Top scripts written by new and emerging writers. The next 12 indexed S to T.
Welcome to 2020 Top Unproduced Screenplays (Part 7 of 8), curated from industry reader feedback and year-end lists. This page includes 12 titles, indexed from S to T for quick access.
Highlights on this page include The Saturday Night Ghost Club, State Lines, and Trespasser. 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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Saturday Night Ghost Club, The
Written by: Steve Desmond & Michael Sherman
Votes: 17
After being haunted by a terrifying entity, a twelve-year-old boy teams up with his eccentric uncle and three other misfits to form their own ghost club, investigating all the paranormal sites in town so that he can find and confront the ghost that’s tormenting him.
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Sauce, The
Written by: Chaz Hawkins
Votes: 17
A depressed, selfish black man fights for his life after taking a job at a white-owned beauty parlor, whose monstrous owners concocted a wildly popular shampoo that requires a sickening ingredient
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Sharper
Written by: Brian Gatewood & Alessandro Tanaka
Votes: 17
A chain of scam artists goes after one wealthy family with the perfect plan to drain them of their funds. But when love, heartbreak, and jealousy slither their way into the grand scheme, it becomes unclear whether the criminals are conning or the ones being conned.
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Single Point of Failure, A
Written by: Terry Huang
Votes: 9
Journalists race to expose how Boeing knowingly misled regulators, pilots, and airlines to cover up a problematic flight software system on the 737 MAX, leading to two major airplane crashes and the deaths of 346 people. Based on real events.
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St. Simmons
Written by: Greg Wayne
Votes: 11
When a very fat and possibly gay boy from New Orleans is visited by an angel called Barbra Streisand, he sets out on a holy crusade in daytime television to touch and save the soul of every obese person in America before his demons consume him - if only to make his daddy proud. It’s the true gospel of Richard Simmons.
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State Lines
Written by: Rachel Wolf
Votes: 9
When headstrong but well-intentioned college student Sara Jane bails on Senior Spring Break to drive a fourteen-year-old girl to get an abortion, she’s shocked to discover that her passenger is an undercover pro-lifer who has kidnapped her.
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Story
Written by: Emily Siegel
Votes: 10
When a journalist turned stay-at-home mom relocates to Los Angeles to rebuild after a personal trauma, she blurs the lines between fact and fiction... only to find herself at the center of her own story.
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Suncoast
Written by: Laura Chinn
Votes: 14
A awkward teenage outcast comes of age against the backdrop of the hospice where her brother (and coincidentally, Terri Schiavo) are dying.
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Tin Roof Rusted
Written by: Michelle Harper
Votes: 7
When two life-long best friends discover that they’re both pregnant, they promise to embark on their journey together. But with the constant pressure of outsiders, the two struggle midst personal differences and must re-learn that what connected them as children can still be their glue as adults.
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Towers
Written by: Aaron Rabin
Votes: 8
A businessman’s obsession with his competitor leads him down a rabbit hole of self-discovery, fantasy, and delusion.
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Trespasser
Written by: Gabe Hobson
Votes: 8
A father and daughter living in remote isolation must fight for survival after aliens arrive seeking revenge for killing one of their own.
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Two Faced
Written by: Cat Wilkins
Votes: 25 (5th overall in 2020)
A high school senior attempts to get her principal fired after observing racist behavior, but she quickly learns he won’t go down without a fight.
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