This year features 80 (mostly) unproduced screenplays. Here are the final 8, indexed from U to Z.
These scripts are considered as some of the best "2020: Top Unproduced Screenplays" of the year, according to hundreds of industry professionals who've read and rated them.
They're cataloged and indexed alphabetically for quick access. For Your Consideration, the final batch of 8 scripts. Including Perry Janes' "The U.S.P.S.," Brett Melnick's comedy, "Yom Kippur," 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.
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The U.S.P.S.
Written by: Perry Janes
Votes: 11
Following in his murdered mother’s footsteps, Michael Griffiths enlists in the United States Postal Service... only to discover a mail route full of surprises and a job that means maybe, just maybe, saving the world.
Uncle Wick
Written by: Gabe Delahaye
Votes: 8
An action comedy wherein Benji Stone, a lovable but deeply unpopular sixteen year old, is pulled into an international assassination plot by his uncle, a retired undercover assassin charged with babysitting Benji for the weekend.
Viceland
Written by: Chris Parizo
Votes: 9
The true story of how Vice magazine grew from a free magazine in Montreal into a multi billion dollar media empire, making two of its founders multi-millionaires while the third founder was kicked out and went on to modernize the white supremacist movement by creating the Proud Boys.
Video Nasty
Written by: Chris Thomas Devlin
Votes: 18
Three teenagers who rent a cursed VHS tape are pulled into an 80s slasher movie that threatens to trap them forever.
War Face
Written by: Mitchell Lafortune
Votes: 7
A female U.S. Army Special Agent is sent to a remote, all-male outpost in Afghanistan to investigate accusations of war crimes. But when a series of mysterious events jeopardize her mission and the unit’s sanity, she must find the courage to survive something far more sinister.
What If? (n.k.a. Anything's Possible) (2022)
Written by: Ximena García Lecuona
Votes: 8
An unassertive seventeen year old turns his high school on its head when he asks out his crush, a transgender classmate. IMDb
The Women of Route 40
Written by: Erin Kathleen
Votes: 7
A struggling single mother must confront dangerous forces - and sins of her past - when her world collides with that of a serial killer. Inspired by the true story of Delaware’s only serial murderer, the Route 40 killer.
Yom Kippur
Written by: Brett Melnick
Votes: 7
After getting high on the night of Yom Kippur, three distant cousins wake up with muddled minds and empty stomachs as they find themselves in the middle of a kidnapping and a major drug ring.
