2020 Top Unproduced Screenplays (Part 5: M to O)
Top scripts written by new and emerging writers. The next 11 indexed M to O.
Welcome to 2020 Top Unproduced Screenplays (Part 5 of 8), curated from industry reader feedback and year-end lists. This page includes 11 titles, indexed from M to O for easy access.
Highlights on this page include Magazine Dreams, May December, and Occupied. Use the table of contents to jump straight to a script block.
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Magazine Dreams
Written by: Elijah Bynum
Votes: 9
A Black amateur bodybuilder struggles to find human connection in this exploration of celebrity and violence.
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Man in the Yard, The
Written by: Sam Stefanak
Votes: 14
When a dangerous stranger shows up at her front door, a depressed widow must confront her own past in order to protect her two children.
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Margot
Written by: Emily Adams
Votes: 7
Annie Mills has always known Margot Ellison to be two things: her best friend and a devout Mormon. But as high school graduation nears and Margot starts to crave change, the girls must grapple with the fear that growing up might require growing alone.
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May December
Written by: Samy Burch
Votes: 10
Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under the pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past.
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Mouse
Written by: Kelly O'Sullivan
Votes: 9
When seventeen-year old Minnie’s best friend Callie is killed in an accident, she struggles to find an identity of her own and forms a complicated friendship with Callie’s grieving mother.
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Murder in the White House
Written by: Jonathan Stokes
Votes: 9
The President is murdered during a private dinner, and Secret Service agent Mia Pine has until morning to discover which guest is the killer before a peace agreement fails and leads to war.
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My Dear You
Written by: Meghan Kennedy
Votes: 11
Based on a short story by Rachel Khong. A love story set in the afterlife about our struggle to let go of the past, even when our present is heaven... literally. Tess keeps searching for the love of her life without realizing he’s right there next to her the whole time, helping her look.
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Nanny
Written by: Nikyata Jusu
Votes: 9
Aisha is an undocumented nanny caring for a privileged child. As she prepares for the arrival of her only son, who she left behind in her native country, a violent supernatural presence invades her reality, jeopardizing the American Dream she’s carefully pieced together.
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Neither Confirm Nor Deny
Written by: Dave Collard
Votes: 26 (3rd overall in 2020)
An adaptation of David Sharp’s book The CIA’s Greatest Covert Operation that chronicles the clandestine CIA operation that risked igniting WWIII by recovering a nuclear-armed Soviet Sub, the K-129, that sunk to the bottom of the ocean in 1968.
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Neutral Corner, The
Written by: Justin Piasecki
Votes: 13
A Nevada court judge who moonlights reffing high-profile boxing matches must face his demons when he’s assigned to the Olympic fight of an ex-con he’d previously sentenced for murder.
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Occupied
Written by: Tara Cavanagh
Votes: 11
When a tactless Nordstrom’s store manager denies two trans women access to the bathroom, Fran and Althea seek restitution and occupy the ladies room in protest.
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