2021 Top Unproduced Screenplays (Part 2: C to D)
Top scripts written by new and emerging writers. The next 10 indexed C to D.
Welcome to 2021 Top Unproduced Screenplays (Part 2 of 7), curated from industry reader feedback and year-end lists. This page includes 10 titles, indexed from C to D for quick access.
Highlights on this page include Candlewood, Challengers, and Divorce Party. Use the table of contents to jump straight to a script block.
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Candlewood
Written by: Jessica Granger
Votes: 11
In 1992 a seaplane crash in a lakefront community sparks a relationship between three young sisters and the mysterious, injured female pilot.
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Carriage Hill
Written by: Emi Mochizuki & Carrie Wilson
Votes: 7
A pregnant couple hoping to start their family in the suburbs find themselves embroiled in a decades long mystery which threatens to shatter their American dream.
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Cauliflower
Written by: Daniel Jackson
Votes: 32 (1st overall in 2021)
Under the cruel guidance of a mysterious coach, an ambitious high school wrestler struggles to become a state champion while battling a bizarre infection in his ear that both makes him dominant in his sport and threatens his sanity.
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Challengers
Written by: Justin Kuritzkes
Votes: 9
Framed around a single tennis match at a low-level pro tournament, three players who knew each other when they were teenagers — a world-famous grand slam winner, his ambitious wife/coach, and their old friend who’s now a burnout ranked 201 in the world — reignite old rivalries on and off the court.
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Chicago for One
Written by: Madeleine Paul
Votes: 9
Based on Robbie Chernow’s hilarious viral solo adventure, a newly heart-broken groomsman takes Chicago by storm celebrating a solo Bachelor Party Weekend after the rest of the party — including the groom — get stuck over 700 miles away.
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College Dropout, The
Written by: Thomas Aguilar & Michael Ballin
Votes: 13
A young Kanye West’s intimate journey to create his seminal first album that reinvented hip hop music.
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Cruel Summer
Written by: Leigh Cesiro & Erica Matlin
Votes: 10
During the summer of 1998, five camp counselors accidentally kill a stranger in the woods.
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Dark, The
Written by: Chad Handley
Votes: 7
When stranded on the far end of Manhattan by a mysterious city-wide blackout, a group of inner-city middle schoolers must fight through seemingly supernatural forces to make their way back to their parents in the Bronx.
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Devil Herself, The
Written by: Colin Bannon
Votes: 8
When an elite assassin is sent to the haunted Harz Mountains in Germany on an extraction job she intends to be her last, she quickly learns that the local legends about witchcraft are true and must face a sinister supernatural threat.
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Divorce Party
Written by: Rebecca Webb
Votes: 25 (3rd overall in 2021)
Patricia Ford feels pretty good about trading her South Boston roots for a "perfect" life on New York’s Upper East Side, until everything falls to shit and her raucous girlfriends throw her a Divorce Party at the home she’s about to lose. As the night goes from wild to totally insane, Patricia takes back control of her life.
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