Based on an unbelievable story, BIKRAM chronicles the rise and fall of celebrity yoga guru Bikram Choudhury through the eyes of his young wife Rajashree, who engineers his ascent to fame and fortune, then fights to salvage their empire when his crimes bring it crumbling to the ground.
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Birdies
Written by: Colin Bannon
Votes: 16
When Tabitha, a struggling foster kid, wins a contest to become part of the BIRDIES, a popular daily YouTube channel featuring the radiant and enigmatic Mama Bird and her diverse brood of adopted children, she soon learns that things get dark when the cameras turn off.
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Black Belt, The
Written by: Randall Green
Votes: 15
Eighth grader Simon Paluska dreams of being a Taekwondo Black Belt, but he’s not allowed to take lessons. So he buys a Black Belt on Amazon for twenty-five bucks. Then, he has to use it.
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Blood Ties
Written by: Aaron Katz
Votes: 10
Based on the New Yorker article by Nathan Heller. A true-crime thriller based on the story of two brilliant college lovers convicted of a brutal slaying. An obsessed detective investigates the true motives that led to a double homicide, and the decades of repercussions that follow.
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Borderline
Written by: Jimmy Warden
Votes: 11
A bodyguard protects a pop superstar and her athlete boyfriend from a determined stalker in 1990s Los Angeles.
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Boy Who Died, The
Written by: Monisha Dadlani
Votes: 10
A young girl creates a robot version of Harry Potter while her father simultaneously is treating Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe for a terminal disease.
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Bring Me Back
Written by: Crosby Selander
Votes: 22 (6th overall in 2020)
When a woman on an interstellar voyage falls in love with someone during a cryosleep simulation, she attempts to discern whether the man is a real passenger on the ship or just a figment of her imagination.
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Bubble & Squeak
Written by: Evan Twohy
Votes: 21 (7th overall in 2020)
Two newlyweds traverse a fictional country on their honeymoon but slowly realize they’re yearning to take separate journeys.
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