2023 Top Unproduced Screenplays (Part 1: # to B)
Top scripts written by new and emerging writers. The first 13 indexed # to B.
Welcome to 2023 Top Unproduced Screenplays (Part 1 of 6), curated from industry reader feedback and year-end lists. This page includes 13 titles, indexed from # to B for easy access.
Highlights on this page include 10/24/02, Bad Boy, and Boxman. Use the table of contents to jump straight to a script block.
If you’re a writer, read like a craftsperson: track how the premise is framed, how scenes turn, and how quickly the pages earn your attention.
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10/24/02
Written by: Connor McKnight
Votes: 16
On one rainy night in October, a man checks into the Mooncrest Motel. He never leaves. A real time, single-location thriller in the aftermath of a heist at Area 51.
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8 Habits of Highly Murderous People
Written by: Michael Boyle
Votes: 7
Psychologist Dr. Martin Park specializes in working with clients trying to curtail extreme violent urges. However, when a series of brutally murdered bodies are discovered in his small New England hometown, it’s up to Martin to figure out which of his patients is responsible.
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Adults in the Room, The
Written by: Jake Disch
Votes: 8
On November 1, 2022, FTX was valued at $32 billion. On November 11, 2022, it filed for bankruptcy. This is the incredible true story of the meteoric rise and catastrophic fall of FTX and its enigmatic founder, Sam Bankman-Fried.
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American Dreams
Written by: Tricia Lee & Corey Brown
Votes: 7
In the not-so-distant future, an Asian-American woman works at a company where you can hire people to write your dreams. When one of her clients mysteriously dies, she realizes that those who have the power to write your dreams, also have the power to write your nightmares.
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Backcountry
Written by: Kevin Sheridan
Votes: 11
Once the future of extreme skiing, Brooks Provence is approached to ski the mountain that nearly ended his life two decades ago–this time alongside a young skier on the brink of stardom. But when disaster falls, Brooks must overcome his past and accomplish the impossible in order to save the lives of those he loves most.
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Bad Boy
Written by: Travis Braun
Votes: 49
Votes: 24 (1st overall in 2023)
A rescue dog suspects his loving new owner is a serial killer.
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Better Half
Written by: Gaelyn Golde
Votes: 15
A codependent woman unravels when her best friend gets a boyfriend.
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Beyond the Grave
Written by: Maximiliano Hernández
Votes: 9
Three people at different points of the immigrant experience come together when the mother of a 10-year-old musical prodigy is arrested in an ICE raid.
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Blasphemous
Written by: Luke Piotrowski
Votes: 9
An inexperienced priest and a charismatic possessed woman form a dark and dangerous bond while on the run from sinister forces within the Catholic Church.
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Blood Rush
Written by: Andrew Ferguson
Votes: 11
In response to a mysterious rise in Miami gang violence, a meticulous FBI agent gets recruited by a covert operations unit, only to discover the enemy they are fighting may not be human.
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Blow Up the Chat
Written by: Amos Vernon & Nunzio Randazzo
Votes: 7
When their embarrassing, sometimes filthy, possibly cancellable group chat falls into the wrong hands, a group of dudes must go on a madcap scavenger hunt around town to appease a mysterious blackmailer.
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Boxman
Written by: Adam Yorke
Votes: 7
After a botched bank heist leaves nineteen people locked inside a state-of-the- art vault, the FBI recruits the world’s foremost box-man from federal prison so he can break them out before they suffocate inside.
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Boy Falls from Sky
Written by: Hunter Toro
Votes: 9
An anxious playwright finds himself tangled in a web of deceit, injury, and intellectual property as he adapts his first Broadway musical, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Inspired by a true story.
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