The top screenplays written by new and prominent writers. The next 15 indexed N to R.
Welcome to 2024 Top Unproduced Screenplays (Part 4 of 6), curated from industry reader feedback and year-end lists. This page includes 15 titles, indexed from N to R for quick access.
Highlights on this page include Nasty, Old Souls, and One Night Only (voted the best unproduced script in 2024). 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.
Did You Know? Some of the scripts listed here may have since been optioned and produced. However, at the time of "voting" they were not.
Need context on what “unproduced” means and how this section works? Start with the overview.
Nasty
Written by: Isabella Jarosz
Votes: 22
After an injury sidelines Dylan’s ability to train for the Olympics, the determined gymnast must regain the trust of her demanding coach while facing off against a prodigious new competitor threatening to eclipse her place in the spotlight.
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NDA
Written by: Audrey Ellis Fox
Votes: 9
Through a maddening day of mediation for an office harassment claim she filed, the clock is ticking on Dana as she questions the price of her silence, sanity, and the truth.
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Old Souls
Written by: Hannah Stoddard & Jenny Ulmer
Votes: 13
A trio of sassy, elderly women receive a unique offer from Death for a week of youth in exchange for their lives.
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Onboarding!
Written by: Jackson Kellard
Votes: 10
When a group of new hires get invited to their company’s corporate retreat, things quickly take a turn as they discover the only way to land the job is to survive the weekend. Literally.
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One Night Only
Written by: Travis Braun
Votes: 60 (1st overall in 2024)
Two strangers scramble to find someone to sleep with on the one night of the year when premarital sex is legal.
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Out There
Written by: Kate Folk
Votes: 12
Fresh off a breakup, Meg is thrilled to meet Roger, who seems like the perfect man: disarmingly handsome, sweet, and obsessed with her. But she’ll soon discover that a disturbing secret lies behind Roger’s perfection, and will have to decide how far she’s willing to go on behalf of true love–even if the person she loves happens to be fake. Based on the short stories "Out There" and "Big Sur" by Kate Folk.
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Over Asking
Written by: Caroline Dries
Votes: 17
After a chance encounter with a powerful female litigator, a seemingly perfect couple begin to ask questions about marriage, power, gender, and sex.
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Paparazzo
Written by: Christian Nilsson
Votes: 13
Desperate for fast cash to help his ailing mother, an opportunistic outcast partners with a wily paparazzo who entangles them in a homicide involving young celebutantes.
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Payroll to Meet, A
Written by: Joseph Sloman
Votes: 9
Based on David Whitford’s best-selling book chronicling the true story of college sports’ greatest scandal, a Dallas real estate tycoon spearheads the rise-and-fall of SMU football’s Pony Express.
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Playdate
Written by: Marie Østerbye
Votes: 39 (2nd overall in 2024)
When taking her daughter to a playdate at a new friend’s house, Alice suddenly comes face to face with her childhood bully, Katrine. An evening of seemingly polite dinner conversation and catching up turns into a night of psychological warfare as the two women reveal the scars of the past and the wounds of the present while their two young daughters play mind games of their own.
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Ride or Die
Written by: Alexander Vargas
Votes: 10
A debt-ridden Peloton instructor finds his entire class held hostage by a bomber during one of his live-in-studio classes.
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Ripe!
Written by: Kerry Furrh & Olivia Mitchell
Votes: 9
Nothing says "it's complicated" like breaking your crush’s arm. Set in rural Spain against the backdrop of a passionate soccer rivalry, the story follows young protagonists Sophie and Gloria as they navigate their relationship.
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Road Test
Written by: Kris Bertin & Naben Ruthnum
Votes: 13
A young woman long overdue in getting her driver’s license finally takes her road test, only to find herself receiving direction from a psychotic instructor who wants her dead.
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Road to Cold Valley, The
Written by: Arun Croll
Votes: 10
In search of a lost family heirloom, a graduate student and his friends take a road trip to the ruins of the remote Japanese American internment camp where his ancestors were incarcerated during World War II. But after a car breakdown and a series of misunderstandings, the group must fight for their lives as they are stalked across the desert at night by an unhinged, racist mechanic.
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Rot
Written by: Geo Bradley
Votes: 12
Haunted by the death of his hoarder mother, an antisocial man suffering from obsessive compulsions takes work as a trauma cleaner in hopes of facing his past, but the job soon begins to infest and unravel his mental state.
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