The top scripts written by new and emerging writers. The first 11 indexed A to B.
Welcome to 2022 Top Unproduced Screenplays (Part 1 of 7), curated from industry reader feedback and year-end lists. This page includes 11 titles, indexed from A to B for easy access.
Highlights on this page include The Americano, Below, and Break Point. Use the table of contents to jump straight to a script block.
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42.6 Years
Written by: Seth Reiss
Votes: 7
After waking up from a failed experimental lifesaving procedure in which he was cryogenically frozen for 42.6 years, a young man realizes he wants his ex-girlfriend back. He’ll have to overcome the fact that while he hasn’t aged a day, she’s lived an entire life without him.
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Americano, The
Written by: Nico Bellamy & Chase Pestano
Votes: 12
An everyday guy who accidentally starts working as a barista inside the CIA headquarters building gets lured into a spy mission by a beautiful secret agent, known only to him as Caramel Macchiato.
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An Oakland Holiday
Written by: Yudho Aditya & Emma Dudley
Votes: 8
When a neglected and lonely Southeast Asian Princess goes undercover in an Oakland high school to live out her dream of being a normal teen, she discovers that happy endings come with many hard lessons about life, love, and humility.
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Baby Boom
Written by: Jack Waz
Votes: 17 (10th overall in 2022)
When her sister’s gender reveal party triggers the apocalypse, a woman and her husband have to prove to themselves, and the world, that they’re responsible enough to save it.
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Beachwood
Written by: Briggs Watkins & Wes Watkins
Votes: 20 (5th overall in 2022)
Shunned by elite society as a member of the gig economy, a sociopathic dog walker infiltrates an exclusive L.A. community with designs of reaching the top of the neighborhood’s social ladder.
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Below
Written by: Geoff Tock & Greg Weidman
Votes: 6
Fresh out of a spell in prison a man attempts to set his life right by working a mysterious job that requires him to seek out life forms hidden amongst us.
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Better Luck Next Time
Written by: Kristen Tepper
Votes: 8
Two best friends run a successful underground service taking womens’ toxic exes on humiliating dates, but their friendship is put to the ultimate test when an old mark plots his revenge.
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Black Dogs
Written by: Kieran Turner
Votes: 6
Based on the novel by Jason Burhmester. In 1973, Led Zeppelin was robbed of nearly a quarter million dollars in cash while playing a series of concerts in New York City. The case was never solved. We follow four young friends from the streets of Baltimore as they attempt to pull off what is possibly the most brazen heist in Rock & Roll history.
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Black Kite
Written by: Dan Bulla
Votes: 6
After a devastating wildfire wipes out a small California town, a teenage girl is missing and presumed dead. A year later, an obsessive mother and cynical arson investigator begin to suspect that she’s still alive...and in the clutches of a predator.
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Boy Houdini, The
Written by: Matthew Tennant
Votes: 12
New York, 1889. When young street urchin and aspiring magician Harry Houdini discovers a mysterious puzzle-box, he must use his talent for illusion and escape to unlock the box’s powerful secrets and keep it from the hands of a vengeful occult sorcerer hot on his tail.
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Break Point
Written by: Zachary Joel Johnson
Votes: 7
Courted by colleges and sponsors alike, a burnt-out tennis prodigy fights to maintain dominance against her Academy rival as she hurtles toward the existential decision of turning Pro–a choice that will force her to double down on her dream or walk away from the future she’s fought for.
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