This year features 76 unproduced screenplays. Here are the next 13, indexed alphabetically from P to R.
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Read and download some of the best "2023: Top Unproduced Screenplays" of the year, according to hundreds of industry professionals who've read and rated them.
For Your Consideration, we have the next group of 13 scripts cataloged and indexed alphabetically for quick access. From "Palette" by Zach Strauss, to Tommy White and Miles Hubley's "Runner," and everything in between.
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Some of the scripts listed here may have since been optioned and produced. However, at the time of "voting" they were not.
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Palette
Written by: Zach Strauss
Votes: 9
A woman who discovers she is suffering from severe synesthesia gets recruited into the secretive, cult-like industry of color design by a mysterious corporation but then uncovers the bloody, dark, and twisted reality of what it really takes to make the world’s next great hues.
Patsy
Written by: Filipe Coutinho
Votes: 21 (7th overall in 2023)
The untold and unfiltered true story of legendary country singer Patsy Cline, from her humble beginnings in Virginia to her untimely death at the height of her fame.
The Peasant
Written by: Will Dunn
Votes: 12
In the 14th Century, a lone shepherd rages against a company of mercenary knights after they ransack his peaceful peasant community, proving that he is more than he seems.
The Pentester
Written by: Jesse Quiñones
Votes: 12
When a pentester with a perfect track record for breaching his clients’ security systems takes an unusually high-paying job, his success proves to be in vain as he finds himself in the middle of a deadly conspiracy where the only way out is forward.
People Walk Dogs Late at Night in the Suburbs
Written by: Drake Wootton
Votes: 7
A charming high school math teacher - about to be a father - comes up with a plan to course correct his life after having an affair with his student.
Personal Best
Written by: Ryan Hoang Williams
Votes: 10
Based on the true story of James Hogue, a talented student and long-distance runner who was admitted to Princeton University under the false identity of “Alexi Indris-Santana”–an orphaned, self-educated, teenage ranch hand.
Please Come Back
Written by: Mike George
Votes: 7
A young couple who perform rituals to raise people from the dead get more than they bargained for when they attempt to re-animate a young girl who doesn’t remember how she died.
Polo
Written by: Nika Burnett
Votes: 17
When a young woman returns home from the Navy, she joins a local water polo team and finds herself fighting a new battle.
The Profit
Written by: Andrew Ferguson
Votes: 16
The astonishing true story of how an unknown, evangelical Christian immigrant, Bill Hwang, suffered the greatest loss of wealth in American history, gambling away his $35 billion fortune and jeopardizing the entire financial system in under forty eight hours.
Propel
Written by: Jeremy Marwick
Votes: 7
A commercial diver fights to survive after a boating accident leaves her for dead underwater.
Return to Sender
Written by: Russell Goldman
Votes: 20 (9th overall in 2023)
When a woman experiences delivery scams that grow increasingly personal and strange, she becomes hellbent on discovering her anonymous sender.
Roses
Written by: Evan Twohy
Votes: 8
A married man takes his girlfriend on a romantic getaway to a villa. There is a swimming pool.
Runner
Written by: Tommy WhiteMiles Hubley
Votes: 13
High end courier, Hank Malone, has three hours to transport a liver from LAX to a Santa Barbara hospital for immediate transplant surgery. The recipient? A dying seven-year-old girl with the rarest blood type on the planet. If only the head of the Southland’s most dangerous crime syndicate didn’t need the organ too.
