The top scripts written by new and emerging writers. The next 11 indexed J to O.
Welcome to 2022 Top Unproduced Screenplays (Part 4 of 7), curated from industry reader feedback and year-end lists. This page includes 11 titles, indexed from J to O for easy access.
Highlights on this page include Jambusters, Madden, and Oh the Humanity. Use the table of contents to jump straight to a script block.
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Jambusters
Written by: Filipe Coutinho
Votes: 17
A mystery about what paper jams can teach us about life. After an inexperienced detective starts investigating a death at the Paper Jam department of a major corporation on the verge of its centennial, she unwittingly embarks on a life-altering spiritual journey that unearths her small town’s dark secrets.
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Jerry!
Written by: Greg Roque
Votes: 8
One man ran what was declared to be the worst TV show of all-time. Responsible for the degradation of American society. All while topping Oprah in the ratings. This is the over the top, insane true story of how Jerry Springer went from ambitious young attorney, to the Mayor of Cincinnati, to the undisputed King of Trash TV. And along the way, accidentally helping to create the world we live in today.
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Jingle Bell Heist
Written by: Abby McDonald
Votes: 12
At the height of the holiday season, two strangers team up to rob one of New York’s most famous department stores while accidentally falling in love.
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Let's Go Again
Written by: Colin Bannon
Votes: 12
When her domineering director makes her film the same scene 148 times on the final night of an exhausting shoot, actress Annie Long must fight to keep her own sanity as she tries to decipher what is real, and what is part of his twisted game.
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Life of the Party
Written by: Julie Mandel Folly & Hannah Murphy
Votes: 7
In this contemporary reimagining of Frankenstein, two teenage feminists struggle to create the perfect boyfriend, only to watch their experiment deteriorate as he succumbs to the ultimate perpetrator of casual high school misogyny: the football team.
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Madden
Written by: Cambron Clark
Votes: 19 (7th overall in 2022)
After being forced into retirement by the Oakland Raiders, fiery former NFL head coach John Madden teams up with a mild-mannered Harvard programmer to rewrite his fading legacy by building the world’s first football video game. Based on a true story.
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Marriage Bracket
Written by: Liv Auerbach & Daisygreen Stenhouse
Votes: 6
Ten years after a group of girlfriends bet on which of them would be the last to get married, their adult lives and relationships are completely upended when they discover the $80 they drunkenly invested in Bitcoin is now worth $5.2 million.
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Match Cut
Written by: Will Lowell
Votes: 11
While filming on location in Rome, a movie stuntman is mistaken for an infamous assassin, leading to 48 hours of madness as he’s chased through the city by both gangsters and police.
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Mega Action Hit
Written by: Sean Tidwell
Votes: 11
After Hollywood’s leading action star hits his head on set and wakes up thinking he’s a real-life action hero, he embarks on an international mission to track down a real stolen nuke before it’s too late.
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Midnight Pool, The
Written by: Jonathan Easley
Votes: 14
Burdened by the loss of his wife to a suicide cult, an embittered investigative journalist infiltrates an elite secret society, only to find something far more sinister.
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Oh the Humanity
Written by: Gillian Weeks
Votes: 15
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