This year features 80 (mostly) unproduced screenplays. Here are the next 8, indexed alphabetically, from H to L.
Looking for some weekend reads? I think we can help you with that. Read and download some of the best "2020: Top Unproduced Screenplays" of the year, according to hundreds of industry professionals who've read and rated them.
For Your Consideration, we have the next 8 scripts cataloged and indexed alphabetically for quick access. Including Greg Navarro's "Handsome Stranger," the Alex Russell thriller "Lurker," 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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Handsome Stranger
Written by: Greg Navarro
Votes: 7
Based on the incredible true story of serial killer Paul John Knowles and the week he spent with British journalist Sandy Fawkes in the midst of a murderous killing spree.
Headhunter
Written by: Sophie Dawson
Votes: 29 (1st overall in 2020)
A high-functioning cannibal selects his victims based on their Instagram popularity, but finds his habits shaken by a man who wants to be eaten.
Here Come the Bandits
Written by: Ethan Dawes
Votes: 8
Mickey Bradley, a wildly talented minor league baseball player in his early twenties who returns home to Los Angeles after an injury and coaches a little league team full of misfits who remind him why he fell in love with baseball in the first place. And there's a sweet romance in there too.
High Society
Written by: Noga Pnueli
Votes: 9
A depressed, progressive woman stuck in a conservative small Texas town starts micro-dosing the entire town with marijuana to make them all get along.
Horsegirl
Written by: Lauren Meyering
Votes: 9
Living under the full time care of her cancer-stricken mother, a twenty-six-year-old, socially awkward, horse-obsessed woman attempts to prove her independence by winning a hobbyhorse competition.
I.S.S.
Written by: Nick Shafir
Votes: 7
At any given moment in time there are roughly six astronauts living on the International Space Station (ISS). The station itself is divided into two segments one half Russian, one half American. When a world war event occurs on Earth, America and Russia find themselves on opposing sides. As such, both nations secretly contact their astronauts aboard the ISS and give them instructions to take control of the station by any means necessary. The six astronauts must each secretly choose between their friendships with each other and their allegiance to their country.
If You Were the Last (2023)
Written by: Angela Bourassa
Votes: 25 (4th overall in 2020)
Two astronauts who think they’ve been lost in space forever fall in love, becoming content with their isolated lives, only to suddenly have to return to Earth. IMDb
Lurker
Written by: Alex Russell
Votes: 11
An obsessed fan maneuvers his way into the inner circle of his hip hop idol and will stop at nothing to stay in.
