This year features 73 unproduced screenplays. Here are the next 10, indexed alphabetically, from C to D.
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For Your Consideration, we have the next 10 scripts cataloged and indexed alphabetically for quick access. From Jason Benjamin's and Jessica Granger's "Candlewood," Rebecca Webb's "Divorce Party," and everything in between.
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A word about voting... and other important stuff about the "best of" 2021 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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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.
Carriage Hill
Written by: Emi MochizukiCarrie 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.
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.
Challengers (2023)
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. IMDb
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.
The College Dropout
Written by: Thomas AguilarMichael Ballin
Votes: 13
A young Kanye West’s intimate journey to create his seminal first album that reinvented hip hop music.
Cruel Summer
Written by: Leigh CesiroErica Matlin
Votes: 10
During the summer of 1998, five camp counselors accidentally kill a stranger in the woods.
The Dark
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.
The Devil Herself
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.
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.
