2023 Top Unproduced Screenplays (Part 3: G to K)
The top scripts written by new and emerging writers. The next 10 indexed G to K.
Welcome to 2023 Top Unproduced Screenplays (Part 3 of 6), curated from industry reader feedback and year-end lists. This page includes 10 titles, indexed from G to K for quick access.
Highlights on this page include The Getaway, Head Games, and Kazan. Use the table of contents to jump straight to a script block.
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Getaway, The
Written by: Mario Kyprianou & Becky Leigh
Votes: 14
A couple on the brink of divorce sets off on a romantic getaway to save their marriage, but when they find that they have inexplicably traveled back in time, they decide to team up to stop their younger selves from ever getting married.
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Great Pretender, The
Written by: Kirill Baru & Eric Zimmerman
Votes: 12
When Tom Hanks, the nicest guy in Hollywood (and someone who looks a lot like him), gets kidnapped, his doppelgänger must step in to save him. In a world of make-believe, it’s hard to know who to trust.
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Harness
Written by: Leigh Janiak
Votes: 7
In the violent world of underground horse racing, a wannabe female jockey and her trainer brother-in-law become entangled in an illicit relationship full of blood, sweat, and sex that pushes the limits of their bodies and the law.
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Head Games
Written by: Colin Liddle
Votes: 25 (4th overall in 2023)
A corporate spy poses as a personal chef to the disgraced founder of a neuroprosthetics firm in order to steal his seismic-shifting new invention from his secluded villa in Greece.
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High Concept
Written by: Alex Kavutskiy & Ryan Perez
Votes: 21 (6th overall in 2023)
In the early 2000s, two totally opposite best friends, Mike (an uptight lawyer) and BJ (a stoner slacker), awake one morning to find that they have swapped bodies, are stuck in a time loop, and are afflicted with many other high-concept comedy premises of that era. Drawing upon their knowledge of those type of movies, Mike & BJ must learn their lesson(s) and get their lives back to normal.
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Hit Me, Baby
Written by: Kurt McLeod
Votes: 17
After Liv, a world-class hitwoman, breaks up with her boyfriend, Martin, he puts out a massive contract on his own life to get her attention. What Martin doesn’t realize is that it’s an open contract with a 48-hour expiration, so now every assassin in the western hemisphere is coming after him. Liv makes a deal to keep him safe until the contract expires, if he pays her out the full bounty. With the clock ticking, the two must elude some of the world’s most prolific killers.
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Hot Mess
Written by: Shanrah Wakefield
Votes: 18
Sandy was once a formidable investigative reporter until a bungled story destroyed her credibility and forced her into the soul-sucking world of tabloid gossip–now her days are spent covering hot mess celebrity Margot Ford. When a disillusioned Sandy is called to Fiji to follow Margot’s latest hijinks, she discovers a surprise about Margot’s real identity, which sends her on an adventure she never imagined, as the two must team up to take down a massive, sinister corporate plot with global implications, all taking place at a luxury island resort.
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If I Had Your Face
Written by: Ran Ran Wang
Votes: 9
When Jo’s best friend, Rina starts dating a white man, she begins transforming into something different: a white woman. Through it all, Jo can’t seem to convince anyone that there is cause for concern. But when three unidentifiable white women turn up dead, Jo realizes that they had all been Asian women who dated the same man, and now that he has Rina in his sights, it’s up to Jo to save her before she becomes his next victim.
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Immune
Written by: Daniel Persitz
Votes: 9
The story of Dr. Maurice Hilleman, the brilliant father of modern vaccines, who by deftly negotiating corporate politics, prevented a deadly pandemic and created the groundbreaking vaccines for measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox and many others that still save eight million lives a year worldwide.
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Kazan
Written by: Chris Parizo
Votes: 9
The story of the tumultuous relationship between Arthur Miller and Elia Kazan–born out of the success of DEATH OF A SALESMAN and destroyed when Elia Kazan named names to the House Committee on Un-American Activities, resulting in two of the greatest works of the 20th century: THE CRUCIBLE and ON THE WATERFRONT.
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