This year features 80 (mostly) unproduced screenplays. Here are the next 10, indexed alphabetically, from C to E.
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For Your Consideration, we have the next 10 scripts cataloged and indexed alphabetically for quick access. Including Jingyi Shao's comedy "Chang Can Dunk," Alex Convery's "Excelsior!" and everything in between.
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A word about voting... and other important stuff about the "best of" 2020 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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Chang Can Dunk (2023)
Written by: Jingyi Shao
Votes: 28 (2nd overall in 2020)
A young Asian-American teen and basketball fanatic who just wants to dunk and get the girl ends up learning much more about himself, his best friends, and his mother. IMDb
Cosmic Sunday
Written by: MacMillan Hedges
Votes: 9
A small percentage of the population is stuck in a time loop and have had to create a society that functions within the same day, repeated day in and day out. One man struggles to find himself for the first time in ages amidst a society clinging to a sense of normalcy.
Crush On You
Written by: Shea Mayo
Votes: 10
Summer on a secluded campus takes a dark turn for three college girls when a supernaturally sexy mystery man begins haunting their dreams.
The Culling
Written by: Stephen Herman
Votes: 10
A troubled priest confines himself to a remote cabin in the middle of the woods where he attempts to make a last stand against the demon that terrorized his family when he was a child.
Dust (2024)
Written by: Karrie Crouse
Votes: 7
A young mother in 1930s Oklahoma is convinced that her family is threatened and takes drastic steps to keep them safe. IMDb
Earworm
Written by: Austin Everett
Votes: 9
A former music therapist is recruited to use a mysterious machine to dive into the memories of a serial killer on death row.
Emancipation (2023)
Written by: Bill Collage
Votes: 8
Based on a true story, a runaway slave has to outwit bounty hunters and the perils of a Louisiana swamp to reach the Union army and his only chance at freedom. IMDb
Emergency (2022)
Written by: KD Davila
Votes: 21 (8th overall in 2020)
Ready for a night of partying, a group of Black and Latino college students must weigh the pros and cons of calling the police when faced with an emergency. IMDb
Enemies Within
Written by: Cat Vasko
Votes: 14
In the 1950’s, Joseph McCarthy and his right hand man Roy Cohn sit at the height of their influence, casting aside democratic norms unchecked - until the Army’s lowest-level lawyer, John G. Adams, stumbles upon the shocking truth behind their power grab, and makes it his mission to reveal this to the public.
Excelsior!
Written by: Alex Convery
Votes: 9
The true story of the meteoric rise (and subsequent fall) of Marvel Comics and the star-crossed creators behind the panel: Stan Lee & Jack Kirby.
