The top scripts written by new and emerging writers. The next 14 indexed C to F.
Welcome to 2023 Top Unproduced Screenplays (Part 2 of 6), curated from industry reader feedback and year-end lists. This page includes 14 titles, indexed from C to F for quick access.
Highlights on this page include Carousel, Displacement, and Forbidden Fruits. Use the table of contents to jump straight to a script block.
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Carousel
Written by: Rachel Lambert
Votes: 18
A family doctor in East Cleveland juggles his personal life, as he reconnects with an old flame, deals with his teenage daughter’s problems, and selling his family’s medical practice.
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Chaperones
Written by: Sarah Rothschild
Votes: 10
A single dad tries to bond with his teenage daughter by chaperoning her field trip, only to have to save the world (and possibly her virginity) when an ancient evil is unleashed.
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Crowd, The
Written by: Jack Heller
Votes: 10
In a claustrophobic race against time, a woman must unravel the mystery behind a malevolent crowd before she succumbs to their relentless pursuit.
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Dickens vs. Andersen
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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Didier
Written by: Jackson Kellard
Votes: 24 (5th overall in 2023)
The inspiring true story of international soccer icon Didier Drogba and his efforts to end a bloody civil war in his home country of Ivory Coast; not just with the skill of his feet, but also with the power of his voice.
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Die Fast
Written by: Julian Meiojas
Votes: 9
Following a severe, soon to be fatal, brain injury during a violent attack, an NYPD sergeant embarks on a harrowing journey of vengeance, which leaves her only a few hours of adrenaline-bursting consciousness to hunt down those who took her daughter and killed her husband before she dies.
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Displacement
Written by: Chiara Atik
Votes: 7
What’s worse than a cruise? Being a twenty-seven-year-old single woman chaperoning your ninety something grandparents on one, right after a crippling break-up.
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Down Came the Rain
Written by: Katie Found
Votes: 9
When a woman gives birth to a spider, she begins to question her unraveling reality and the psychological and arachnid horrors of postpartum motherhood.
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Ferocious
Written by: Marc Bloom
Votes: 8
A team of financially desperate hotel employees embark on a deadly treasure hunt to recover priceless diamonds from a wrecked yacht in the middle of “The Red Triangle,” the world’s most dangerous hunting ground for great white sharks.
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Final Score, The
Written by: Will Hettinger
Votes: 11
Two FBI agents are pitted against a crew of bank robbers–and each other–as they grapple with order and chaos inside their own department and home lives.
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First You Hear Them
Written by: Sean Harrigan
Votes: 19 (10th overall in 2023)
A group of twenty-somethings try the 'perfect drug' for the first time. It’s only when they come down from the euphoric high that the hauntings begin: First you hear them. Then you see them. Then they come for you.
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Fistmas
Written by: Jack Waz
Votes: 14
In order to propose to the girl of his dreams, a lovestruck guy must first survive her hometown’s annual Christmas fighting tournament.
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Foragers
Written by: Sam Boyer
Votes: 19 (11th overall in 2023)
When the illegitimate daughter of a Portland billionaire goes missing, her loved ones turn to Juno and Andi, local homesteaders and members of The Foragers–a grassroots network of experts dedicated to finding the lost and bringing them home.
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Forbidden Fruits
Written by: Meredith Alloway & Lily Houghton
Votes: 20 (8th overall in 2023)
Free People employee Apple secretly runs a witchy femme cult in the basement of the mall store after hours with fellow fruits Cherry and Fig. But when new hire Pumpkin challenges their ‘girl boss’ ways, the women are forced to face their own poisons or succumb to a bloody fate. Based on Lily Houghton’s stage play: Of The Woman Came The Beginning Of Sin And Through Her We All Die.
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