This year features 73 unproduced screenplays. Here are the next 9, indexed alphabetically, from E to G.
These scripts are considered as some of the best "2021: Top Unproduced Screenplays" of the year, according to hundreds of industry professionals who've read and rated them.
For Your Consideration, we have the next 9 scripts cataloged and indexed alphabetically for quick access. Including "False Truth," Connor Barry's "Grizz," 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.
Also, like all of the screenplays on this site, copyrights remain with the writer(s). 8FLiX does not claim ownership of any screenplay, nor were we involved in voting for, or choosing what makes them the "best of" a particular year.
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False Truth
Written by: Thomas BerryIsaac GabaeffNathan Gabaeff
Votes: 7
The life of a cynical San Francisco criminal lawyer at the top of his career unravels when he agrees to represent a father accused of killing his infant son in an extraordinary case that challenges widely accepted medical beliefs, a biased justice system, and his own personal worldview. Based on true events.
The Family Plan
Written by: David Coggeshall
Votes: 7
A former top assassin living incognito as a suburban dad must take his unsuspecting family on the run when his past catches up to him.
Fiendish
Written by: Edgar Castillo
Votes: 9
While meeting her boyfriend’s dysfunctional family at their ancestral manor, a young woman finds herself entangled in a bizarre and terrifying mystery when the family’s patriarch claims to have been cursed by a demon.
The Fire Outside
Written by: Yumiko Fujiwara
Votes: 8
Peter, a seventeen-year-old painter, lives with his controlling mother in a lonely house in the wilderness. When he meets a mysterious stranger, he begins to question the reality he was raised to believe, gathers the courage to leave his mother, and unveils the sinister truth behind his upbringing.
Follow
Written by: Michael Kujak
Votes: 10
When a social media influencer meets a fan at a meet-and-greet, she’s so taken with her cleverness and vulnerability that she invites the fan to intern with her for the summer. At first, they’re an unstoppable team, but soon, the influencer is forced to wonder who she has let into her life.
Four Assassins (And A Funeral)
Written by: Ryan Hooper
Votes: 8
The adoptive daughter of a legendary assassin returns home for his funeral... and finds herself in the crosshairs of her four highly trained, highly dangerous siblings.
From Little Acorns Grow
Written by: Laura Kosann
Votes: 8
After a woman becomes one of the first female presidents of a 1950s publishing house in New York, she draws a former college classmate into her orbit, who soon finds her literary empire is not what it appears to be.
Go Dark
Written by: Josh MarentetteSpencer Marentette
Votes: 8
A team of black-ops soldiers use an experimental technology to travel into the afterlife and rescue their dead teammate.
Grizz
Written by: Connor Barry
Votes: 15 (12th overall in 2021)
A car accident strands a young paramedic in the rugged Pacific Northwest where she is hunted by a ravenous grizzly bear.
